How to Allow External Participants in Zoom Meetings

Overview

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Staff members may disable the setting which restricts their Zoom meeting such that any participants must be logged in to Zoom in order to join. The SBLSD Technology Services department recommends keeping this setting enabled in most situations for security purposes, however there are valid use cases where temporarily enabling this feature may be necessary, such as when hosting remote parent-teacher conferences.

The Only authenticated users can join meetings from Web client setting is enabled for all staff by default, but can be toggled within your Zoom account settings.

When this setting is enabled, anyone attempting to join your Zoom meeting via a web browser will be required to log in to their Zoom account.

When this setting is disabled, anyone may join your Zoom meeting without an account.