Google Meet hosts will soon be able to turn off participants’ microphones or cameras and keep them from betraying, the organization reported in a Workspace blog. The element could be a valuable way for hosts to keep noisy or rowdy participants from continually interrupting even after they have already been muted.
The microphone and digital camera lock function may be off default; hosts should flip it on all through gatherings if they need to utilize it. In the event that your get together has breakout rooms, any audio and / or video locks made in the essential will apply in these, as well.
The other isn’t correct, despite the fact that, which implies that secures used specific individual breakout rooms gained’t matter to various breakout rooms or the essential room.
In case you’re using older variations of the applications on iOS and Android that don’t help the characteristic, you’ll be kicked from the gathering if the hosts enacts the locks; in the occasion that they’re turned on forward of the get together and you’re on a sort of more seasoned applications, you received’t have the option to be a piece of the get together in any regard. Google says that winding down the locks will let people using older applications participate in a get-together.
All Google Workspace clients will approach the feature, which started rolling out for clients on the Rapid Release tracks on Thursday. It will begin rolling out for those on the Scheduled Release track on November first.