Waiting Rooms help control who comes into your zoom sessions. Follow the steps in this article to learn how to allow participants into your zoom sessions from the waiting room.
Enabling or Disabling Waiting Rooms
1. In your zoom session, click Host tools at the bottom of your screen.
2. From the menu that opens, you can check or uncheck Enable waiting rooms top of the menu.
Send Participants to Waiting Room
1. From your Zoom session, click Participants from the bottom menu.
2. Click the 3 dots to the right of their name.
3. Click Put in waiting room.
Admitting Participants into Your Zoom Session
1. At the top of your screen you will see a popup that notifies you that someone joined the meeting. Click the Admit button to let them in.
If you do not see this popup follow the steps below and to learn how to message participants in the waiting room
2. From your Zoom session, click Participants from the bottom menu.
3. On the right side of the screen, hover your mouse over the participant and click the blue Admit button that appears.
Send Messages to Waiting Room
1. From your Zoom session, click Participants from the bottom menu.
2 You can also Message users in the waiting room by clicking the Message button.
3. Type your message into the chat box window that opens up and click the send button on the bottom right corner.
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