Google Meet is gaining popularity as it continues to roll out updates to try and compete with today’s big video conferencing apps. With the latest update, Google Meet can now hold up to 250 users (requires Enterprise plan). Google Meet is also going free, but we have yet to learn how many users will be allowed in the free version and how long meetings will last.

Google Meet is also widely used for educational purposes, where a good degree of control over the participants (students, you know!) is paramount to the successful conclusion of a meeting. To emphasize this, here are the best tips for managing Google Meet participants during a meeting.

► How to use Google Meet from Gmail

The pin feature in Google Meet lets users decide who stays in the center of their screen and takes up the most space. By default, Google Meet starts a video meeting in the “Auto” layout. This layout allows Google Meet to choose the best option for your meeting video feed, depending on presentations, active speakers, etc.