Zoom Waiting Room

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Zoom waiting room.

For additional help visit zoom s waiting room support documentation. Zoom allows you to be even more specific about which participants are allowed into the meeting and which participants will go to the waiting room. So when there s enough space or current people to leave the meeting room you can allow the people waiting in the lobby to enter the meeting room. In the case of zoom the participants can either be in the waiting room or an active participant.

Zoom recommends users resend invites with passwords attached for meeting id. If you have administrative privileges on your account you can choose to enable the waiting room feature for specific groups of people such as those using a certain domain name or employees in a. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Learn more about how waiting rooms work.

Oit recommends that instructors teaching via zoom should use the passcode option. Having a virtual waiting room enabled for zoom meetings is a must have feature if you want to control who can join your meeting. You should disable zoom waiting room only when you re sure that your meeting invitation link or meeting id and password aren t compromised and are accessible to relevant people only. Hosts will be distracted by having to approve attendees out of the waiting room while they re trying to lead calls.

Click the group name then click the meeting tab. Use the zoom enable and customize waiting rooms to set up waiting rooms and use the steps below to manage participants in the waiting room. In the navigation click user management then group management. To enable waiting room for all members of a specific group.

Zoom provides the capability to control who is admitted to your meetings even after you ve joined as the host using a feature called waiting room. Under the security section verify the waiting room feature is enabled. Use this tutorial to enable waiting rooms and customize a message to appear for those that join the meeting room. Jump directly to each section.

If neither option is enabled by september 27 zoom will enable a waiting room for your meetings.