{"id":3452,"date":"2020-12-02T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T12:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/ua\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:19:21","slug":"google-meet-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/en\/blog\/google-meet-latest-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Meet. Latest updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to the recent events, tools that enable distance communication and collaboration are ever-demanded. Google Meet is the one of such solutions. Total meeting and stream administrating, enterprise-level security, AI utilizing, etc. are just a tip of the iceberg of \u0131ts features.\u00a0 The solution is being constantly developed and multiplying its features. Literally the other day the latest updates that will be useful for both an ordinary user and an administrator have been rolled out. Let\u2019s review each of them in detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BREAKOUT ROOMS\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Supported users\u2019 increasing: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">now users dial-in and anonymous users can now be added to waiting rooms.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Asking for help:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">while working in the waiting room, participants can leave a request for help, which will be visible to the call moderator on a special panel. Thus, the moderator will be able to respond to the request and go to the desired room.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Timer\/countdown: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the moderator can set a timer for working in the waiting rooms, which will be automatically minimized after it ends. Participants will see a counter with the amount of time remaining and calculate their work. They will also be notified 30 seconds before the end with the option to return to the main call in advance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Access for more subscriptions: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">customers with Google Workspace, Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus customers, as well as G Suite Business and Enterprise for Education, now have access to breakout rooms.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3454 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Google_Meet_Breakout_Rooms.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Google_Meet_Breakout_Rooms.png 796w, https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Google_Meet_Breakout_Rooms-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Google_Meet_Breakout_Rooms-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Google_Meet_Breakout_Rooms-600x337.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>ATTENDANCE REPORTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>New reporting control settings:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> administrators of educational domains will automatically receive reports on video calls with 5+ participants. Business domain administrators can decide whether the report is generated in the built-in settings or in the Calendar before the start of the video meeting.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Stream view number data:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a separate chart of stream viewers with data on viewers in total and viewers at a specific time.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3456 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Live-stream-attendance-report.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Live-stream-attendance-report.png 640w, https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Live-stream-attendance-report-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Live-stream-attendance-report-600x476.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Admin control of attendance tracking:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the administrator can select users who will have access to the attendance tracking function.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Built-in counter of stream viewers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by logging in from a computer or desktop, organizers and participants of the live broadcast can see the current number of viewers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3457 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Live-stream-in-call-count.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Live-stream-in-call-count.png 639w, https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Live-stream-in-call-count-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Live-stream-in-call-count-600x374.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Access to reports for more subscriptions:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Customers with Google Workspace Essentials, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus subscriptions now have access to these reports.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact us to get more information &#8211; we\u2019re always ready to help!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the recent events, tools that enable distance communication and collaboration are ever-demanded. Google Meet is the one of such solutions. Total meeting and stream administrating, enterprise-level security, AI utilizing, etc. are just a tip of the iceberg of \u0131ts features.\u00a0 The solution is being constantly developed and multiplying its features. Literally the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-blog","category-google-workspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfresh.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}