Addressing Unwanted Participants During a Zoom Meeting

Issue/Question

How do I address unwanted participants during a Zoom meeting?

Environment

• Zoom

Cause

There is unwanted/inappropriate participation in a Zoom meeting that needs to be addressed. 

Resolution

• Interrupt an inappropriate participant share

  • As the host, you can disable someone’s shared content if needed.

• Remove the ability for all participants to share within the session

  • This can be done both before the session and during the session.

• Remove the participant in question

• Lock the session

  • Once you are happy with who is in your session, you can choose to lock your session, so that no one else may enter. 
    Note: If you have students late to a session, they may be locked out. You can unlock to let them enter, and re-lock once they've entered. 

• Prevent participants from renaming themselves

• Muting/Unmuting All Participants in a Zoom Meeting

  • As the host you can mute all participants in the meeting, so an unwanted participant utilizing audio can be silenced until the host can remove them.

Click here to learn how to prevent unwanted participants when scheduling Zoom meetings.