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You can raise or lower your hand in Google Meet hardware to let the moderator or participants know that someone in your room wants to speak.
About meeting moderators
People who schedule or start a meeting are moderators. Entire rooms can be moderators, but only in unscheduled meetings. By default, there is only one moderator for each meeting. However, inside, you can add up to 25 co-hosts.
Moderators receive notifications for hands raised in the order that they’re raised. After a participant speaks or asks a question, you can lower their hand so that others can speak.
Raise or lower your room's hand
When you raise your hand on a Meet hardware device, participants are notified. (The room name appears.) A raised hand appears on the device self view, so that in-room participants can see it.
Tip: You or the meeting moderator can lower your room's hand. If the meeting moderator lowers your room's hand, you see a notification.
Meet hardware touchscreen
To raise or lower your room's hand, choose an option. At the top center of the touchscreen, tap:
- Raise Hand
- Lower Hand
Chromebox
To raise your room's hand, using the remote control, select More
choose an option:
- Raise Hand
- Lower Hand
Chromebase
To raise or lower your room's hand, choose an option. At the bottom center of the touchscreen, tap:
- Raise Hand
- Lower Hand
Lower one or all hands as a moderator
When someone raises their hand, the moderator sees a notification on the bottom of the meeting window. If your Meet hardware room is the moderator for an unscheduled meeting, any person or room that raises their hand appears in the participant list. You can use the Meet hardware device to lower the hand for a person or room or to lower all hands.
Meet hardware touchscreen
Participants are shown on the touchscreen.
- Next to the participant’s name, tap Lower Hand
.
- To lower all hands, tap Lower all.
Chromebox
Participants are shown when a person or room raises their hand.
- Next to the participant’s name, use the remote to select Lower Hand
- To lower all hands, use the remote to select Lower all.
Chromebase
Participants are shown when a person or room raises their hand.
- Next to the participant’s name, tap Lower Hand
- To lower all hands, tap Lower all.