Using Zoom Meeting

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As the host in a meeting, you can manage the participants. By default, any participant in a meeting can share their video, screen, and audio. If you want to limit who can share their screen, video, and audio, we recommend using the webinar platform. For a full comparison of these options, see our meeting and webinar comparison.

This article covers:

• Controls for hosts and co-hosts

• Order of participants

• Controls for managing participants

Prerequisites for managing participants in a meeting

• Host permissions in the meeting, or co-host permission (set by the host)

• Join by Zoom desktop client, mobile app, or web client*

Some options have additional prerequisites and must be enabled on the web portal or require a specific version of Zoom for full functionality. These features include giving a participant the ability to record locally, assigning a co-host, putting a participant on-hold and using the waiting room.

*Limited controls are available when joining by web.

Order of participants

Names in the participants list appear in the following order:

1. You

2. The host (If you’re not the host)

3. Phone numbers with no names

4. Unmuted participants (sorted alphabetically)

5. Muted participants (sorted alphabetically)

Controls for hosts and co-hosts

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

• Mute participants

• Request that a participant unmutes or unmutes (with pre-approved consent)

• 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 waiting room is disabled)

• 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