Be sure to let your participants know the passcode far enough in advance of the meeting they will be able to attend. Result: Only users who have the passcode will be able to join your meeting.

Be sure to click Schedule to save your settings and schedule your meeting.

Under Meeting Options select Require meeting passcode.

This option is set during meeting scheduling. Require a passcode to enter the room that you communicate only to attendees. MIT does not recommend allowing attendees to join any Zoom session without requiring either a passcode or Touchstone authentication. Open the Zoom Cloud Meetings app on your Windows PC or Mac. For uses other than remote teaching, if non-MIT attendees are invited, we strongly recommend requiring a meeting passcode.For sessions that are part of our remote teaching effort, we strongly urge allowing only Touchstone-authenticated participants.To reduce disruption to your Zoom sessions from those who are not the intended invitees, MIT strongly recommends the following guidelines for all MIT Zoom meeting hosts: Other platforms and devices will vary slightly.

The instructions below were created on the Zoom desktop app for MacOS. Zoom has published a blog post with several recommendations. Protect your virtual interactions and minimize disruption, intentional or unintentional, to your Zoom meetings and online classes by managing access and features to ensure a positive and productive teaching, learning, and working environment.

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