Google Meet: How to Share your Screen

Overview

 Google Hangouts Meet allows participants to share their entire screen or active windows (i.e. screen share just a PowerPoint to present instead of sharing everything). There are also a few miscellaneous settings that can beneficial for video conferencing. 

Instructions

  1. Join a Meet video meeting.
  2. At the bottom, click Present now Share screen .
  3. Select Your entire screen, A window, or A tab.
    • If you present a Chrome tab, it shares that tab's audio by default.
    • To present a different tab, select the tab you want to present, click Share this tab instead.
    • If you present a Slides presentation through a tab, you can control it in Meet.
  4. Click Share.
  5. Optional: To unpin your presentation and view it as a tile, click Unpin 

To prevent mirroring, share a new window or a specific tab instead of the meeting window.

 

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