Tips to collaborate during video meetings

Important:

• You can't pin things in companion mode. Learn more about companion mode.
• You can only pin things when you join with full audio and video.
• If you use a sign language interpreter, pin the presentation and interpreter at the same time.
• You can pin a participant, presentation, or up to 3 items in Google Meet.
• Hosts and co-hosts can pin up to 3 tiles for other participants.

• Your meeting room: Next to the room, click Pin .
• Participants, presentations, or rooms: Next to the meeting participant, presentation, or room, click Menu   Pin .

Tip: If 3 items are already pinned, the option to pin is grayed out on additional tiles.

To unpin, click Menu   Unpin .

1. Join a Meet video meeting.
2. At the bottom right, click the Meeting details   Copy joining info . 
3. Paste the meeting details in an email, chat, or other app.
4. Click Send.

Tip: To open files attached to the calendar event, click Attachments .

Learn how to add attachments to calendar events. 

1. In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities   click Questions.
2. At the bottom right, click Ask a question.
3. Enter your question  click Post.
   • To ask your question anonymously, check the option "Post Anonymously."

1. In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities   click Questions.
   • To sort questions by popularity or chronologically, next to "Popular," click Down arrow  and select an option.
   • To view everyone’s questions, click All questions.
   • To view only your questions, click My questions.
   • To upvote a question, on the question, click Upvote .
   • To delete a question, on the question, click Delete .

1. Start or Join a meeting.
2. At the bottom right, click Activities   Whiteboarding. 
3. Select an option:
   • To create a new Jamboard: Click Start a new whiteboard.
   • To open an existing Jamboard from your drive, shared drives, or computer: Click Choose from Drive. 

      Tip: The Jamboard file will open in a new tab and a link is shared automatically via the in-call chat.

1. In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities   click Polls.
2. Click Start a poll. 
3. Enter a question and add options for the poll.
   • Tip: You can let users respond anonymously to Polls. Before you save or launch your poll, turn on Responses appear without names .
4. Choose one:
   • To post your poll, click Launch.
   • To save your poll so you can launch it later, click Save.

   Tip: Polls you save remain listed under Polls for the duration of the meeting. After the call ends, all polls are permanently deleted. Meeting moderators are emailed a polling report at the end of the meeting.

5. After a poll is launched, to vote on your own poll, select one of the optionsclick Vote.

Submit a response for a poll (for meeting participants)

1. In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities   click Polls.
2. In the poll, select your response  click Vote.
   Tip: After you click Vote, you can’t change your response.

1. Open Google Calendar.
2. ClickCreateEventMore options.
3. Add the event details, such as date, time, and description.
4. Add the guests that can fully participate in the video meeting. 
   • All guests added to this event can be seen, heard, and present their screen.
   • People from other organizations and trusted domains can be added. Only people in your organization can record and control streaming.
5. Next to Join with Google Meet, click the Down arrowAdd live stream.
6. Click Add live stream again to confirm.
7. Click SaveSend.
   Note: Streaming does not automatically start. During the meeting, at the bottom right, click, click Live StreamingStart streaming.

Learn more at the Google Meet Help Center