In the next few weeks, some faculty may notice a switch from “Google Hangouts’ to something called “Google Meet’. The two are nearly identical but the change in interface might be a little confusing, so we’ve summarized some of the changes to help you stay ahead of the game.
Changes:
- up to 25 simultaneous users
- invite students through a meeting code which you can reuse
- get meeting code through a calendar event
- get meeting code directly at meet.google.com
- currently only works in Chrome; other browser compatibility is in the works
- moderator needs to have a Google account to log in; users do not need a Google account (@alaska.edu or commercial gmail account) users do need to use Chrome to access meeting
- there is NO option to call the meeting with a phone unless you use the Google smartphone app
Resource with lots of good information
Google Meet replaces Google Hangouts
Thank you for the heads up about these changes!!
We don’t yet have confirmation from OIT on when it will be implemented. I expect it will just become the default one day. We’ll try to let everyone know!