Google Meet: How to Share your Screen

This is a tutorial on how to share your screen in Google Hangouts Meet and miscellaneous conferencing options that are available to the user.

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  .
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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