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Published 18:44 IST, March 16th 2020

How to use Google Hangouts to schedule and start a video call?

Google Hangouts offers free group video calls and is widely used in organisations. Know how to use Google Hangouts to schedule and start a video call.

Reported by: Danish Ansari
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Google Hangouts is a widely-used communication tool from Google that offers easy-to-join video calls, allowing people to meet face to face from different parts of the world. To access Google Hangouts, you can simply follow this link or open Hangouts in Gmail. Users can also get the Hangouts Chrome extension here

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How to use Google Hangouts for a video call?

So before you set up a Google Hangout for video conferencing, you will be required to create an event in your Google Calendar. Once that is done, you will be able to invite attendees to the meeting, who will receive the invitation through an email, alerting them to the event and requesting them to RSVP.

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How to schedule a Google Hangout meeting?

Step 1: Once you have logged in to your Google account using a Mac or PC, you will need to visit the Google Calendar site.

Step 2: In Google Calendar, you will have to on ‘Create’ to add a new event to the calendar.

The ‘Create’ option is located on the left-hand side of the screen.

Step 3: Enter all the required details of the event, which include the name of the meeting, the date and time of the meeting, etc.

Step 4: Select the ‘Add a location or conferencing’ feature and then ‘Add conferencing’ to enable Google Hangouts.

Step 5: You will see the ‘Add guests’ field where you will be required to input the email addresses or contact names of those individuals that you wish to invite to your Hangout meeting.

Step 6: After filling all the required fields, on ‘Save’ to schedule the Google Hangout meet. This will send out invites to all your attendees.

If you wish to invite more people to your meeting after the first setup process, it can be done by simply ing on the event that appears in your Google Calendar, and enter the additional emails under the 'Guests' tab before ing 'Save'.

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How to start a Google Hangout meeting?

Once you have sent an invitation, the invitees will be notified of the meeting in their inbox. At the time when the meeting has been scheduled to take place, users will need to locate the said meeting in Google Calenders and join the meeting by right-ing on the event and selecting 'Join Hangouts Meet'. 

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Image credits: Google Hangouts

Updated 18:44 IST, March 16th 2020

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