Protect yourself against unwanted guests sharing joining and trolling zoom sessions. Here are several steps you can take:
- Be sure to change the screensharing feature to “Host Only” before a call starts. This will prevent anyone else from sharing their screen without permission.
- Disable “Join Before Host”. This will stop people from joining the meeting before the host arrives and ensure nobody causes any trouble.
- Enable “Co-Host”. This will assign moderation duties to another host in your call.
- Disable “Allow Removed Participants to Rejoin”. This will prevent anyone who has already been kicked off the call to come back.
- If you have multiple instances of unwanted people joining their Personal meeting room, you should change their personal meeting ID to reduce exposure.
- If you are comfortable with scheduling, schedule your meetings with unique meeting IDs instead of repeatedly using the same meeting link.
- If you are not comfortable with scheduling, the users can go into their advanced zoom settings and give permission to someone else to schedule their meetings for them.
- Potentially enable a waiting room and users who join have to be allowed into the Zoom session
- Alternatively, require a password to join the session.
- If personal zoom meeting or recurring zoom meeting links have been shared on social media or on a princeton.edu site/subsite, they should be changed.
- Consider locking the meeting after it is underway to prevent anyone from joining.