More Tips to Prevent Zoom Bombing

Enable Waiting Room. Hosts can allow entry into the room as guests arrive. This allows you to remove participants and put them back in the waiting room.
Do not post your Zoom Link publicly (openly on the web). Only share in email, Sage, eLC, etc... where your students have access through their UGA MyId.

Additional Zoom Settings to increase host control:

Please take the time to think about these settings and the implications of each. Using too many safety features may make it more difficult for students to enter and participate. So make sure you understand how each setting works, how you can communicate the necessary information to students, and that the choices made are necessary to protect your meetings. There are many other settings listed other than the ones described here that may or may not be helpful to you.

Upon entering Zoom, you will see Settings listed in the navigation bar on the left side of your screen. This sets some default settings for meetings and other settings that control the permissions of participants.

Disable Join before Host: This keeps participants from entering the room before the host and possibly sharing inappropriate content.

Only authenticated users can join meetings: This only allows participants with UGA IDs to enter.

Require a password: This allows the host OR Zoom to create a password for the meeting that participants must enter.

Private Chat: Allows Participants to chat with each other privately. This is often a helpful feature; however, students could send explicit content to each other directly and privately.

Auto Saving Chats: Allows all in-meeting chats to be saved and downloaded. This may not save Private Chats.

File Transfer: Allows the sending of files through the chat feature. This is helpful in some cases, so weigh the benefits of turning this off or on.

Allow host to put an attendee on hold: This allows hosts to remove an attendee from a meeting. If you allow the waiting room, you can choose to not allow them back in. Keep in mind if you have 50 students coming in the room, the waiting room would make you allow all of them entry individually. Again, weigh the costs and benefits of using all features.

Screen Sharing: Allows permissions related to who can share their screen. Do you want all participants to be able to share (sometimes you may). It may be helpful to allow the host only to share while someone else is sharing. This allows you to take back control.

Annotation: Allows participants to use drawing tools to write on shared screens. This is sometimes a helpful tool, but overall may be more problematic.

Remote Control: A helpful feature that may be problematic. If you allow it, make sure you understand how it works and why you want to use it.

Nonverbal Feedback: A helpful feature that allows students to quickly raise their hand, answer yes or no, or provide select emojis throughout the session. This is helpful when you want to check to see if students can hear you or can see the screen you share.

Allow removed participants to rejoin: A powerful feature than can allow students to reenter after removed. Using this will depend on what you are doing in Zoom. If you are hosting online office hours, you may want to allow people to reenter after you have removed them. However, if you want someone out permanently, this could allow them to rejoin again and again once you remove them. Consider the costs and benefits of each setting.

Virtual Background: This is a fun feature that allows a student to basically allow an image to act as their background of their video. There are a few stock images, but participants can upload their own. This is a fun tool you can use to connect with your participants, but again weigh the costs and benefits.

Waiting Room: Mentioned above, the waiting room allows hosts to admit participants individually. Depending on your usage and how many students you expect, this may or may not be a good option. You can turn this on individually per meeting if you want to use it sometimes, but not for all instances.

UGA Policies that Protect Against Zoom Bombing

FERPA: https://reg.uga.edu/general-information/ferpa/
We are responsible for putting measures in place that protect the identity of our students. Open Zoom meetings may actually be in violation; if anyone can enter the room from a public link, they would see student names as entered. For this reason, we would discourage live streaming your Zoom meeting.

UGA Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy: https://eoo.uga.edu/policies/non-discrimination-anti-harassment-policy
If a student shows explicit, sexual, or racist content to instructors or other students, they would be subject to measures defined by the UGA policy. You may want to add a note in Sage or in eLC that the policy is protective of all UGA faculty, staff, and students and includes all related university activities.