Meet

In the call

The controls along the bottom: microphone, camera, screen sharing, hands, reactions, chat, pinning, layouts and what only the host can do.

On this page

Sharing your screen
People, hands and reactions
Chat, and sending a file
The stage
What only the host can do
When something goes wrong mid-call

Everything is in one bar along the bottom. Microphone and camera on the left, the things that involve other people in the middle, and Leave on the right, deliberately away from the rest.

Mute and unmuteM

Camera on and offV

Start or stop sharing your screenS

Raise or lower your handH

ChatC

PeopleP

WhiteboardW

Hold to talk while you are muted, release to go back to muted. When you have moved to a button with Tab, Space presses that button insteadSpace

Unpin whoever you pinnedEsc

Press the screen button and pick a tab, a window or a whole screen. Sharing is a desktop feature: phone browsers do not offer it at all. Your camera keeps running while you share, so people can still see you talking over it.

Only Chromium browsers can carry the sound of what you are sharing, and only when you tick the box for it in the picker. Sharing a whole screen never carries sound in any browser.
A screen share keeps its quality when the room fills up. Cameras get quieter as more people join, because everybody is uploading to everybody, but the screen does not, since the screen is why people are looking.
To share a document or a board people can also draw on rather than just watch, use the whiteboard instead.

People, hands and reactions#

The People panel lists everyone, marks the host, shows who is muted and whose camera is off, and holds Copy the invite link so you can pull somebody in without leaving the call. Raising a hand puts a mark next to your name that stays until you lower it. Reactions float across the stage for a couple of seconds and are gone.

Chat, and sending a file#

Chat opens beside the stage and keeps the recent history of the meeting, so a late arrival is not lost.

The paperclip in the chat composer sends a file into the call. It arrives as a card everybody can open, guests included, and the call keeps the last 20 files that were sent, so somebody who joins halfway through still finds what went round before they arrived.

Sending needs a Nemi account that is allowed to edit in the workspace the file belongs to, which is why a guest cannot send one. If your organisation requires a password on every link, or does not allow links anybody can open, a file sent from a call obeys those rules like any other share.

The stage#

Layout

Follow the speakerShow everyone equally

Full screen

Float this call

Stays on top while you use another app.

Turn on captions

Sends this meeting's audio to a transcription service in the EU. Everyone is shown that captions are on.

Record this meeting

Recorded on this device and saved to your files.

The More menu as the host sees it. Captions are the host's switch only; recording is offered to anybody signed in.

Pin on any tile makes that person the big one for you only. Nobody else sees your pin. Press Esc or Unpin to let it go.
Follow the speaker puts whoever is talking in the large tile. Show everyone equally gives everybody the same size.
Float this call pops the call into a small window that stays on top while you work in another app.
A screen share takes the large tile automatically, because it is almost always the reason it was started.

What only the host can do#

Control	What it does
Mute someone	Turns their microphone off. They can turn it back on.
Remove someone	Puts them out of the call. It takes two presses in People: the first turns the button into Remove, the second removes.
Mute everyone else	One press, everybody but the host.
Lock the meeting	Nobody new can join, even with the link.
Ask me before letting people in	Turns the waiting room on or off during the call.
End the meeting for everyone	Closes the call for every participant at once.

When something goes wrong mid-call#

One tile showing a connection failure while the rest are fine is a route problem between those two browsers and nobody else's fault. Everybody sounding fine but nobody hearing you is almost always the wrong microphone or a permission that was never granted: leave and rejoin, and use the meter on the screen before the call. If the picture goes soft as people arrive, that is deliberate, since the camera budget drops as the room fills so the call keeps running on an ordinary connection. If your own connection drops, the top of the screen says Reconnecting and the call picks up again by itself; if it cannot get back after a minute or so, you see Could not join with a Rejoin button, which takes you back to the join screen of the same meeting.

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