Zoom meeting roles: co-hosts and alternative hosts

Zoom defines meeting management roles as:

• Host: The user that scheduled the meeting. They have full permissions to manage the meeting. There can only be one host of a meeting.
• Co-host: Shares most of the controls that hosts have, such as managing attendees. The host must assign a co-host during the meeting. Co-hosts cannot start a meeting.
• Alternative host: Shares the same controls as co-hosts, but can also start the meeting. Hosts can assign alternative hosts when they schedule a meeting.

Co-hosts may be non-PSU guests

A co-host may be a meeting participant from outside the PSU community. To admit a non-PSU participant to your meeting, first adjust the default sign-in requirement from PSU account membership to any Zoom account. Once the guest is admitted to your meeting, you can assign them the co-host role.

Next, make sure your own account settings have the co-host role enabled.

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal at https://pdx.zoom.us/
2. In the navigation panel, click Settings (1).
3. Select the Meeting tab (2).