This guide explains how to manually allow or deny participants to a kMeet meeting.

Preamble

• To approve participants, you must have the status of moderator.
• To be a moderator, you must either be the first to connect or be designated later.
• Generally, a person generates a kMeet and will therefore be the moderator throughout the meeting.
• However, if a meeting is created from the Infomaniak calendar, a kMeet link can be added, which will be accessible to all event participants; it is therefore recommended that the event initiator connect a little before the participants to configure their meeting (add a waiting room or a password etc.).

Approve or deny participants

To be a moderator:

1. Start kMeet via kmeet.infomaniak.com or from one of the apps for computers or mobile devices.
2. Click the button to start a new meeting:
   
3. Click the chevron below the meeting name to expand the advanced options.
4. Activate participant control:
   
5. Start the meeting.
6. Share the meeting link or code and, if necessary, the password and/or encryption key with your participants.
7. When your participants try to join the meeting, an audio notification invites you to allow or deny them to join the room:
   
8. You can also set a participant as a new moderator during the meeting, or just below, exclude them from the meeting:
   
9. The moderator can also remove the "waiting room" enabled in point 4 above once the meeting has started:
   1. Click on the icon ○○○ in the toolbar.
   2. Click on Security options:
      
   3. Disable the waiting room to no longer have to manage new arrivals in the meeting:
      

Moderation options

Other moderation options are available:

1. Click on the icon ○○○ in the toolbar.
2. Click on Settings:
   
3. Click on Moderation.
4. The options allow you to manage the expected behavior when new participants connect:
   
   1. all participants start with the microphone muted
   2. all participants start with the camera off
   3. all participants have the same interface display as the moderator (display of such participant in large on the layout, etc.), modifiable at any time by the users but the moderator can update at any time to force compliance
   4. recording will use the same interface display as the moderator (display of such participant in large on the layout, etc.)
   5. reaction emojis do not produce any sound