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EDIT ADDED A Complete howto on setup for your org https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk8RygAHqdHfjgZ_UovEv3sNfNaYkbJIh EDIT END So I have decided to make my sheets public but before I go full blown with it I'd like to know how much interest there is in this. Each teacher makes a copy of the attendance sheet for themselves and if the main attendance sheet is updated they are notified within their copied sheet to make a new copy. This is a static version so it only updates if I manually add meet data. Our actual one updates itself every hour with the latest information. MAIN DATA SHEET https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZOE3wNXJb8Ddwrl-oFvcRMDLkTEUsnoojImTcHjnjfI/ ATTENANCE SHEET https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W1W_Y8N-C6dpfJ7pzIK2rSYNtzGsgS8CFCm5zRuXViE/

Hi all, we are toying with the idea of setting up google meets for our open evening this term, has anyone done this is it straight forward, any gotchas that you can pass on. All our students have logons so we will not need to generate unique codes for non domain users as they will sit with parents anyway but I worry that one student could log on early on interrupt another slot particularly if there is over run, any pointers as always gratefully recieved Pablo

I am after some advice with regards to Google Meet. Teachers are starting to make use of the system at our school to engage with students remotely. I have some questions that I'm hoping someone will know the answer to. I am aware of the following Google update and guidance, but am after some further clarification based on others' experiences: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/hangouts-meet-edu-updates.html https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/9776888 Question 1 Is there any way to create a nicknamed meeting using Google Calendar? I have come across some guidance elsewhere that suggests that this may be possible if you enter g.co/meet/nickname into the description of the calendar event. However this doesn't appear to work, and students are able to join the meeting using the unique Google Meet URL that's generated for the calendar event at any time. Question 2 Once a Google Meet URL has been generated, e.g. via Google Calendar, is there any way of terminating that meeting? It appears that this URL continues to be usable forever more, with no means of cancelling it. Question 3 What are others' experiences with recording Google Meet meetings, in particular those scheduled using Google Calendar? According to https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9308681 it states that: In the Calendar event If the recording starts during the scheduled meeting time, the recording is automatically linked in the Calendar event. Meeting participants who are in the same organizational unit as the meeting organizer are automatically granted access to the recording. From our testing and experiences, students are automatically granted access to these recordings despite being located in their own organizational unit. Hence the above statement from Google appears to be incorrect. Our teachers would prefer to have control over whether and when these recordings are shared with students. Question 4 It appears that the best method is using Google Classroom, which generates a nicknamed Google Meet. It appears that recordings aren't automatically shared with students, and as long as the teacher is the last person to leave the meeting students cannot join later. Have others had similar experiences? In terms of getting students to join the meeting at an agreed time presumably teachers would create a calendar event, not adding video conferencing, but simply sharing the meet link that is generated by the Google Classroom (e.g. https://meet.google.com/lookup/0123456789)? Question 5 With regards to live stream meetings, is there any way to determine how many students are watching the stream at any given time? Other than asking them to confirm their attendance, or engaging with them during the live stream, by using a Google Form or Google Slides Q&A. Is there any way an admin can subsequently determine how many attendees there were on a live stream using audit logs? Question 6 Presumably if a live stream is recorded, the recording is not automatically shared with view-only guests that have been invited via Google Calendar? As per part 2 from the following article: https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9308630 Apologies for all the questions. We are really keen to get this to work well, and I assume that Google will be adding new functionality to improve the experience over the coming weeks.