This article provides instructions on how to use Zoom meeting passwords to prevent unwanted guests effectively.
Instructions
In the interest of preventing “Zoombombing,” we have enabled additional security features which will reduce the risk of unwanted participants within your meeting. One of these features is requiring meeting passwords for all meetings.
Why Are Passwords Important?
When a person attempts to access random Zoom meetings, they almost always do this by randomly generating potential meeting ID’s and attempting to join the meeting at that ID. By creating a password, you automatically disallow any user using this method from joining.
Distributing Meeting Passwords
You can distribute a meeting password either on its own or include it in the meeting link you send to meeting participants.
By including the password in the meeting link, you allow meeting participants to bypass entering the password manually. This may seem like it defeats the purpose of a password, but it still prevents the most common Zoombombing vector, as described in the above section.
Editing Meeting Passwords
Zoom will automatically generate a meeting password for you. If you want a custom password, you can change it for scheduled meetings.
Log into Zoom and go to Meetings.
Under Upcoming Meetings, click the topic of the meeting you want to update.
Click Edit This Meeting.
Under Meeting Options, change the meeting password.
Click Save.
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