Google Meet is a video conferencing platform that allows users to jump into secure, browser-based, high-definition video calls.
Built-in AI productivity tools and integration with Google Workplace. Turn live conversations into organized, searchable notes and files.
CarmenZoom is the academic audio and web conferencing solution for Ohio State. CarmenZoom provides faculty, students and instructional staff with all the functionality of a Zoom pro account .
Microsoft 365 Suite (e.g. Teams, Word, Excel, etc.) remains the official email and collaboration platform for Ohio State. Use Google Workplace applications only when collaborating with colleagues outside of the university that rely on these services. No one at the university is required to adopt the use of these available Google products.
Key Features and Benefits
- Custom Backgrounds & Effects: Options to blur backgrounds, select custom images, or apply pre-designed themes before or during a call.
- Live Captions & Translation: Real-time speech-to-text live captions that make meetings more accessible, with support for translated captions across multiple languages.
- No Downloads Needed: Teammates and guests can join instantly using any web browser without installing extra software, while keeping your meetings safe and private.
- Smart AI Tools: Built-in AI can summarize what you missed, take automated meeting notes, and clean up your video and sound quality.
- Tools for Group Work: Split teams into smaller discussion rooms, run quick polls, and host Q&A sessions during presentations.
- Works with Google Apps: Start calls right inside Gmail, Docs, or Slides, and automatically save video recordings and participant lists to Google Drive.
Google Meet can be accessed from the Meet icon in Google Dashboard or through the web browser at www.google.com/meet. Remember, log in using your Ohio State username (lastname.#@osu.edu) and password to use the Ohio State managed account
Important Information
Providing access to Google tools in addition to our Microsoft tenant allows members of our organization to collaborate with other institutions that may rely on the Google suite of products.
No one at the university is required to adopt the use of these available Google products.
Google Drive and Docs, Colab, Gemini Notebook, Gemini, Meet, Sheets, Docs,Forms, Slides,Vids and Workplace Studio are collaborative tools designed to enable research in pursuit of the AI fluency initiative. As such, these services are approved for use with Research Data, Research Health Information, and FERPA data. Regulated data including (but not limited to) PCI, ITAR, CUI, and HIPAA are not approved for use with these services.
If you have questions about the sensitivity of data you plan to use with these services, please email the Data Governance Team.