Co-Hosts

The host must assign a co-host. There is no limitation on the number of co-hosts you can have in a meeting or webinar.

Make sure the co-host feature is enabled via your ‘Settings’ – ‘In-Meeting (Basic)’ on the zoom.us website

Co-hosts CANNOT

End meeting for all participants
Make another participant a co-host
Start breakout rooms or move participants from one breakout room to another
Start waiting room (co-hosts can place participants in waiting room or admit/remove participants from the waiting room)

Mute participants (and request that a participant unmutes)
Stop a participant’s video (and request that a participant starts their video)
Prevent participants from screen sharing
Rename a participant
Put a participant on hold (if this feature is enabled)
Choose to play an enter or exit chime
Lock the meeting to prevent anyone new from joining
Manage the Waiting Room (once it is started by the Host) – place participants in waiting room or admit/remove participants from the waiting room (waiting room can only be enabled by the host)

Ways they could support you (so you can focus on running/facilitating/presenting the meeting):

Welcoming people at the start
Welcome latecomers (perhaps via Chat)
Mute people (when appropriate)
As co-presenters – to break up style and flow of a meeting
Keeping an eye on the Chat
Keeping an eye on Participants – both on screen and in the Participants list (hands up, icon feedback etc.)
Someone to write important notes, references, names, contact details etc. into Chat (being careful not to overwhelm the chat – e.g. not minuting what’s being said).
Answer technical or simple questions in the Chat

Make sure you agree how they should get your attention.

Consider sharing mobile numbers and communicating anything important via WhatsApp or text

Click on ‘Participants’ button in the meeting controls at the bottom of the Zoom window
Hover over the name of the participant who is going to be a co-host, and choose More …
Click Make Co-Host