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Tips to keep your Zoom meeting more secure
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- Students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Guests
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Below are some tips to secure your Zoom meetings from unwanted attendees, those tips are especially important if meeting links are publicly shared.
Enable waiting room
- Place participants in a waiting room to be admitted by the host instead of directly admitting them to the meeting.
- Under Zoom Settings -> Meeting -> Security, enable Waiting Room.
- Tips on using Waiting Room
Enable passcode
- Require a passcode to enter a meeting.
- Under Zoom Settings -> Meeting -> Security, enable Require a passcode when scheduling new meetings.
- Edit existing meeting and check the Passcode option under Security, remember to pass the Passcode to invitees.
Require K-State authentication to join
- When scheduling a meeting, check Require authentication to join and select KSU Zoom Authenticated Users.
- This setting would require all attendees to be logged into their @k-state.edu Zoom account on their Zoom app and would disallow guests and external Zoom person to join the meeting. If your meeting consist of only K-Staters, you may wish to set up this requirement.
- For steps to log into K-State Zoom account, see Logging into your K-State Zoom account.
Muting participants
- Under Zoom Settings -> Meeting -> Schedule Meeting, enable Mute all participants when they join a meeting.
- Edit existing meeting, click Show next to Options, check Mute participants upon entry.
- In a meeting, click Participants -> More -> Mute all upon entry will further give you the option to uncheck Allow participants to unmute themselves. Making the host/co-host the only one who can mute/unmute.
- In a meeting, click Participants -> More -> uncheck Unmute themselves under Allow participants to: will disallow participants from unmuting themselves. Making the host/co-host the only one who can mute/unmute.
Disallow participants from screen sharing
- Under Zoom Settings -> Meeting -> In Meeting (Basic), under Screen sharing and Who can share? Select Host Only.
- In a meeting, click the arrow next to Share -> Advanced sharing options... Select Host only under Who can share?
Disallow participants from showing Video
- In a meeting, click Participants -> More -> uncheck Start Video under Allow participants to: will disallow participants from starting their video (generally their webcam).
Remove participants from meeting
- In a meeting, click Participants, find the participant you wish to remove, click More to the right of their name and click Remove to remove them from the meeting.
Lock Meeting
- In a meeting, click Participants -> More -> Lock meeting will disallow any further participants to join the meeting.
For further tips, see Zoom's Securing Your Meetings guide.