See also: Secure your meetings with Zoom waiting rooms or watch this quick video to see how to set one up and use.

Create a Waiting Room for Attendees Waiting Rooms allow you to control when attendees can enter the meeting.

Use it for one-on-one meetings, office hours, etc., but be careful how broadly you distribute it.

Protect your Personal Meeting ID (PMI) This is a persistent Room connected to your account.

Only share your room ID with the participants you want to attend Do not publish your room IDs on public websites or distribute broadly via large email DLs.

Faculty using the Zoom/ Canvas integration are discouraged from creating recurring meetings. Be aware that the longer you use a Room ID the greater the chance it gets discovered.

Use a unique Zoom Room ID It can be tempting to create a room ID once and then re-use over again as if it were a persistent space.

Please note: if you are hosting a large public event in Zoom see Zoom for Public Events.

You can also set default meeting behaviors in your profile so that every future meeting you create inherits those settings. Protecting your meeting happens when you are initially scheduling the meeting.

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