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Waiting Room for Zoom Meetings

Waiting Room for Zoom Meetings

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    With the Waiting Room feature the host controls when or which participant joins the meeting. As the meeting host, you can admit or remove attendees one by one. You can also hold all attendees in the Waiting Room and admit them all at once.

    Zoom waiting room view.

    If you use recurring meeting, you can adjust the participants’ joining the meeting in two ways:

    • If you are using the waiting room with the default setting (Logged in HAMK users will enter the meeting anyway), do not enable ”Join Before Host” on the meeting settings.
    • You can adjust the Waiting Room ”Who should go to Waiting Room” setting of your Zoom account https://hamk.zoom.us/profile/setting to involve all the participants. Despite the host and alternative host will enter right away to the actual meeting.

    Setting up the Waiting Room

    Chedule meeting view. There is aEnable Waiting Room option under Advanced Options.
    1. When scheduling a meeting, open Advanced Options.
    2. Check Enable Waiting Room setting.

    Using the Waiting Room

    Host's notification that notifies when there are people in the waiting room. There is a Admit and See Waiting Room buttons on the notification.

    Host will be notified when a user enters the waiting room.

    Waiting room on the participants list. There is an Admit and remove buttons next to a participant.
    • You’ll see the waiters from the Participants list.
    • Via Message function you can send a message to Waiting Room.
    • Admit all admits all the waiters to the meeting at once.
    • You can admit or remove single participants when moving cursor on participants name.

    Sending a Message to Waiting Room

    Zoom group chat window. There is an option to send message to everyone in waiting room or everyone in meeting.
    • Via Message function, you can send a message to the Waiting Room.
    • From Chat window you can also select ”Everyone (in Waiting Room)” as a receiver.
    • If a participant is attending on ar browser, the participant won’t see the message.
    • When participant enters the Waiting Room, the participant won’t see messages you’ve sent earlier.
    Unden Security button, there is an Enable Waiting Room option.

    Disabling the Waiting Room of the meeting

    You can disable the Waiting Room of the meeting. After disabling all the participants will enter straight to the meeting.

    The Waiting Room Settings

    You can edit the settings of your Waiting Room in Zoom Web Portal: https://hamk.zoom.us/profile/setting

    More information in Zoom Help Center: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000332726-Waiting-Room.


    in Online meetings, Online teaching, Zoom
    Tags: online meetings, Setting up the Waiting Room, Teacher, Using the Waiting Room, waiting room, Waiting Room for Zoom Meetings, Waiting Room Settings, zoom
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