Learn about adaptive meetings
Important: This feature is available for any meeting that can be live streamed. Learn which Google Workspace editions can live stream.
If you’re a host or meeting creator, you can make your live stream meeting adaptive. This helps you scale meetings to any size with streamlined user flows for other hosts and audiences.
Convert a regular meeting into an adaptive meeting
Convert a meeting in Google Meet
Important: Make sure the meeting can be live streamed. Learn how to live stream a video meeting for hosts.
- On your computer, open a meeting in Google Meet.
- At the bottom right, click Meeting Tools.
- To attach a live stream to your event, click Live streaming.
- At the bottom right, click Host controls 👁 Image
. - Turn on Make the meeting adaptive.
Convert a meeting in Google Calendar
Important: Make sure the meeting can be live streamed. Learn how to live stream a video meeting for hosts.
- On your computer, go to Google Calendar.
- Click on an event with a meeting attached 👁 and then
Edit event 👁 Image
. - Next to “Join with Google Meet,” click View conference details 👁 Image
👁 and then
Add live stream 👁 and then
Video call options 👁 Image
. - Under the “Host controls 👁 Image
” tab, go to Meeting access. - Turn on Make the meeting adaptive.
- When a meeting is adaptive, the live stream access can be set to either:
- Trusted: People can watch if they belong to your organization or are invited with their Google Account. This is the default setting. Users can join with invited Google Accounts in your own domain or external domains.
- Restricted: Only invited people can watch. Use this option if you don’t want to allow everybody in your own domain to watch the live stream.
- When a meeting is adaptive, the live stream access can be set to either:
Tips:
- Adaptive meetings don’t support “Open” access, and the live stream can’t have a stricter access policy than the meeting. This means that if the meeting access is “Trusted,” the only available access policy for the live stream is “Trusted” too. Only “Restricted” meetings can have “Restricted” live streams.
- When adaptive mode is used, to enhance security and prevent disruptions, the “Ask to join” feature is automatically off.
- Adaptive meetings also allow eligible participants to change their role from viewer to contributor.