It appears that whoever opens the meet link first on a morning takes over ownership of the host controls (being able to mute, lower hands etc) and ability to record.  The only way to solve this is to ensure you as the teacher are the first to open the meet link for the day.

The easiest way to manage this is to regenerate your meet link every morning before you open your meeting. This will ensure you are the owner of the meeting. 

 

This can be done through the settings (top right - flower looking symbol), scroll down to meet, click the down arrow next to the meet link and click reset. This will reset the meet link on your stream homepage.  All pupils will then need to refresh their page to see the new link.

 

If you remove a pupil during your meet they will not be able to re-enter the meeting for the rest of the day.  This is due to the same meet link being used all day.  Please ask pupils to end the call themselves rather than removing them. 

 

If you are providing 1-1 interventions throughout the day for individual pupils please generate a new individual meet link to ensure no other pupils could join the meeting. The easiest way to do this is to open meet, create a new meet and invite the individual pupil (by sharing the joining link). The pupil would then receive an email with the meet link on.  

 

Please train your children to start accessing gmail daily to know when new activity/stream messages or feedback has been added to their work. I would suggest that you also recommend that parents add their child's gmail to their own device so they can also see new activity and work feedback (this might prompt them to get their children to then look as well).  We have noticed that most children have an inbox full of classroom notifications unread so they are not using it.  It could help by adding a pinned message to the top of your stream with the gmail link in it or sending a marvellous me to parents to ask them to train their children to check their emails daily.  

 

If you are using google slides to provide work for pupils to submit, pupils need to add their answers, close the document and then click hand in from the original assignment screen. The button is normally on the right hand side of the screen where they can add any additional evidence. 

 

If a pupil is struggling to open the document and hand in and instead chooses to email you their work, it may be useful to train them to add it as evidence onto the assignment set and hand in that way rather than email.  It means their work is all in one place and not across google classroom and email.