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 into the Zoom web portal at https://pdx.zoom.us/
2. In the navigation panel, click Settings.
3. Click the Meeting tab.
4. Under In Meeting (Basic), verify that the Co-host setting is enabled.
   
5. If the setting is disabled, click the toggle to enable it. If a verification dialog displays, click Turn On to verify the change.

There are two ways to make a participant a co-host during a meeting.

Once the guest is admitted:

1. Hover over their video.
2. Click the ellipsis (….) icon.
3. Click Make Co-Host.

Or use the participants panel:

1. Click Participants in the meeting controls at the bottom of the Zoom window.
2. In the participants panel, hover over the name of the guest who will co-host, and choose More.
3. Click Make Co-Host.