Zoom: Apply a Waiting Room to a Meeting

Overview

When the Waiting Room feature is applied to a meeting, the leader may choose to manually admit or remove participants. Until the participants are fully admitted into the meeting, they view a message on their screen with a statement similar to "Please wait for the meeting host to admit you."

The Waiting Room option may be applied to the session before it starts or engaged during the session via the Host tools icon on the toolbar.

Instructions

Apply the Waiting Room During the Scheduling Process

  1. Go to tennessee.zoom.us and select Create or Edit Account, or open your Zoom desktop app. 
  2. Schedule a new meeting (or edit an existing meeting).
  3. Locate the Waiting Room option and add a check beside the option to apply it to the meeting.

Apply the Waiting Room During a Session (in real-time)

  1. Select the Host tools icon on the meeting toolbar.
  2. Choose the Waiting Room option.  

Move a Participant to the Waiting Room

  1. Select the Participants icon on the meeting toolbar. 
  2. Navigate the cursor over the participant's name.
  3. An icon will appear with three dots. Select this icon.
  4. Select Put in Waiting Room. 
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