Six Ways to Stop Uninvited Guests from Crashing Your Zoom Meeting

Many of us are working from home during these troubling times. We are looking towards technology to help us stay connected through virtual meetings.

Many people are using Zoom to connect during this time of physical distancing. However, gate-crashing or Zoom-bombing of Zoom meetings is now something you must manage.

What is Zoom-bombing? It means that someone who you did not explicitly invite to the virtual meeting shows up and tries to take over the meeting with disruptive content.

It seems that “trolls” will attend your meeting and often share graphic content. There are stories of trolls taking over the screen and sharing pornography and violent images.

Wow! Just what you need. 

If you are using Zoom, here’s six ways to ensure only the people who are invited attend your meeting:

1. Change your settings so that only the host can share their screen.
2. Don’t use your Personal Meeting ID for public meetings. Use a Zoom generated meeting ID for each meeting to stop people who aren’t invited from using an old link and crashing the meeting.
3. Don’t share the link to the Zoom meeting on Social Media or public event pages. This means anyone with the link can attend your event.
4. Use the Waiting Room option. This allows the meeting host to control who and when a participant joins the meeting.
5. Require participants to enter a password to join.
6. Lock the meeting after invitees have joined. This means that no one else can join, even if they have the link.

It is difficult enough to work remotely, without someone you don’t know hijacking your meeting.

Use the six ways above to ensure that only the people you invited to the meeting are there – and to ensure the content that’s shared is what you want shared!

If you want coaching on how to manage during these trying times contact me at Valerie.MacLeod@HainesCentre.com

I’d love to talk!