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Nakatsubo's avatar
Nakatsubo
New Contributor
4 years ago

Mute attendees Permanently

Hi everyone,   In my experience as user, I believe the host should have a button to mute attendees permanently in such way they cannot override and unmute themselves. Let me share why:   a) There...
John Wetmore's avatar
John Wetmore
New Member
So we ran our first meeting today and weird that every single person that joined the meeting, joined unmuted (most joined via pc), and we could hear everything from their end, feed back,, toilet flushing.. it was insane.. i kept having to go in and hit "mute all" every few minutes as people joined. Certainly I'm missing some type of setting to prevent this?
I'd like to set my meetings to make everyone muted unless I specifically unmute someone, possible? Thanks
GlennD's avatar
GlennD
GoTo Manager
9 years ago

Hi, you should look at GoToWebinar for hosting webinars. Attendees are muted by default and cannot unmute themselves. 

 

 

  • mls27275's avatar
    mls27275
    New Member
    5 years ago

    I saw you may have an update that will allow meeting presenters in GoTo Meeting the same muting priveleges in GoToWebinar.  We are using the platform for live multi-person music and dance classes.  GoToWebinar does not allow our presenter to see all the attendees webcams, but go to meeting does not allow the mute/handraise and registration options.  Are there any updates that might either expand GoToWebinar's webcams or conversely have the mute option in GoToMeeting?  I prefer this plat form and LogMeIn's services, but I'm finding this limiting - but the suggestion there might be an update coming gave me hope...

     

    Thanks!

     

  • Mike_G's avatar
    Mike_G
    New Contributor
    5 years ago

    The ability for the Organizer to set 'mute all' ahead of time for every attendee joining is a very important to most GoToMeeting users.  The solution of upgrading to GoToWebinar is not reasonable as it costs about 3x GoToMeeting.  The basic 'mute all before joining'  functionality should be standard as it  is even included with the free version of Zoom.