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

Introduction

• To approve participants, you must have moderator status.
• To be a moderator, you must either be the first to connect or be designated later.
• In general, a person generates a kMeet and will therefore be the moderator throughout the meeting.
• However, if a meeting is created in the Infomaniak calendar, a kMeet link will be available to all event participants; it is therefore recommended that the event initiator log in a bit before the participants to set up 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 applications for computers or mobile devices.
2. Click on the button to start a new meeting.
3. Click on the dropdown arrow ‍ below to expand the advanced options.
4. Enable 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 prompts you to allow or deny them entry to the room.

You can designate a participant as a new moderator during the meeting.

Moderation options

Other moderation options are available:

1. Click on the ○○○ icon in the toolbar.
2. Click on the icon ○○○ in the right sidebar:
   
3. For example, choose to stop the video of all participants and access the settings from ○○○ at the bottom:
   
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 users but the moderator can update at any time to force the follow-up
   4. reaction emojis do not make any sound