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Personal Rooms accounts come with a default Home Page room. You can create additional rooms, modify room settings, and configure user behaviour for each room. The Home Page displays each time you log in to your Personal Rooms account. Personal Rooms Home Page after logging in

Create a new room

To create a new room, select the + New Room button. Enter a name for the new room when prompted. Prompt to enter a room name when creating a new room New rooms appear in the Room Manager, ordered by the date they were created.

Modify room settings

To modify a room, select the settings tab. Settings tab on a personal room Room settings panel for changing the room name and generating room and moderator access codes
#Setting
1Change the room name. Select Update to save.
2Generate an optional room access code — select Generate to create an access code that you can copy into an email or message along with the room link. To remove an existing code, select the trash bin icon.
3Generate an optional moderator access code — select Generate to create a code that lets users join as moderators. To remove an existing code, select the trash bin icon.

Configure user settings

User settings panel with toggles for recording, sign-in, moderator approval, mute on join, and delete room You can configure each room with custom settings to match your use case:
  • Allow room to be recorded [1] — by default, rooms are not recordable. Enable this to let the moderator record the meeting.
  • Require users to be signed in before joining [2] — requires users to sign in to Personal Rooms before they can join.
  • Require moderator approval before joining [3] — prompts the moderator to approve each join request.
  • Allow any user to start this meeting [4] — by default, only the room owner can start a room. Enabling this lets any user with the room link start the room.
  • All users join as moderators [5] — by default, only the room owner enters as moderator. Enabling this gives moderator privileges to anyone with the room link.
  • Mute users when they join [6] — automatically mutes users joining with a microphone. Users can unmute themselves once in the meeting.
  • Delete Room [7] — delete the room. A confirmation prompt appears.
Deletion is permanent and cannot be undone. Deleting a room also deletes all recordings associated with it.
Delete room confirmation dialog

Enter or manage an existing room

To enter or manage a room, select it in the Room Manager. Room manager listing existing personal rooms to enter or manage