Record a Google Meeting

Google allows you to record a video meeting.

Recording meetings is useful when you want to review the meeting later, or share it with people who couldn’t attend.

You can record a meeting if you are:

• You’re the meeting host.

• You’re from outside the host's organisation and promoted to a co-host.

• You're from the host's organisation and Host Management is off.

• You’re a teacher or co-teacher for meetings created through Google Classroom.

Recordings include the active speaker and anything presented. You can also choose to record the meeting's captions. Recordings are saved to the organiser’s Meet Recordings folder in My Drive. An email with the recording link is sent to the meeting organiser and the person who started the recording. The link is added to the Calendar event.

Other windows or notifications are not included in the recording. Pinning a participant won’t affect who is shown in the recording.

 Instructions

1. On your computer, in Google Meet, click Start or Join

2. At the bottom right, click the Activities button > Recording. To record the meeting captions, select a language.

3. Click Start recording.

4. In the pop-up screen, click Start.

5. Wait for the recording to start. Participants get a notification when the recording starts or stops.

   • Meetings can only be recorded for a total of 8 hours, then the recording stops automatically.

6. To stop a recording, click the Activities button >  Recording > Stop recording.

7. In the pop-up screen, click Stop recording.

   • Tip: The recording stops automatically when everyone leaves the meeting.

An email with the recording link is sent to the meeting organiser and the person who started the recording.

The recording is saved to the meeting organiser’s My Drive > Meet Recordings folder

For meetings created through:

• Google Calendar: The meeting organiser is the person who creates the meeting event on Google Calendar.

• The Google Meet homepage or another product such as Gmail or Jamboard: The meeting organiser is the person who launches the meeting or generates the code.