Ask participants questions in Google Meet

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.

Requirements to use Q&A in Google Meet

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.”

1. On your computer, at the bottom right, click Host Controls .
2. Scroll to Meeting Activities.
3. 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

View and manage questions

Important: All asked questions are included in the Questions report emailed to the moderators after the meeting.

1. On your computer, at the bottom right, click Activities   Q&A.
2. To filter questions, next to "All questions," click Down arrow .
3. 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:
     1. Next to “Popular,” click Down arrow .
     2. Select an option.

View and manage questions on mobile

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:

• Moderation is off by default.

• Hosts can only moderate through the web with a computer.

To turn on moderation as a host after you’ve joined a meeting:

1. On your computer, at the bottom right, click Host Controls.

2. Scroll down to Meeting Activities.

3. To turn on question moderation, turn on Hide each question until a host approves .

To moderate questions:

1. On your computer, find a question marked “Pending approval.”

2. Choose to Approve or Delete the question.

• 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.

1. On your computer, at the bottom right, click Activities Q&A  Ask a question.
2. Enter your question click Post.

Tip: To ask your question anonymously, check the option "Post Anonymously."

Ask a question on mobile

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.

1. Open the email with the questions report.
2. Click the report attachment.

Related resources

• Conduct polls in Google Meet
• Use breakout rooms in Google Meet