User Community Feedback

There have been several enhancements requested for the pre-meeting lobby, including

• Customisation of the lobby waiting room (banner, background, welcome messages)

• The ability to communicate with persons in the lobby

• A button to send all participants to the lobby

• Control hub reporting of lobby use

• and others too that may be worthy of consideration

But as far as I can see, there has been no suggestion to make it possible to change the behaviour of how the meeting behaves when it is unlocked - this choice seems locked in concrete AT THE TIME OF SCHEDULING - allowing for the scheduler to set up guest access so that:

• ( ) Guests can join the meeting

• (o) Guests wait in the lobby until the host admits them

• ( ) Guests can't join the meeting

which means that a host cannot fully unlock a meeting if the (o) Guests wait in the lobby until the host admits them option was set during scheduling.

This post is a plea to allow hosts to control the lobby options during a meeting.

The way I see it being implemented is that instead of simply having the option to Lock/unlock a meeting, the host should have a 3 way option

1. Lock

2. Lock guests only

3. Unlock

Option 1 would mean ALL new participants go to the lobby

Option 2 would mean Guests wait in the lobby until the host admits them

Option 3 would mean Guests can join the meeting

Given the confusion that has arisen around this topic, I believe this option requires urgent attention

RedNectar