Hosting Office Hours with Zoom

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The Waiting Room

The waiting room feature allows you to control when students join your meeting. This is useful when conducting Office Hours as it allows privacy between you and a student when discussing grades, feedback, ongoing projects or sensitive information. You'll have the ability to admit students one by one, hold them all in the waiting room, or admit them all at once. Once you have admitted a student into the meeting from the meeting room, you can send the student back to the waiting room and admit another student.

First

Make sure to enable the Waiting Room feature for your meeting rooms by:

  1. Signing into the Zoom Portal (https://uky.zoom.us Links to an external site.)
  2. Click on Settings (in the menu to the left)
  3. On the Meeting tab, scroll to find the Waiting Room option under In-Meeting (Advanced) and enable the setting.

 Check out the Zoom Waiting Room Links to an external site. knowledge base article to learn more.