Zoom - assign a passcode to your Personal Meeting ID (also called "PMI" or “Zoom room”)

If you let students or others use your Personal Meeting ID number to connect with you repeatedly, it is very important to assign a passcode. Below are instructions for the Zoom app, and for the web version.

Zoom app:

1. Launch the app and choose “Sign in with SSO”.
   
   

2. In the resulting window, make sure it says “uga” and “.zoom.us” and click “Continue” then log in with your MyID credentials.
   
   

3. If prompted to launch Zoom, even though you already did, then do so.
   
   

4. In the app window, at the top menu, click “Meetings”.
   
   

5. At left, click the tab for “Upcoming” to get the option for “My Personal Meeting ID (PMI)” and click there.
   
   

6. At right, click the button for “Edit”.
   
   

7. In the field for “Password”, type the password you want people to use to enter your Personal Meeting ID or “Zoom room”.
   
   

8. Click “Save”.
   
   

9. IMPORTANT:
   When giving people the password, do not include it in the same message with your Meeting ID number. Zoom might lump them together as a long string of characters to form a web link. If Zoom provides a link, examine it. If it includes the characters “pwd=” then the password is the part after that. Remove everything after “pwd=” from the rest of the link and only send the password separately. NEVER post the whole string on a public site.

Web version:

1. Go to this web address. uga.zoom.us
   
   

2. If you’re prompted to launch Zoom, but you prefer to use the web, then click ”Cancel”.
   
   

3. Below that, click the link for “Join from Your Browser”.
   
   

4. If presented with the option to “Sign in” then click there.
   
   

5. At left, click “Settings”.
   
   

6. Scroll down to “Require a passcode for Personal Meeting ID (PMI)”.
   
   

7. To the right of that heading, move the toggle switch to the “on” position.
   
   

8. Choose whether to have it apply to all meetings using your PMI.
   
   

9. Click the pencil icon to set your passcode.
   
   

10. When finished, click “Save”.
    
    

11. You’ll be warned that this will apply to future meetings and will be reminded to notify your participants. When giving them your password, do not include it in the same message with the meeting number (your Personal Meeting ID).
    
    

12. At the top of this same page, you can also set Zoom to use a waiting room from which you’ll allow participants into the meeting.