Hosting and Role Privileges in Zoom

Host/Co-Host Roles

Hosts are able to assign co-host roles to anyone in the meeting. Co-hosts can help manage the administrative side of the meeting, like managing participants and starting the recording.

Co-hosts cannot:

• Start the meeting
• Start closed captioning
• Start live-streaming
• End the meeting for all participants
• Make another participant a co-host
• Start breakout rooms or move participants to another breakout room
• Start waiting room (though they are able to add and remove participants from the waiting room)

Making someone a co-host:

1. Click Participants in the control panel.
   
   
2. Click More next to the participant's name. 
   
   
3. Click Make Co-Host.
   

If you would like to learn more about adding a co-host, check out the Enabling & Adding a Cohost page at the Zoom Help Center.

Host and Co-Host Controls:

 

• • Mute/Unmute
    • Audio Controls (Click the ^ next to Mute/Unmute): This lets you change the microphone and speaker that Zoom is using on your computer, leave computer audio, and access all audio options.
  • Start/Stop Video
    • Video Controls (Click the ^ next to Start/Stop Video): Select which camera Zoom should use, access the full video controls, and select a Virtual Background.
  • Security: View and enable different security measures like locking the meeting, enabling/disabling screensharing, allowing participants to rename themselves, and other measures.
  • Participants: View your list of meeting participants.
  • Chat: View the chat.
  • Share Screen: Share your screen.
  • Record: Record the meeting.
  • Live Transcript (only available to the host): Turns on the live transcript feature and allows participants to view captions.
  • Breakout Rooms (only available to the host): Open and configure breakout rooms.
  • Reactions: Choose reactions and emojis to share with participants.
  • End Meeting (only available to the host): Ends the meeting for all.
  • Polling (only available to the host): Create, edit, and launch polls. Note: depending on if you are using Mac or Windows, polling may show up in a different spot along the bottom bar.
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Note: When you are screensharing, the controls will appear at the top of the screen and you can drag them to another location.

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To learn more about Host and Co-Host controls explore the Host and Co-Host Controls page at the Zoom Help Center.

Described in the table below are the privileges that different types of Zoom users have in a meeting. 

Roles	Share Screen	Request/Receive Remote Control	Start Polling	Designtate a Co-Host	Set Up Polling	Start/End Breakout Rooms	Start/End Recording	End a Meeting
Meeting owner	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Alternative host	X	X	X	X
Host who is not the meeting owner or alternative host	X	X	X
Co-host	X	X
Participant	X	X