====== Best Practices for Google Meets ======

This page will detail some best practices to use for your Google Meets.\\ 
These best practices will help minimize problems such as students being the first to enter a Meet or calling outbound phones from inside the Meet. 

==== Preventing Students from Preemptively Entering a Meet ====

**It is important to note that the first person to click on the link to the Meet becomes the owner.** To prevent students from entering the class before you and becoming the owner of the Meet, please follow these practices:

  * Make sure you are the last person to leave your Meet. If necessary remove any remaining students from the meet by:

  - On the right, go to People.
  - Point to the person, and then click Back arrow.
  - Click Remove.

  * After the Meet is complete hide the link in Classroom.

  * Reset the link after hiding it.

  * When you go to enter the Meet again, enter it before making it visible to the students.

  * Once you are in then make the Meet visible.

For information on showing/hiding and resetting your Classroom Meet link, see Google's documentation [[https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/9776888#setup-classroom|here.]]

==== Knowing How to Utilize Host Controls ====

It is important that you ensure you have Host Controls when the Meet begins, because if a student becomes owner of the Meet, they can remove other participants. This is usually what generates the "You have been removed from the meeting" message.

Host Controls are denoted by a blue shield icon in the bottom left of the Meet bar.

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=== Quick Access ===

Quick Access is the most important of the Host Controls, as it dictates whether someone needs to ask for permission to join or not. It is a best practice to leave Quick Access off and verify participants as they enter. **You will need to disable Quick Access for each meeting every day, as the setting is not persistent.** 

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