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This article will provide ways to deal with unexpected behavior among Zoom meeting participants.

Note

Please immediately install updates if prompted to do so by Zoom. The company regularly releases patches to address any security concerns.

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To avoid letting in uninvited participants in the first place, you can lock your Zoom meeting so no one can join after a certain point. Keep in mind that this may keep out legitimate students as well. A good middle ground is to implement waiting rooms (see Using Waiting Rooms).

  1. Click Security in the bottom toolbar.

  2. Click Lock Meeting. This will automatically turn away anyone attempting to join the meeting.

To unlock the meeting, repeat the same steps.

Also see Using Waiting Rooms

Stopping Participants' Screen Sharing

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This is the most effective preventative measure. By selecting Enable When using the Waiting Room, you will need to manually allow each participant participants into the meeting as they join.

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You can set a password which is required to join the meeting, preventing anyone who doesn’t have the password from joining. You will need to The password is “embedded” in the meeting link, so most participants will not need to enter the meeting password. However, some people may need to manually enter the password so you should distribute this password to all meeting participants beforehand.

Join Before Host - Do not use

Please do not enable join before host, as this allows people access to the meeting when it is not actually occurring.

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