
You can adjust and set the bandwidth used by Google Hangouts manually. It varies to provide the best experience for an individual delegate’s network. The bandwidth used by Hangouts is adaptive. Supported browsers and operating systems.

See: Hangouts system requirements on the Google Help Centre page for information on:

To get access to all Hangouts’ features everyone must login using Google+. It takes most people about 4-5 minutes to complete this task. Organise a Hangout sometime before the course itself, so you can check everyone’s system has configured it correctly. You don’t want to lose time at the start of the course fixing any problems. It will say “on air” or “off air”.īefore the course starts: How to set up, test and configure Hangouts You can see the notification at the top of the window. You do this from the Hangout On Air window. When you click Start broadcast, the broadcast starts. If you edit your video, your post (including the video URL) is automatically updated to show the edited version.You can also edit the recording when the broadcast is over.It is available on your Home page once the broadcast has ended.Your Hangout On Air is recorded as a public video.A live player of your broadcast is posted to your Google+ Home page and YouTube channel.You invite circles or individual people to join you in a Hangout On Air, then you broadcast it to the world.Note: you’re still limited to 10 people contributing by video. With Hangouts On Air, you can share and record your discussions on YouTube – either live or as a recording. Only the people within the Hangout Party can watch or listen to the conversation. Hangouts Parties let you have face-to-face video calls with up to nine other people. We recommend you use Hangout Parties for training courses. There are two types of Hangout: Hangout Parties and Hangouts on Air.

The speaker’s image is always enlarged so that there is no confusion over who is speaking at any moment in time. Training can be interactive and delegates can ask questions through their microphones.
