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Google Meet’s ‘Green Room’ feature lets you preview how you’ll appear and sound to others in a meeting. Before you join a meeting, click on the “Check your audio and video” button below the video. A pop-up window will not only show your video image, but allow you to see (and change) which microphone, speaker and camera is currently live. Click the “Next” button to record a 6-second video sample to see and hear you call quality. Your mic, speaker, camera and connection are checked and get green checkmarks if they are working. Select “Tips and Tricks” for help fixing an audio or video issue. When you’re done, click the ‘X’ in the upper-right of the window to close the Green Room, then click “Join now” to join the meeting.

This feature is available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter/ Standard/ Business Plus customers, Enterprise Essentials/ Standard/ Plus customers, as well as G Suite Basic, Business, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Non-profit customers.

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A cross between a whiteboard and a notebook, the Mini Wipebook Scan is meant for brainstorming, jotting down ideas, working out equations, doodling, and more. Each of its 20 double-sided pages is coated in a hypergloss film for easy erasing, offering all the functionality of a traditional notebook without the paper waste. Using the free Wipebook Scan app, you can scan and upload your work to your favourite cloud service – Google Drive, Evernote or Dropebox – before wiping the page clean. It comes with a Staedtler Lumocolor correctable marker.

Each Mini Wipebook comes packing 20 glossy-surfaced A5 sized pages, including 10 ruled lined pages and 10 graph pages. Then, using a dry erase or correctible ink pen like the included Staedtler 305F-9 Pen, simply go to work visualizing your thoughts in your own unique way.  

With the Wipebook Scan, you can fill up page after page with brilliance, file it with a click, then have a completely empty notebook to start the process all over again. And it's all with the same sense of tactile pen-and-ink work many grew up learning.

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