Zoom calls have become the new normal in today’s pandemic world, especially for users who regularly organize meetings. All meetings, classes or even regular calls are conducted via Zoom. However, when you’re hosting a conference, webinar, or other type of virtual event, you may need help managing it smoothly.
In a Zoom meeting, especially when there are many participants, it will be difficult for the organizer to manage everyone. This is where the co-host option comes into play. By having more meeting organizers, you can organize the meeting and focus on the meeting agenda.
The Zoom app has a feature to assign a meeting co-host for such situations. We’ll show you how to assign a co-host in Zoom on Windows and Android. With that said, let’s get straight to the article itself.
Who exactly is the co-host?
Before we go ahead and look at the steps to assign a co-host in Zoom on Windows and Android devices, let’s first understand exactly who a co-host is.
You can view the co-host as an extra helper to the meeting. You can assign administrative control and other storage privileges to other users to take the burden of meeting management off your shoulders.
The controls can be anything from managing meeting participants or starting/stopping recording. You can now set or designate as many co-hosts as you like for a meeting or webinar.
Making someone a co-host comes with some benefits and drawbacks
Benefits of Designating a Co-Host
You can multi-task and focus on the agenda. Meanwhile, the Co-Organizer can manage and help other meeting participants. Even though you choose a co-host, you still have the right to join the meeting and end the meeting.
Limitations of co-hosts
Co-hosts cannot change organizers or elect other co-hosts. Additionally, co-hosts cannot start closed captioning or go live. Similarly, a co-host cannot end a meeting for all participants or start a waiting room.
Prerequisites
You need to enable co-hosting on your Zoom account first before you can assign roles in a Zoom meeting. An important point to note here is that this feature is only available on the paid version of the Zoom account.
Although the free version has many features of its own, they are all basic after all. There are some perks available on the paid version of a Zoom account, such as assigning a co-host. So you need to upgrade to Pro version or higher to use the co-host feature.
How to enable Co-host on Zoom account
Here are the steps you need to take on your Zoom account to enable co-hosting.
Step 1: Visit the Zoom website on your browser and log in with your Zoom credentials.
Step 2: Click the MY ACCOUNT button located in the upper right corner of the Zoom website.
Step 3: You will see many options in the left pane. Click Install.
Step 4: Click the In Meeting (Basic) option and look for the Co-host option and toggle the On switch.
After you enable Co-host on your Zoom account, you can designate a co-host in the meeting.
How to specify a co-host in Zoom on Windows
Here’s how you can designate a meeting co-host on the Zoom for Windows app.
Step 1: Download the latest version of the Zoom desktop app from the official website.
Step 2: Sign in with your account and start the meeting.
Step 3: Click on any participant you want to co-host to bring up the meeting interface center. Then right-click on the video feed and select the Make Co-host option.
Step 4: Click on the Make Co-host option and a confirmation message will appear. Here, select Yes to confirm the action.
Step 5: Alternatively, you can designate any participant to be a co-host from the right side of the Zoom meeting interface. All you need to do is bring your cursor to the participant’s name, right-click on it, and select the Make Co-host option.
Step 6: A confirmation dialog will pop up in which you have to click the Yes button to confirm your action.
How to assign a co-host on the Zoom app for Android
If you’re using the Zoom Android app, you can also designate a co-host in a Zoom meeting using the app. Here are the steps:
Step 1: Install the latest version of the Zoom Android app on your smartphone from the Google Play Store.
Step 2: Open the app and log in to your account.
Step 3: Start the meeting. Once all the participants have joined the meeting, from the bottom menu bar select the Participants option.
Step 4: Click on the participant’s name. From the list of options that appears, select the Create co-host option.
Step 5: A confirmation dialog box will appear. You need to click the Yes button to confirm the action.
That’s how you can choose someone to co-host your meeting.
Get help with Zoom
We hope this guide has clarified everything about how to assign co-hosts in Zoom on Windows and the Android app. You can follow the same steps and click or tap the Remove co-host button to remove the assigned participant’s role.
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