

But should you have recurring or scheduled meetings taking place after or continuing past June 23, that aren’t protected with a password, you’ll need to create one.

For meetings that have already been created with a password, you don’t need to do anything. Scheduling or hosting meetings: What you need to know In the meantime, webinar organizers should communicate passwords to participants. Zoom expects to resolve this issue and make the password requirement optional for future webinars. Therefore, upcoming webinars will have passwords. However, when the password requirement was deployed at Stanford on June 23, Zoom inadvertently applied it to webinars. Webinars: What You Need to Knowīased on customer feedback, Zoom has decided not to require passwords for future webinars. After this change goes into effect, you’ll no longer be able to schedule meetings without applying a password nor will you be able to disable this in your settings. Zoom is making passwords a required setting to provide an added layer of security. This includes meetings you may have already scheduled and personal meeting rooms. PST, passwords will be required for all meetings that use Stanford Zoom. Webinars may be password protected but passwords are not required for webinars.īeginning June 23 at 7 p.m.

NOTE: This article was updated on July 23, 2020, to reflect that the password requirement no longer applies to webinars hosted in Stanford Zoom.
