Use this tutorial to enable waiting rooms and customize a message to appear for those that join the meeting room.
Zoom meeting waiting room image.
Enabling the waiting room from the advanced features see enabling the waiting room will enable the waiting room for your personal meeting room as well.
The active participant can share screen.
Sending participants to the waiting room during a meeting.
Learn more about how waiting rooms work.
In the case of zoom the participants can either be in the waiting room or an active participant.
You can customize your zoom waiting room by adding your picture a company logo a title and a descriptio.
As the meeting host click participants.
As the meeting host click chat.
Click more next to the participant s name and choose put in waiting room.
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.
The zoom waiting room is a great security feature.
That means meeting organizers have to manually allow guests to enter the meeting preventing unwanted guests.
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.
The lobby can be considered as the waiting room.
To enable or disable the waiting room for meetings using your personal meeting room id not ideal for security you will need to access the zoom web portal.
Starting today zoom meetings will have the waiting room feature enabled by default.