Steps to Secure, Before the Meeting
1. Turn on your waiting room.
- Make the waiting room your default account setting, for public meetings.
- View and admit participants as needed
- Remove participants and prevent their return.
To enable Waiting Room for individual use:
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Sign in to the Zoom web portal https://nccu-edu.zoom.us
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In the navigation panel, click Settings.
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Click the Meeting tab.
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Under Security, verify that Waiting Room is enabled
Note: If the setting is disabled, click the toggle to enable it. If a verification dialog displays, click Turn On to verify the change.
2. Require a passcode to join.
- Newly scheduled personal or public meetings.
- Don’t use and post personal meeting ID for public meetings.
3. Only Allow Registered and Domain Verified Users.
- Require attendees to register with their e-mail, name, and custom questions.
- Restricts participants to those who are logged into Zoom.
- Restrict it to Zoom users who’s email address uses a certain domain (NCCU).
Note: Your setting should look like the picture below.
Steps to Secure, During the Meeting
1. Master the Security Menu.
Click the Security icon, hosts and co-hosts have an all-in-one place to quickly:
- Lock the meeting,
- Enable the Waiting Room (even if it’s not already enabled), and
- Remove participants.
Restrict participants’ ability to:
- Share their screens,
- Chat in a meeting,
- Rename themselves, and
- Annotate on the host’s shared content.