Disable Changing Background option in Google Meet | Google Workspace for Education | Safe Doc

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Video Transcript:

Hey, Jason from xFanatical here. In this short video, I’m going to demonstrate how Safe Doc disable changing background feature in Google Meet of Google Workspace.

Google added a professional feature virtual background to Google Meet in the Oct 2020 update. This feature allows you to replace your messy room background with a beautiful image from Google's hand-picked image library.

Since the launch of this feature, many young students in schools start playing this feature at online classes. This feature distracts them from the lecture. The background effects also come with computing and network resources costs, degrading the device performance and school network.

Even though Google later published a backgrounds admin control, the setting was applied to the meeting organizer, not the participants. That is, whether the students can use the backgrounds is based on the meeting organizer's organizational unit (OU) background admin setting, not the students' OU background admin setting.
It's not possible to enable virtual background for teacher-to-teachers meetings and disable background for teacher-to-students meetings.

Safe Doc disables the virtual background feature by removing the change background buttons and menu items.

The screenshots well tell the differences. In the Google Meet waiting room, in the camera preview box, Safe Doc removes the change background button along with the change background menu in the 3 dots menu.

In the Google Meet session, the change background menu item can be found at the right of the bottom toolbar 3 dots menus. Safe Doc removes it as well.

Set the policy BlockMeetChangeBackground to true in your Safe Doc extension policy configuration.

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