Member Minute: Zoom Bombing

Hans Mundahl

Welcome to EMA’s Member Minute where I’ll be teaching you an actionable strategy, tip, trick, or hack to help you meet your enrollment goals and all that in about a minute.

Zoom Bombing is unauthorized users coming into your Zoom meeting and being rude or disrespectful. Here’s how to avoid it:

Never publish ‘join meeting’ links on your website or social media
Set a passcode for your meeting and
Turn off ‘embed passcode in invite link’ so users have to type in the passcode
Consider turning on ‘Require Registration’ and then checking your attendee list prior to the meeting
Turn on the Waiting Room and only admit permitted attendees

If someone does get in who shouldn’t be there hosts can take the following steps:

Mute them
Send them to the waiting room
Or even remove them from the call

That’s been your Member Minute if you have questions I look forward to connecting with you inside EMA’s member community.

About the Author

Hans Mundahl is the Director of Professional Development at EMA. He has been an educator since 1995 when he first stepped into the classroom as a Fulbright exchange teacher in the former East Germany. Since then Hans has done just about every job possible at an independent school from teacher to administrator. Most recently Hans was the head of school at a K-8 day school in central New Hampshire. Hans’s spare time is usually spent with his family but he is also passionate about the outdoors and protecting the environment.
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