{"id":32624,"date":"2020-06-26T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2620865"},"modified":"2020-06-26T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T15:20:00","slug":"google-meet-for-g-suite-adds-custom-backgrounds-larger-gallery-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/26\/google-meet-for-g-suite-adds-custom-backgrounds-larger-gallery-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Meet for G Suite adds custom backgrounds, larger gallery view"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After watching Zoom take hold with educators during the ongoing pandemic, Google said Thursday that its G Suite for Education is gearing up for the fall with features for Google Meet that include up to 49 participants, custom backgrounds, a “raise hand” feature, and better attendee controls and diagnostics.<\/p>\n

Google says that 140 million educators and students are now using G Suite for Education. The new Meet features will be launching later this year, presumably before classes return in the fall. Meet already scored points with an amazing new de-noiser capability<\/a>, though the new features are more practical.<\/p>\n

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Inside the virtual classroom itself, Meet’s adding two new features: the ability to show a gallery view of up to 49 participants, and a shared, collaborative whiteboard so that students can see what the teacher is interacting with on their screen. According to a press release shared by Google, the whiteboard will have Jamboard<\/a> integration, the name for Google’s existing collaborative whiteboard for education. All these features will be available to all G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education users, as well as a “raise hand” feature to signal a teacher—pretty much a standard feature in most online videoconferencing apps right now.<\/p>\n

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