Turn off Meet meetings and calls for your organization

With a Google Workspace Education edition, you can prevent users at your school from starting or joining Meet meetings. Or you can just turn off their ability to start meetings. Turning off either setting prevents people from using Meet in the integrated Gmail experience. 

Turn off call creation (Education editions)

If you turn off call creation, users can still receive Meet calls or join Meet meetings created by others. This setting doesn't impact Legacy or "Duo-type" calls.

1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

2. Go to Menu  Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet.

   Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.

3. (Optional) To apply the setting only to some users, at the side, select an organizational unit (often used for departments) or configuration group (advanced). Show me how

   Group settings override organizational units. Learn more

4. Click Meet video settings.
5. Click Call Creation and check or uncheck the Users can create their own meetings or make calls box..
6. Click Save. Or, you might click Override for an organizational unit.

   To later restore the inherited value, click Inherit (or Unset for a group).

Turn off all Meet meetings (Education editions)

To turn off all Meet meetings for your school, turn off the Google Meet service. If you turn off all Meet meetings, users in can’t join or create Meet meetings when signed in to their Workspace account. You might want to do this if you’re transitioning to another conferencing service.

1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

2. Go to Menu  Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet.

   Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.

3. To turn off Meet for everyone, click Service statusOff for everyone.
4. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Learn more about organizational structure.
5. (Optional) To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.

Changes can take up to 24 hours but typically happen more quickly. Learn more

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