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Manage Participants

As the host in a meeting, you can manage a lot of how the participants can interact in your session. A lot of the features found here can be very useful for stopping a participant who is being disruptive to the class, either accidentally or not. While in a meeting you can do everything from mute a student who is having a side conversation to removing a student from the session all together. 

With meetings, hosts and co-hosts can control the following features:

zoom in meeting manage participants menu. Activate this by clicking on button labeled more in the participants list
  • Mute participants
  • Request that a participant unmutes
  • Stop a participant's video
  • Request that a participant starts their video
  • Prevent participants from screen sharing
  • Rename a participant
  • Put a participant on hold if enabled
  • Choose to play an enter or exit chime
  • Lock the meeting to prevent anyone new from joining
  • Place participants in waiting room or admit/remove participants from the waiting room (waiting room can only be enabled by the host)

Only hosts have access to these features:

  • Give a participant the ability to record locally
  • Make a participant host or co-host
  • Enable waiting room

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