Scheduling moderated meetings
Meeting hosts and delegates with Pro permissions can schedule moderated meetings, which only start when a moderator joins. Until a moderator joins, moderated meeting attendees cannot interact with each other. The audio, video, screen sharing, meeting chat, and visual roster remain unavailable. After moderated meetings start, those features become available until the meeting ends, even if the moderators leave the meeting.
By default, meeting hosts and delegates have moderator permission, and a meeting can have more than one moderator. Hosts and delegates can share the moderator passcode with other attendees, and they can also join the meeting as moderators. When they do, they can lock, record, and end meetings, and mute all other attendees. For more information, see Moderator actions using the Amazon Chime app and Moderator actions using phone or in-room video systems.
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Joining a meeting as a moderator
To join a meeting, moderators enter the moderator passcode. Moderators can enter the passcode via phone, supported in-room video systems, or the Amazon Chime desktop client, web app, or mobile app. When meeting hosts or delegates join while signed in to the desktop client, they automatically connect to the meeting as moderators without having to enter the moderator passcode.
Note
Alexa for Business doesn't support joining a meeting as a moderator.
Scheduling a moderated meeting
Schedule moderated meetings from the Amazon Chime app.
To schedule a moderated meeting
From the Amazon Chime app, choose Meetings, Schedule a meeting.
In the Meeting scheduling assistant, select Generate a new ID and require moderator to start.
Enter a 4-8 digit moderator passcode.
Finish selecting your other meeting options.
Choose Copy moderator info to copy and paste the moderator information for your moderated meeting.
Send the moderator information to the attendees who will moderate the meeting. To protect the moderator passcode, the Amazon Chime meeting invite doesn't contain moderator information. You must send that information to moderators separately.
Note
You can't add or change the moderator passcodes for an existing meeting. If you forget the moderator passcode, reschedule the meeting with a new meeting ID and passcode.
If you use one of the Amazon Chime Outlook Add-Ins, to schedule a moderated meeting, select Generate a new ID and require moderator to start and enter a moderator passcode. Send the moderator passcode to one or more attendees who will act as moderators.
Attendees who have the moderator passcode can become moderators by entering the passcode after they join the meeting. To enter the moderator passcode during a meeting in progress, choose More from the Amazon Chime app, then choose Enter moderator passcode.
Moderator actions using the Amazon Chime app
If moderators sign in to a moderated meeting using any of the Amazon Chime apps, those moderators can perform the same actions as meeting hosts and delegates. For a list of available actions, see Hosting meetings.
If a moderator joins a moderated meeting without signing in, they can use the following subset of host actions:
Mute all other attendees.
Start and stop recording the meeting.
Lock and unlock the meeting.
End the meeting for all attendees.
Moderator actions using phone or in-room video systems
When joining a moderated meeting over the phone or an in-room video system, moderators can perform the following additional meeting actions from the dial pad:
Mute all other attendees – *97
Start and stop meeting recording – *2
Note
If you use a phone or in-room conferencing system to start recording, the host receives the recording by default.
Lock and unlock meeting – *4
End meeting for all – ##
See menu (in-room video system only) – *0
Any meeting attendee, including moderators, can press *7 to mute and unmute themselves.
