With Google Meet waiting rooms, you can allow your users to control who joins their meetings. Meeting hosts in your organization can move people who've joined to a waiting room. This lets your users manage the flow of meeting participants and communicate important information.
About waiting rooms
- Queue management—Waiting rooms helps manage the queue of people trying to join a meeting, making sure they're admitted in a timely manner.
- Communicate with participants—Meeting hosts in your organization can send messages to everyone in the waiting room.
- Share important information—Users in the waiting room can access information about the meeting, such as meeting attachments.
Select default settings for waiting rooms
Before you begin: If needed, learn how to apply the setting to a department or group.
Note: Changes can take up to 24 hours but typically happen more quickly. Learn more
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In the Google Admin console, go to Menu
Apps Google Workspace Google Meet.Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.
- Click Meet safety settings.
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(Optional) To apply the setting only to some users, at the side, select an organizational unit (often used for departments) or configuration group (advanced).
Group settings override organizational units. Learn more
- Click Waiting Rooms.
- Check the Waiting room box.
- (Optional) If you want to bring meeting participants into the call from the waiting room as soon as a host joins, check the Bring in automatically box.
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Click Save. Or, you might click Override for an organizational unit.
To later restore the inherited value, click Inherit (or Unset for a group).