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Start or schedule a Google Meet video meeting
Calling is available in the new Meet app. Get started with calling in Google Meet to stay connected with friends and family .
You can set up or start a new Google Meet video meeting from:
- Google Calendar
- Google Chat (Mobile only)
- Another scheduling system
Start a video meeting from Meet
- Go to Google Meet .
- Click New Meeting .
- To share the meeting details for a future meeting, copy the meeting link and share with participants.
- Start an instant meeting : Create a new meeting and join the meeting directly.
- Schedule in Google Calendar : To schedule a meeting, you’re directed to Google Calendar .
Tip : Google Workspace Essentials users can't schedule a meeting in Google Calendar.
Start a video meeting from Gmail
- Open Gmail .
- In the Meet section, click New meeting .
- To send an email invite, click Share via email.
- When you’re ready to join the meeting, click Join now.
- To join the call, click Join now.
Learn how to start or join a video call in Gmail .
Schedule a video meeting from Google Calendar
When you create an event on Google Calendar, you can add a video meeting link.
- Google Workspace users: You can also add a dial-in number to the Calendar event.
- Google Workspace Essentials users : You can't schedule a meeting in Google Calendar.
Important: Guests can forward the meeting link to other people. If an uninvited person tries to join, a meeting participant from your organization must accept their request. For meetings organized by a personal Google Account, only the meeting creator can admit these participants.
- In Calendar , create an event.
- Click Add guests.
- Enter the names or email of the people you want to invite.
- Click Save .
- To notify guests, click Send .
Start a meeting from Google Chat
Use host controls to manage who can join your meetings.
- In Google Calendar, select an event.
- Open: Anyone with a meeting link can join your meetings. No one has to knock.
- Trusted: Anyone within the host’s organization can join without knocking. Anyone outside the organization, but invited through a Google Calendar event, can join without knocking. Everybody else must knock.
- Not available for consumer users.
- Optional: To choose if you must join the meeting before anyone else, turn on "Host must join before anyone else."
Tip: Settings are at the meeting level, so different meetings can have different meeting access options. Recurring meetings keep the same settings as the first meeting.
Schedule a video meeting in another scheduling system
- Start a video meeting from Gmail or Meet.
- Copy the meeting details to an event created in your scheduling system.
Learn about default settings
- Enterprise users: All new meetings are set to “Trusted” and your guests can join before you by default.
- Education users: New meetings created through Google Classroom are set to “Restricted” and your guests can’t join before you. All other new meetings are set to “Trusted” and your guests can join before you by default.
- Consumer users: All new meetings are set to “Trusted” and your guests can join before you by default. Anyone invited through Google Calendar invite is considered “Trusted.”
- On your computer, open Google Calendar .
- Create a new meeting and add guests.
- Turn on Host management .
- In the "Guests" tab, turn on Everyone is a viewer by default .
- To add contributors, add guests to the invite.
- If the contributor’s email doesn't display, make sure you add them to the invite first.
Learn how to assign view only role in Google Meet .
Hosts can enable certain features to start automatically when a meeting begins, like Record the meeting, Transcribe the meeting, and Take notes with Gemini.
- “ Record the meeting ”
- “ Transcribe the meeting ”
- ” Take notes with Gemini "
- Participants who join a meeting where the host has enabled these features get an on-screen warning message.
- Even if these features are enabled to start automatically, they won’t start until the host or co-host joins the meeting on web.
Related resources
- Troubleshoot issues with Google Meet
- Learn how to create an event in Google Calendar
- Start or join a video call from Gmail
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