Google Meet and Chat administration: settings, safety, history and meeting quality
For IT staff who manage Google Meet and Google Chat in the Google Admin console: applying Meet and Chat settings to organizational units and configuration groups, Meet video settings such as recording, Meet safety settings (meeting access, waiting room, incoming calls, participant consent), external chat and external spaces with allowlisted domains, chat and space history with Vault and auto-deletion, and investigating call quality with the Meet quality tool.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 50 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Google Meet and Chat
Skills you'll practise
- Predict which Meet or Chat setting a user gets from the top-level organization, their organizational unit and configuration groups
- Turn Meet recording on for the right people and check the Drive prerequisites
- Choose Meet safety settings for meeting access, the waiting room, incoming calls and participant consent
- Configure external chat and external spaces, limited to allowlisted domains where needed
- Set chat and space history so messages can be retained in Vault, and explain what history off does
- Investigate a poor-quality meeting in the Meet quality tool within its 30-day window
Course outline
- 1.Google Meet and Chat administrationVideo · 2 min
- 2.Meet settings: where they live and who gets themLesson · 18 min
- 3.Chat: external chat, history and retentionLesson · 17 min
- 4.Monitoring and troubleshooting meetingsLesson · 15 min
- 5.Google Meet and Chat administration: settings, safety, history and meeting quality: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
- 6.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Google: Manage Meet settings (Meet video settings, applying to organizational units and groups)
- Google: Turn Meet recording on or off for your organization
- Google: Manage meeting access settings for your users
- Google: Manage waiting room settings for your users
- Google: Restrict who can call my organization's users with Google Meet
- Google: Manage participant consent for Meet features
- Google: Google Meet security and privacy for IT admins
- Google: Track meeting quality and statistics (Meet quality tool)
- Google: Control external Chat and spaces chat options
- Google: Turn chat history on or off for an organization
- Google: History settings for Chat
- Google: Set a space history option for users
- Google: Automatically delete Chat messages for your organization
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