Protect yourself against unwanted guests sharing joining and trolling zoom sessions. Here are several steps you can take:

  1. 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.
  2. Disable “Join Before Host”. This will stop people from joining the meeting before the host arrives and ensure nobody causes any trouble.
  3. Enable “Co-Host”. This will assign moderation duties to another host in your call.
  4. Disable “Allow Removed Participants to Rejoin”. This will prevent anyone who has already been kicked off the call to come back.
  5. If you have multiple instances of unwanted people joining their Personal meeting room, you should change their personal meeting ID to reduce exposure.
    1. If you are comfortable with scheduling, schedule your meetings with unique meeting IDs instead of repeatedly using the same meeting link.
    2. 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.
  6. Potentially enable a waiting room and users who join have to be allowed into the Zoom session
  7. Alternatively, require a password to join the session.
  8. 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.
  9. Consider locking the meeting after it is underway to prevent anyone from joining.