Click add waiting room description to add a description to the waiting room.
Zoom waiting room logo.
Learn more about how waiting rooms work.
Under the security section verify the waiting room feature is enabled.
That means meeting organizers have to manually allow guests to enter the meeting preventing unwanted guests.
Click the group name then click the meeting tab.
Learn how to use waiting rooms during a meeting.
They cannot exceed 1mb.
The description is limited to 400 characters.
Zoom provides the capability to control who is admitted to your meetings even after you ve joined as the host using a feature called waiting room.
Sign in to the zoom web portal as an administrator with the privilege to edit groups.
You can send all participants to the waiting room when joining your meeting or you can allow participants from your zoom account and participants at specified domains to bypass the waiting room.
Customize the waiting room.
When you enable the waiting room feature y ou can add a title logo and text to the waiting room message that meeting participants see while they re waiting which is great for logistical reasons.
The minimum height and width is 60px and the maximum is 400px.
Once the change takes effect a host of a zoom meeting will need to manually admit who can attend a video session.
You can customize the waiting room title logo and description at an account group or user level.
To enable waiting room for all members of a specific group.
In the navigation click user management then group management.
Starting today zoom meetings will have the waiting room feature enabled by default.
However the waiting room feature does come at the cost of some convenience.
Use this tutorial to enable waiting rooms and customize a message to appear for those that join the meeting room.