[CASL-L] Safeguarding a Google Meet

[Mike McNiff]

With regard to the comment about students popping in to Meets with the code
from a friend, it appears Google has just rolled out additional Host
Controls to address that. Please see the attached PDF that was posted to
teachers in my school.


On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:30 PM Leslie Poulos via CASL-L <casl-l at mylist.net>
wrote:

> I know they made changes at the admin level in Google in my district so
> kids could not start a Meet. They also removed the option for students to
> join by phone (we are 1:1) as that is how some students were using a code
> sent by friend and disrupting other classes. Our tech team did say it was
> important for the teacher to make sure all students had left the meet
> before the teacher closed out (or kids could remain in after teacher left).
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Sep 17, 2020, at 12:30 PM, Beth Pronovost <beth.pr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Our experience is the same as Shannon’s this year. Teachers are
> exclusively using the link in their classroom & students cannot get in
> until the teacher is in.
>
> The new thing in our school is students giving the class code to friends &
> their friends joining the class & popping into the Meets 🤦‍♀️. They’re
> always one step ahead!
>
> Beth
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 9:04 AM Shannon McNeice via CASL-L <
> casl-l at mylist.net> wrote:
>
>> Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe now that the Meet link in the
>> Google Classroom header is only active when the teacher enters the room. If
>> the teacher isn't in the room, the student should get this message. It
>> might be a setting at the district level.
>>
>> <image.png>
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>> Shannon McNeice
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>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 8:37 AM Celeste Estevez <
>> cestevez at tolland.k12.ct.us> wrote:
>>
>>> In the spring I followed the same procedure described by Jane and didn’t
>>> have any difficulties. We were being required to use the persistent meet
>>> link which really creates the problems described.
>>> Updates to Meet are in the works and I think they are released on a
>>> district by district basis, not all at once.
>>>
>>> Here’s a link to the Google blog which was posted 3 days ago:
>>>
>>> https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/09/meet-participan.html?m=1
>>>
>>> Hang in there everyone!
>>>
>>> Celeste
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Sep 17, 2020, at 7:26 AM, Jane Martellino <janemartellino at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Last spring I tested it every which way and for us, the only safe way
>>> was for the teacher to create a link in calendar and since we use iPads, to
>>> give students the letters that follow: meet.google.com/
>>> The students use the Meet app and enter those letters and the teacher
>>> admits them. We found using the link through Glassroom allowed students to
>>> get in prior to teacher.  Perhaps things have changed since google made
>>> some updates. We also found recently that a teacher used a generic word for
>>> a “nickname” and another teacher just happened to use the same nickname and
>>> she accidentally popped into someone’s class!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:32 PM Jaclyn Deloma <jdeloma at milforded.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Everyone!
>>>>
>>>> Our school is having some difficulty with kids accessing Google
>>>> meetings either prior to the official start of one or after the meeting has
>>>> ended.  I found the attached video that describes how utilizing a nickname
>>>> prevents this situation from happening while also continuing to have host
>>>> controls of participants' Google Meet functions.  However, a teacher stated
>>>> one of her students was able to still access the Meet without her present.
>>>> Does anyone know of any other ways or features in Meets that will help with
>>>> this?
>>>>
>>>> Google Meet Host Control <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylx_DR0CRGM>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> Jackie
>>>>
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