Waiting Rooms

In your Zoom web portal, click settings on the left-hand side of the navigation menu, scroll through settings. 

Meeting Settings

• Enable Waiting Room 

Admitting participants during a meeting

• As the meeting host, click Manage Participants.

• Click Admit to have the participant join the meeting.

Admit all participants from the Waiting Room

• As the meeting host, click Participants.

• Click Admit all.

Sending participants to the Waiting Room during a meeting

• As the meeting host, click Participants.

• Click More next to the participant's name and choose Put in Waiting Room.

Sending messages to participants in the Waiting Room

• As the meeting host, click Chat.

• Click the dropdown next to To:

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• Click Everyone (in Waiting Room). Type and send your chat message to the Waiting Room. 

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• Once the message has been sent, the participants in the Waiting Room will see the message on the Waiting Room screen:

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