Canvas Tutorials

Google Meet

Since Willamette uses Google Workspace, we have access to Google Meet as an alternative to Zoom for remote classes, synchronous and asynchronous teaching, and making recordings. 

• The WITS guide to Google Meet

NOTE: Google Meet does not have a video editor built into it. There are many video editing options available to you. If you upload your videos to Canvas, you can use the editor built into Kaltura (My Media/Media Gallery). Alternatively, you can access iMovie or Adobe Express through WITS, or Canva online. The Digital Learning Studio staff are happy to help you with these programs. Learn more about your options on the DLS tutorial guide. 

Table of Contents:

• Setting up Google Meet
• Meetings in Google Meet:
  • Create and Join Meetings
  • Sharing Your Screen
  • Sharing a Presentaiton
  • Recordings, Meet Artifacts
  • More Tips

Setting up Google Meet

• First, enable Google Meet in your course on your course settings page under the navigation tab (directions here: Getting Started in Canvas > Visible and Invisible / Active and Inactive Items).
• Look for the item "Google Meet (LTI 1.3)" in your inactive items list.
• Don't forget to click the Save button if you need to drag Google Meet into your active items list!

Create and Join Meetings

• Instructors: Create, edit & delete meetings

• Join Meetings in Google Meet

Sharing your screen

• Google: Present during a video meeting
• WITS: How to Share Your Screen

Sharing a Presentation

Sharing Google Slides presentations in Meet is very easy. 

• Google: Share a presentation

To share a PowerPoint or another, non-Google presentation, it's helpful to enable picture-in-picture mode so you can see both Meet and your slides in presenter mode.

• Google: Use picture-in-picture with Google Meet
• To share your presentation:

1. open your Google Meet meeting
2. enable picture-in-picture mode if it is not enabled
3. open your presentation and open presenter mode
4. go back to Google Meet and expand the picture-in-picture view to use the Meet tools like annotations. You will still have to switch back to presentation to advance the slides.

Recordings, Meet Artifacts

"Artifact" is Google Meet's term for recordings, transcripts, Q&A, attendance lists, and any other materials generated in a meeting. 

• Open Meet artifacts
• Meet recordings are automatically stored in your Google Drive, so you may want to clean out that folder periodically, BUT don't delete them until you have it saved somewhere!

To begin recording:

• join the meeting
• click the 3 hamburger dots to view options
• select "Manage Recording." You will have the option to autogenerate captions and a transcript. Check the boxes for your preference, then click the blue "Start recording" button.

Viewing recordings and making recordings available: 

• after you end the meeting, Google Meet will process the recording
• Google will send you an email once the recording is ready 
• you can also find recordings by navigating to the "Google Meet (LTI 1.3)" page in your course and clicking the "Meet artifacts" tab
• to make recordings and other artifacts available to students, toggle the button that says "Share recordings with students" under the "Meet artifacts" tab

More tips

• Dynamic layouts (how the grid of faces appear in Meet)
• Use picture-in-picture with Google Meet
• The WITS guide to Google Meet

Tech support: For technical assistance, start a ticket with WITS 

Brainstorming: For ideas on how to use tools in your course, contact the DLS