Google Meet has now caught up with other videoconferencing and collaboration platforms with the company’s rollout of custom virtual backgrounds for video calls. Google in a Friday blog post announced the feature, which allows users to either select one of Google’s hand-picked backgrounds or upload their own image. Google’s backgrounds include office spaces, landscapes and […]
ManagedMethods, a Google G Suite and Microsoft 365 cybersecurity, student safety, and compliance platform for K-12 schools, has launched its new Google Classroom monitoring and reporting features. The announcement of the newest features comes after the May announcement of the company’s Google Meet monitoring and reporting capabilities. Using ManagedMethods, IT administrators can monitor which Google Meet sessions students […]
Google Meet is getting breakout rooms for G Suite Enterprise for Education customers that will allow organizers to divide rooms into smaller groups during video calls. According to a G Suite blog, users can create up to 100 breakout rooms in one single call. Call participants will be randomly and equally distributed across rooms, and […]
Google is continuing its offer of free unlimited Meet calls through March of 2021 for Gmail accounts after originally setting a date of Sept. 30. The move will help keep users of the free service connected with one another after Google in April made its videoconferencing and collaboration product free for anyone with a Gmail […]
Videoconferencing and collaboration apps like Google Meet are, for obvious reasons, crucially important right now. To that end, Google has worked over the last few months in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to improve Meet and better integrate it with Gmail and other G Suite tools. Now, the Google Meet mobile apps for iOS and […]
Google is hoping to boost its G Sutie platform to rival Microsoft and Slack as the unified communications and collaboration software leaders with a redesign of Gmail for G Suite and deeper integrations between the included tools. The company hopes to bring all of its G Suite tools together and address the demand for remote […]
This spring, when the world was just getting familiar with videoconferencing platforms, security quickly became a big issue. Unauthorized users were gaining access to video calls and disrupting meetings, conferences, and classes. With children involved, security for the educational use of videoconferencing became very important. Many school districts banned the use of Zoom because of […]
Over the last few months, the world got a crash course in videoconferencing and collaboration technology. With remote work now part of our culture, platforms like Zoom, BlueJeans, Lifesize, Webex, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams have become a must have for most organizations that typically reported to an office setting. However, Microsoft Teams, which is […]
Google Meet is launching a series of new features that aim to make the platform more competitive to Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other videoconferencing and collaboration solutions. The new features come as videoconferencing platforms enjoy a surge in use due to the rise of remote work amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company says the platform’s […]
Google Meet is the latest G Sutie app to get a new shortcut feature that allows users to immediately start a call on the web. Users can already use “.new” links to create documents in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites and Forms. Using Meet.new, users can immediately start a call. According to 9 to 5 […]
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