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If you own a comb, you likely turn on your camera regularly. The advent of background blurring and changing made even tidying up optional. But what about your presentation skills?
Meet is our easiest screen sharing solution and has many available options. Time to bolster your arsenal for your next session.
Go get your own screens!
Your options
Your options
When to share "Your entire screen"
When to share "Your entire screen"
Sharing your desktop means EVERYTHING you see - from the "close window" button to your clock. If you happen to have multiple screens, you will need to choose which screen to share (you can only share one at a time).
If you switch between windows
If you plan on closing or opening new windows
If you want to show more than one window at the same time, or switch between windows
If you want to have it easy. There is not much thinking required when just sharing everything.
Attention! Since the audience will see everything, if you do not silence Chat, they will see notifications.
You may have a huge screen (technically, a high resolution) - in that case, content will be tiny for your audience and you better share a window.
If that is the case and it concerns you, reduce your resolution or choose another mode of presenting.
When to share "A window"
When to share "A window"
Whatever you have on top of that window will not be shared (not even your mouse). If you share the Chrome browser's window, you share whatever tab is currently open - if you switch to a different tab, that tab is shown.
If you'll talk about a single window, like a presentation or a single website/app.
If you don't have your notifications under control
If presenting to a sensitive audience (those notifications...!)
If you have a really big screen. Your audience will thank you for sharing a smaller window.
Window sharing has traditionally been the way to go. You do not have to worry about Chat pop-ups, you do not have to close anything else. In a pre-Google world, this would have been all you needed.
NEW! When to share "A tab"
NEW! When to share "A tab"
Sharing a tab is a new and improved way to share tabs from the Chrome browser. Instead of selecting a window to share, you will select any other tab - that can be a presentation, a document or a video, for example.
It supports audio - whatever is playing in that tab, your audience hears
It supports a higher framerate, ideal for videos
The performance is better
It locks your presenting to a single tab. You can go on doing things in other tabs, if you are a multitasking monster.
When sharing a tab, you will be able to switch your presentation to other tabs if you want to. This makes tab sharing very controlled - if your content lives in Chrome. The good thing: Nowadays, everything except specialist applications lives in Chrome, even Office formats.
Bonus! Sharing on mobile
Bonus! Sharing on mobile
"Web first", "mobile first" and "AI first" have been fundamentals of Google Workspace. So yes, you can share your screen on mobile, too - you can present from your tablet and even from your phone. Mobile screen sharing is "Your entire screen", reducing fumbling.
Not to be used: Casting
Not to be used: Casting
Casting is an old way of presenting content. It works like your Chromecast at home: You can cast any tab to a Meet (or even to any Chromecast device on your network, if you work from home).
Using it is problematic because it only works half of the time and does not have audio. Tab sharing has been introduced to work wildly better.
If you still would like to try it, it is found under the three-dot menu in Chrome (you should have an open Meet session).
Hope to see you on a Meet these days - but when we do talk and you ask "can you see my screen", you owe me a beer. 🍻 Deal? Thanks for reading!
#meetPublished 2018-11-13 by Holger Matthies.Modified 20021-01-07 by Holger Matthies.Written listening to: Light of the Seven.
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