Category Archives: Google Meet

Updates about the Google Meet platform for faculty, staff, and students.

Incoming: Updates to Google Meet begin June 1

Google is rolling out a set of updates to the Meet platform. This includes a revamp of the user interface and several new video chatting features, meaning that the app might look a little different when you next use it. These new features are making the Meet controls simpler, easier to use, and more accessible!

You’ll start seeing these updates as of June 1 (today!). As a user of Google Meet, you don’t have to do a thing; Google rolls out these updates automatically to its user base.

More information about the new features and what you can expect to change can be found in Google’s announcement.

Additionally, until June 10, users will be able to use the “legacy” Google Meet experience if they prefer. Instructions on how to revert to that interface can be found here. On June 11, however, the new interface will be what everyone sees.

Security updates for Google Meet

Like Zoom and Webex before them, Google Meet is improving safety features for hosts and participants. Hosts will have more control over who joins their meetings!

Google is giving hosts something called “Quick access,” which will be the default from now on in meetings.

“Quick access” makes it so that participants in the same domain as the host (i.e., using their @MiamiOH.edu email address to join) do not need to request to join the meeting. However, if the host turns “Quick access” off, every participant will need to request — it will essentially put everyone in a waiting room so that the host can determine who all can enter the meeting.

This feature will be gradually rolled out to our domain on Google’s timetable, but everyone should start seeing the option in their meetings within the next few weeks.

Read more about the update to Google Meet on the G Suite blog.