Introduction

In this article we are going to discuss how you can prevent students from adding unknown personnel to Google Meet using xFanatical Safe Doc. Students might indulge in mischievous activities and one of them could be adding unauthorized participants in important educational Google meets. This can create a lot of problems for the teachers in maintaining a safe and secure focused learning environment for their students. All of these can be avoided by just using a powerful browser extension called Safe Doc. After launching the intended Safe Doc policy no student will be able to add unknown and unauthorized individuals to Google Meet. This will maintain the integrity of the classroom and teachers will be able to impart their knowledge to the students without any hiccups.

Adding people to a video meeting in Google Meet is disabled by Safe Doc

Adding people to a video meeting in Google Meet is disabled by Safe Doc

Why prevent students from Adding People to Google Meet?

In a virtual classroom setting, allowing students to add unknown personnel to a Google meet can prove to be a bad decision as it can backfire and make the classroom unsafe for everyone attending that meet. These random participants can send spam or phishing links in the Meet chat and students could click on these making them vulnerable to cyber attacks. Unauthorized participants could also disturb the whole class by making ruckus, this ultimately making the environment not very suitable for imparting education and diverts students from learning and understanding concepts that the teacher wants them to comprehend. 

Lets understand the problem better with a user story : 

Problem : Mrs. Mount, a high school teacher noticed whenever she is teaching her students in a virtual setting using the Google meet, random individuals automatically enter the meet and start disturbing the whole class, this diverts the student attention from what she is trying to convey and makes learning null and void. She is not efficiently able to tackle this situation and asks the school administration for help.

Solution : School administration looks into this situation and concludes that this is a real problem and students only are adding such mischievous individuals to the Google meet. A decision of deploying xFanatical Safe doc is taken with the help of which this ability of adding random individuals to the Google meet is taken away from the students.

Result : After successful deployment of xFantical Safe Doc students were barred from adding random individuals to the meet and class decorum was maintained. Mrs. Mounts was able to maintain a healthy and focused learning environment for her students to learn and thrive in

What is a xFanatical Safe Doc?

xFanatical safe doc is a comprehensive browser extension that is used for maintaining a focused and secure online learning environment for young students. This extension provides robust tools to  administrators and teachers, so that they can easily manage and restrict access to various unwanted features of Google Workspace for Education (GWAF), ensuring a safe and productive digital learning environment can be established.

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Adding people to a video meeting in Google Meet is disabled by Safe Doc

How to block Google Search Games using xFanatical Safe Doc

Step 1 : Install Safe Doc :  The first step is to install Safe doc in your Google Workspace environment.

Step 2 : Configure Safe doc settings : Once you have successfully installed Safe Doc, you can start configuring its settings in accordance to your requirements.

Step 3 : Access Google Admin Console : Now, navigate to the Google Admin Console. In the Google Admin Console, click on Devices followed by Chrome. Then, select Apps and Extensions and click on Users and Browsers.

Step 4 : Copy the required policy and paste it : 

Locate the policy that you wish to apply and copy it. The policy will display in a specific format similar to the example provided below:

"BlockMeetAddPeople": {

  "Value": true

}

Step 5: Save the Policy: 

After copying the policy, click the Save button to apply it.

How to configure Safe Doc?

First of all, ensure the deployment of Safe Doc on your students' Chrome browsers, and review the xFanatical Safe Doc Configuration document. Subsequently, incorporate the BlockMeetAddPeople policy into your Safe Doc configuration, setting its value to true.

Conclusion

Hopefully after reading this article you have understood how and why to prevent students from adding random individuals to Google meet, and maintain a productive learning environment for your students. Please follow all the steps in the correct order so as to get the desired results and if you face any problem or have any query related to this article please feel free to comment below we will connect with you as soon as possible.

To learn more about how xFanatical Safe Doc can help enhance online safety in your educational institution, visit our website  Safe Doc

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