Manage your meeting participants

During regular or Webex scheduled meetings, you can manage your participants and grant them certain controls for more coordinated and organized meetings. 

Mute all participants 

During a regular meeting associated with a space, anyone can mute all participants. Everyone except for the person muting and the current presenter gets muted.

In a Webex scheduled meeting, Personal Room meeting, or enhanced meeting associated with a space, only the host or cohost can mute everyone. If you mute everyone as the host or cohost, everyone, except you and the current presenter, gets muted.

1. Go to the participants list and click Mute All.
2. Check Allow attendees to unmute themselves and then click Mute all.
   Note: When Allow attendees to unmute themselves in unchecked, Mute on entry is turned on, so anyone who joins the meeting late is muted automatically. If you don't want to mute attendees as they join the meeting, go to More options in the participants list and uncheck Mute on entry.

When you mute yourself, you stay muted, even when someone else selects Unmute all.

To unmute everyone, go to the participants list and select Unmute all. When you mute yourself, you stay muted, even when someone else selects Unmute all.

Mute specific participants

1. During an active meeting, go to the participants list, click the person's name, and select mute. If you want to unmute someone, click the mute icon beside the person's name in the participants list.
2. If you see the muted lock icon next to the person’s name, they can't unmute themselves. Hover over the muted lock and click Request unmute to send a request to the attendee to unmute themselves.
3. Hosts and cohosts can manage meeting participants' audio without navigating to the Participants list. Hover over a participant's video feed, click More options, and then select Mute.
   

Presenter controls for all attendees

As a host or cohost, you can grant controls to attendees so that they can share during the meeting, and make someone a presenter directly from their video thumbnail or the participant panel. 

1. Join a meeting (must join as a host or cohost).
2. Hover over the participant's thumbnail video, and click More options. Then select Make presenter.
3. Or, click the Open participants panel, hover over the participant's name and click More options  > Make presenter.
   

Manage meeting participants 

1. In a meeting, click Participants.
2. Right-click the participant's name or hover over it and click More options.
3. Select from the following options.

You may not see all these options. What you see depends on your role in the meeting and the meeting type.

• Webex scheduled meeting, Personal Room meeting, or enhanced meeting associated with a space:
  
  • Make presenter
  • Make host
  • Make cohost
  • Edit display name
  • Move to lobby
  • Move to stage
  • Expel
  • Create space

• Classic meeting associated with a space:
  
  • Stop video
  • Assign moderator
  • Remove from meeting
  • Create space