Engaging Virtual Meetings

4Managing Participants

Learning how to manage participants is a key step in an engaging meeting. Learning how to mute people who have background noise or turning on and off video is a key role of a host that helps remove unnecessary distractions from your virtual meetings. In addition, the participants feature gives multiple ways for attendees to communicate with you.

Mute and Unmute Audio and Video

Zoom

• Step 1: Click “Participants.”

• Step 2: You can mute and unmute participants by hovering the mouse over their name and clicking “Mute” or “Unmute.”

 

This feature also allows the host to turn off video.

• Step 1: Click “Participants.”
• Step 2: Hover over the participant's name and click “More.”
• Step 3: Click “Stop Video.”

You can ask a participant to turn on their video.

• Step 1: Click “Participants.”
• Step 2: Hover over the participant's name and click “More.”
• Step 3: Click “Ask to Start Video.”

  

• Step 4: The participant will see a dialog box that gives them the choice to “Start My Video” or “Later,” meaning they will start their video later.

Microsoft Teams

 

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