Overview: 8x8 Meet

The 8x8 Meet experience combines flexible communication capabilities with powerfully collaborative meetings. With 8x8 Meet, take your team meetings to the next level via integration with calendar apps, high-definition audio and video, advanced meeting management features, and much more! Once you familiarize yourself with the basics, learn how you can sign up and use 8x8 Meet!

For details on 8x8 Meet features available to different user types, click here.

Features

8x8 Meet enables you to use the following features:

  • Personal meeting space: Take advantage of a personal meeting space unique to you, which you can add to any scheduled event in the calendar you work with. In addition, you can configure your meeting settings to use randomized meeting space names for added security!
  • 8x8 Meet and calendar integration: Integrate 8x8 Meet with one of the following calendars to take advantage of the convenience of your usual calendar app and the power of 8x8 Meet! Simply schedule in your calendar, and with one click or tap from your app, add a meeting to your scheduled event.
    • Apple Calendar
    • Google Calendar
    • Microsoft Exchange
    • Office 365
    • Outlook.com
    • Via our downloadable meeting plug-ins, combine the convenience of scheduling from start to finish in Google Calendar and Office 365 with the capabilities of 8x8 Meet.
  • HD audio and video: Take advantage of a high-fidelity meeting experience that makes collaborating more efficient than ever.
  • Virtual and blurred backgrounds: While sharing video from desktop, enable a virtual or blurred background at any time.

  • Join via dial-in domestically or internationally: Dial in to the meeting using phone numbers available in over 50 countries, or a SIP address if you are joining via SIP device, enabling you to dial in to a meeting free of international charges!

    • Argentina
    • Australia
    • Austria
    • Belgium
    • Brazil
    • Bulgaria
    • Canada
    • Chile
    • Colombia
    • Costa Rica
    • Croatia
    • Cyprus
    • Czech Republic
    • Dominican Republic
    • El Salvador
    • Estonia
    • Finland
    • France
    • Germany
    • Greece
    • Hong Kong
    • Hungary
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Ireland
    • Israel
    • Japan
    • Latvia
    • Lithuania
    • Luxembourg
    • Malaysia
    • Malta
    • Mexico
    • Netherlands
    • New Zealand
    • Norway
    • Panama
    • Peru
    • Poland
    • Portugal
    • Puerto Rico
    • South Korea
    • Romania
    • Russian Federation
    • Singapore
    • Slovakia
    • Slovenia
    • South Africa
    • Spain
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • Thailand
    • Turkey
    • United Kingdom
    • United States
    • Vietnam
  • Join via 8x8 Spaces: If your organization uses in-room conferencing systems to facilitate team and company meetings, you can take advantage of the convenience of your in-room systems when joining in 8x8 Meet.
  • Record meetings: Record meeting audio, video, and content sharing, and distribute recordings among participants for future reference.
  • Invite participants at any time: Invite participants ahead of time via email, or during the meeting to quickly mobilize your team via messaging or dialing out to phone numbers and SIP device addresses.
  • View real-time meeting subtitles: If you want to quickly scan through what was said in a meeting without sitting through a full-length recording, or find it difficult to hear what is spoken while you’re in a meeting, simply activate real-time meeting audio subtitles, and then view a transcript that contains all subtitles that were generated during the meeting!
  • Create and use breakout rooms: As a moderator, create or remove breakout rooms in a meeting. As a participant, join or leave breakout rooms at any time.

  • Stream meetings live: Take advantage of live streaming your meeting via a verified YouTube account to reach a potentially-unlimited audience.

    Note: Ensure that you are using a verified YouTube account to stream, as an account can take 24 hours to be verified before you are able to stream through it.
    For details, see YouTube Help content on how to enable live streaming on your YouTube account.

  • Share on-screen content: Instantly share your on-screen content with other participants! If you are joining via desktop app or browser, you have the ability to share your full screen, a web page, a presentation, or app window with meeting participants. If you are joining from a mobile app, your full screen is shared.
  • Quickly get a presenter’s attention: If you want to ask a question or raise a point without interrupting a presentation, simply use the “Raise hand” feature to make yourself noticeable to a presenter or moderator who will call on you.
  • Join meeting chat: Participate in group chat with all meeting participants at any time, or chat with participants individually in private chat.
  • Organize and participate in polls: If you want a quick tally of other participants' thoughts on any subject, set up an in-meeting poll!
  • Optimized performance no matter where you are: Regardless of your location, 8x8 Meet gives you the best possible performance by routing your connection through the datacenter closest to you.
  • Ability to take over another user’s desktop: If a participant joining via their desktop app needs something clarified, such as how to use a piece of software you are discussing, you can send a request to connect to their desktop if you have joined from your desktop app or via desktop browser. Once the participant accepts, they begin sharing their screen so that you can take remote control of their desktop; this allows you to answer the participant’s question and demonstrate the solution to all participants in the meeting.
  • Meeting security options: Secure your meeting by adding a passcode, randomizing your meeting URL, or both!
  • Control who joins your meeting by enabling a meeting lobby: To be sure that nobody uninvited joins your meeting, you can enable a meeting lobby to personally screen incoming participants.
  • Advanced meeting moderator settings: Take advantage of advanced meeting features and settings; control your audio quality, manage which presenter is most visible to participants, and more!
    • As an administrator: Control whether people outside of your organization have access to in-meeting moderator settings.
    • As a user, manage which presenter is most visible to participants via the “Everyone follows me” setting; with this setting enabled, if you select a person for viewing, that person becomes visible to everyone else in the meeting.
    • As a user, eliminate unintended background noise or video during a presentation:

      • Choose whether participants join the meeting with their microphones and/or cameras disabled by default.

        Note:
        -This setting only takes effect for participants who join after the setting is enabled.
        -If participants have their audio or video disabled this way, they can re-enable their microphones and cameras again later.

      • Disable the microphone and/or camera of a specific participant, or mute everyone other than a specific participant.

        Note: If participants have their audio or video disabled this way, they can re-enable their microphones and cameras again later.

      • Disable the microphones and/or cameras of all participants at once.

        Note: If participants have their audio or video disabled this way, you have the option to choose whether participants can re-enable their microphones or cameras later.

  • Brand your team's meeting experience: Brand your team's meeting spaces by adding your organization's logo, and add a custom background color or image to enhance your meetings with your organization's look and feel.