Add co-hosts in Google Meet

Important:

• Based on your Google Workspace edition, host management might be on or off by default. Host management can be turned on or off from inside a meeting. Workspace admins can set up defaults for their domain.
• Participants must be in the meeting to become a host. Classroom meeting hosts can make teachers co-hosts before a meeting.
• Co-hosts can turn host management off. Only the main host can re-enable host management for all other hosts.
• Participants can't be appointed or removed as co-hosts from breakout rooms. Participants must return to the main room to be granted hosting privileges.
• Only the main host receives meeting info, such as attendance reports or polling details, but they can share meeting info with other co-hosts.
• Host management settings are saved for any recurring meetings or meetings that reuse the same meeting code. Appointed co-hosts will need to be reappointed for any recurring meetings.
• We recommend that you turn on host management settings before you use breakout rooms. Settings for host management can't be changed after breakout rooms are live. This prevents the designation of co-hosts who can run breakout rooms or use meeting safety features.
• For meetings with host management switched off, anyone inside your organisation can record a meeting. To allow anyone outside your organisation to record a meeting, you must promote them to co-host.  If host management is on, only the main host and promoted co-hosts can record a meeting.

Share meeting artifacts with co-hosts

Certain Google Meet features generate meeting artifacts, which:

• Are automatically shared with the primary meeting host.
• Include Meet recordings, attendance reports, polling reports and other documents, etc.

If you want co-hosts to get meeting artifacts, you must:

• Have host management turned on before somebody can be added as a co-host.
• Add them as co-hosts when you set up or edit the event in Google Calendar.
• Select the artifact sharing tick box when you add co-hosts in Google Calendar.  

Important:

• If you promote someone to a co-host during an ongoing meeting, they won't get meeting artifacts for that particular meeting. You must add them as a co-host when you set up or edit the event in Google Calendar.
• If a participant's co-host status is removed during the meeting, they still get meeting artifacts. They won't receive artifacts for any future meetings that use the same code.
• Co-hosts added to a series of ongoing meetings get meeting artifacts for future meetings that use the same code.
• For Google Classroom meetings, all co-teachers are recognised as co-hosts and automatically get meeting artifacts. Their co-host status can't be removed within Google Classroom. 
  • If a user is removed as a co-teacher, they no longer receive meeting artifacts.