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This article lists ways that meetings meeting hosts, alternative hosts, and co-hosts might

  • Deal with unexpected behavior during a Zoom meeting.

  • Prevent undesired behavior before scheduling meetings.

Go to Resolving Unexpected Behavior In Meetings for additional tips.

Note

Immediately install updates if prompted by Zoom to do so. The company regularly releases patches to address any security concerns.

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Hosts, alternative hosts, and co-hosts have immediate access to a variety of tools to mediate disruptions that may occur after a meeting starts. Skip to the preventive actions section of this article for tips on how to prevent undesired behavior before scheduling meetings.

Suspending Participants' Activities

You can quickly lock your meeting, hide user profiles, end screen sharing, disable chat, and shut down video and audio with one click.

Note

This action will apply to all participants in your meeting.

  1. Click Security in the bottom toolbar.

  2. Select Suspend Participants Activities.

  3. (Optional) Uncheck Report to Zoom if the disruption is just a minor issue.

  4. Click on the red Suspend button.

To enable features, you will need to manually enable each feature within the Security tab.

  1. Click on the Security icon in the bottom toolbar.

  2. Select the feature you want to enable. By default, the security pop-up window will save and close.

  3. Repeat Steps 1-2 to enable additional features.

Removing Participants

People may take advantage of unsecured Zoom meetings to drop in, promote their social media or businesses, share inappropriate materials, or cause trouble.

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Disallowing Participants to Join Before Host

Note

Do not enable join before host, as this allows people access to the meeting when it is not actually occurring.

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