Overview
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.
This article covers:
- Controls for hosts and co-hosts
- Order of participants
Click here to see Zoom's Controls for managing participants
Prerequisites
- Host permissions in the meeting, or co-host permission (set by the host)
- Join by Zoom desktop client, mobile app, or web (Limited controls are available when joining by web)
Order of participants
Names in the participants list appear in the following order:
- You
- The host (If you’re not the host)
- Phone numbers with no names
- Unmuted participants (sorted alphabetically)
- 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
- 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 enabled
- 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
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Enable waiting room