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Allow fellow participants to manage Meet’s with you. Tag team a presentation with Slides and work together for an engaging seminar.

  1. On your desktop browser, go to Google Calendar.
  2. Click the event or meeting you want to add a co-host to.
  3. From the pop-up menu, click Edit event .
    • If your event doesn’t have a meeting attached, click Add Google Meet video conferencing.
  4. Click Video call options .
  5. In the pop-up menu, turn on Host Management .
  6. On the left, click Co-hosts
  7. Check the box next to “Call artifacts are shared with the host and co-hosts you add here.”
  8. Add participants as co-hosts.

Add a co-host before a meeting starts

  1. On your desktop browser, go to Google Calendar
  2. At the top left, click Create.
  3. In the drop down, select Event.
  4. Add meeting guests.
    • If your event doesn’t have a meeting attached, click Add Google Meet video conferencing.
  5. Click Video call options .
  6. In the pop-up menu, turn on Host Management .
  7. On the left, click Co-hosts .
  8. Enter the names of the participants you want to add as a co-host.
  9. Select their names from the drop down.
  10. Click Save from within the pop-up menu.
  11. To save the Google Calendar event, click Save

Add a co-host to an existing meeting

Important: You’ll have to be the creator of the meeting to make this change. If somebody else created the meeting then either they can add you as a co-host or transfer the meeting to you before you add co-hosts.

  1. On your desktop browser, go to Google Calendar
  2. Click the event or meeting you want to add a co-host to.
  3. From the pop-up menu, click Edit event .
    • If your event doesn’t have a meeting attached, click Add Google Meet video conferencing.
  4. Click Video call options .
  5. In the pop-up menu, turn on Host Management .
  6. On the left, click Co-hosts .
  7. Enter the names of the participants you want to add as a co-host.
  8. Select their names from the drop down.
  9. Click Save from within the pop-up menu.
  10. To save the Google Calendar event, click Save