Important:
- When you create a Q&A in a live stream, it’s automatically available to both meeting participants and live stream participants. Hosts can disable Q&A for live stream participants from their computer.
- You can have a maximum of 500 questions per Q&A.
Important: Q&A in Google Meet is available for users with these Google Workspace editions:
- Essentials
- Business Standard
- Business Plus
- Enterprise Starter
- Enterprise Essentials
- Enterprise Standard
- Enterprise Plus
- Education Plus
- Teaching and Learning Upgrade
- G Suite Business
- Nonprofits
- Workspace Individual
Ask participants questions in a Google Meet meeting
Anyone in a meeting can ask questions. The questions show until they're deleted or hidden.
After a meeting, the moderator gets a detailed report of all the questions.
Anyone who schedules or starts a meeting will be the meeting host. If you transfer or schedule a meeting on someone else's calendar, the other person could become the meeting host. By default, there's only one meeting host per meeting but you can add up to 25 co-hosts once inside the meeting.
Turn on Q&A
Important:
- Q&A turns on automatically for all users except Google Workspace for Education users. For Education users, Meeting hosts can turn on Q&A during the meeting.
- Hosts can disable Q&A from a pop-up when they start the live stream from their computer or turn it off under “Host controls.”
- On your computer, at the bottom right, click Host Controls .
- Scroll to Meeting Activities.
- Turn on Allow questions in Q&A .
Tip: By default, questions can be asked anonymously. To stop this, turn off Allow anonymous questions (Q&A) .
Turn on Q&A on mobile- Tap More controls Host Controls .
- Scroll to Meeting Activities.
- Turn on Allow questions in Q&A .
Tip: By default, questions can be asked anonymously. To stop this, turn off Allow anonymous questions (Q&A)
View and manage questions
Important: All asked questions are included in the Questions report emailed to the moderators after the meeting.
- On your computer, at the bottom right, click Activities Q&A.
- To filter questions, next to "All questions," click Down arrow .
- Select an option:
- To delete a question: On any question, click Delete .
- Tip: You can only view deleted and anonymous deleted questions in the report, not in the actual meeting.
- To upvote a question: On the question, click Upvote .
- To hide a question: On the question, click Hide .
- To mark a question answered: On the question, click Mark as answered .
- Tip: Mark a question answered so participants know it was answered.
- To sort questions by order or most upvotes:
- Next to “Popular,” click Down arrow .
- Select an option.
- To delete a question: On any question, click Delete .
Important: All asked questions are included in the Questions report emailed to the moderators after the meeting.
- Tap More controls Activities Q&A.
- To filter questions, next to "All questions," tap Down arrow .
- Select an option:
- To delete a question: On any question, tap Delete .
- Tip: You can only view deleted and anonymous deleted questions in the report, not in the actual meeting.
- To upvote a question: On the question, tap Upvote .
- To hide a question: On the question, tap Hide .
- To mark a question answered: On the question, tap Mark as answered .
- Tip: Mark a question answered so participants know it was answered.
- To sort questions by order or most upvotes:
- Next to “Popular”, tap Down arrow .
- Select an option.
- To delete a question: On any question, tap Delete .
Moderate Q&A questions
During meetings and in livestreams, to review the questions before they’re shown to the meeting attendees moderate Q&A:
Important:
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Moderation is off by default.
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Hosts can only moderate through the web with a computer.
To turn on moderation as a host after you’ve joined a meeting:
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On your computer, at the bottom right, click Host Controls.
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Scroll down to Meeting Activities.
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To turn on question moderation, turn on Hide each question until a host approves .
To moderate questions:
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On your computer, find a question marked “Pending approval.”
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Choose to Approve or Delete the question.
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Tip: A host can’t bulk approve questions.
Tip: A host can turn off question moderation from Host Controls during the meeting. Questions already asked won’t be affected by the change.
Ask a question
When you ask a question, everyone in the meeting gets a notification.
When you ask a question anonymously, details are hidden from:
- Other meeting participants
- The moderators
- Your Workspace admin
The question is shared in its entirety with Google. The question is later anonymized or deleted, subject to our data retention policy.
- On your computer, at the bottom right, click Activities Q&A Ask a question.
- Enter your question click Post.
Tip: To ask your question anonymously, check the option "Post Anonymously."
Ask a question on mobile- Tap More controls Activities Q&A Ask a question.
- Enter your question tap Post.
Tip: To ask your question anonymously, check the option "Post Anonymously."
View a questions report
After the meeting, a question report is emailed to the moderator. The email includes a list of questions that were asked, hidden, moderator approved, or deleted along with the names of the people who posted the questions.
- Open the email with the questions report.
- Click the report attachment.