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Introduction

This page explains how to prevent Zoombombing, and how to respond to it if it happens in one of your class meetings.

Zoombombing is when uninvited participants join a Zoom meeting, usually revealing their presence in offensive ways. Zoombombing is possible when an intruder finds, receives, or guesses a Zoom meeting ID for an unprotected meeting.

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How to Prevent and Respond to Zoombombing


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How to

Prevent

Respond to Zoombombing

As a meeting host, you should enable the following settings to secure your meeting:

Require meeting password

Enabling this will prevent anyone without the password from using a meeting ID to join the meeting.

People who click on the link in your meeting invitation don't need to enter the password.

Enable waiting room

This option allows you to manually admit each person one by one. If you have a small group of attendees, this is another easy way to protect your meeting from intruders.

You should not do this for classes.

Only authenticated users can joinThis requires all attendees to be logged in to Zoom with their username and password, making it difficult for anonymous users to join your meeting.Lock meeting

Once your participants have all joined the meeting you can lock the meeting, so no one else can join.

  1. Click on Participants.
  2. Click on More.
  3. Select Lock Meeting.

You can follow the same steps to unlock your meeting if necessary.

How to Respond to Zoombombing

Follow these steps to block or remove a user.

When UsingStepWhat to DoComputer
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From a Zoom Classroom

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WhenStepWhat to doHow to do it
During the Meeting1Remove the user from the meeting.
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StepWhat to Do
1Touch Manage Participants to open the Participants menu.
2Touch the user's name in the participants list.
3Touch Remove.
4Confirm you would like to remove the user.
2

Lock your meeting.

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StepWhat to do
1Touch the Security option on the Zoom touch panel.
2Touch Lock Meeting.
After the Meeting1Change Your Meeting Passcode.
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StepWhat to do

1

Navigate to biola.zoom.us/meeting.

2Click the meeting.
3Click Edit this Meeting at the bottom of page.
4Click All.
5Replace the current text in the Passcode textbox with at least random digits (letters or numbers).
6Click Save at the bottom.
Note: Updating the passcode will change the meeting link. The link will automatically update in Canvas for your students, but you should let them know the link has changed so they can update the link if they have bookmarked or saved it.
2Report it to IT via Email (it.helpdesk@biola.edu) or phone (562.903.4740).

Give IT the Following Details:

  • What exactly happened.
  • The approximate day/time it happened.
  • What meeting was affected (ideally the Meeting ID, but meeting name will do as well).
  • The name or description of the offending user.


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WhenStepWhat to doHow to do it
During the Meeting1Remove the user from the meeting.
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StepWhat to Do
1Click Participants to open the Participants sidebar.
2Mouse over the user in the participants list.
3Click More.
4

Select Stop Video just to stop the user's video. They can't re-enable it without your approval.

Select Remove to remove the user from the meeting. They won't be able to join the meeting again.

Select Report to report the user to Zoom's Trust and Safety team for review.

Zoom Classroom
2

Lock your meeting.

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StepWhat to Do
1
Touch Manage Participants to open the Participants menu

Click the Security option on the Zoom menu bar.

2
Touch the user's name in the participants list.3Touch Remove.4Confirm you would like to remove the

Click Lock Meeting.

After the Meeting1Change Your Meeting Passcode.
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StepWhat to do

1

Navigate to biola.zoom.us/meeting.

2Click the meeting.
3Click Edit this Meeting at the bottom of page.
4Click All.
5Replace the current text in the Passcode textbox with at least random digits (letters or numbers).
6Click Save at the bottom.
Note: Updating the passcode will change the meeting link. The link will automatically update in Canvas for your students, but you should let them know the link has changed so they can update the link if they have bookmarked or saved it.
2Report it to IT via Email (it.helpdesk@biola.edu) or phone (562.903.4740).

Give IT the Following Details:

  • What exactly happened.
  • The approximate day/time it happened.
  • What meeting was affected (ideally the Meeting ID, but meeting name will do as well).
  • The name or description of the offending user.