{"id":18929,"date":"2021-05-26T07:51:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T06:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=18929"},"modified":"2023-08-17T12:12:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T11:12:42","slug":"teams-lobby-when-and-how-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/teams-lobby-when-and-how-to-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams lobby: when and how to use it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you set up a meeting you can use a lobby. This puts people in a waiting area. You then allow people to join the meeting when you\u2019re ready.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2021\/05\/meeting-options-detail-teams-screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18931\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2021\/05\/meeting-options-detail-teams-screenshot.png\" alt=\"Lobby options: Who can bypass the lobby? Let callers bypass the lobby; Announce when callers join or leave; Who can present? and more\" width=\"492\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>How to enable the lobby<\/h2>\n<p>Go to your calendar and edit an existing meeting that&#8217;s already in your calendar:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In Teams, open the <strong>Calendar<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Edit an existing meeting by clicking on it to open it<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Meeting options<\/strong> from along the top (it&#8217;s in the second row of links, next to Time zone)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18930\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2021\/05\/meeting-options-screenshot-teams.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"994\" height=\"536\" \/>You&#8217;ll see three options for different ways to use the lobby.<\/p>\n<h3>How to let only presenters bypass the lobby<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In the &#8216;Who can bypass the lobby&#8217; drop-down box, choose <strong>People I invite<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Invite your meeting presenters to the meeting by email<\/li>\n<li>For all other attendees, share the meeting link with them rather than sending them an invitation by email.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More tips on running meetings in Teams<\/h2>\n<p>See our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/guides\/teams-for-staff\/teams-meetings\">guide to Teams meetings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you set up a meeting you can use a lobby. This puts people in a waiting area. You then allow people to join the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/teams-lobby-when-and-how-to-use-it\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":18997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10268,142785,155646],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18929"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18998,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18929\/revisions\/18998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}