1 | Sign in to your Webex site and go to Preferences > My Personal Room.![]() |
2 | To edit your Personal Room name, enter the new name.Your Personal Room name can be 1–128 characters in length. |
3 | To edit your Personal Room link, enter a new ID.Your Personal Room link has these requirements:Can be 1–64 characters in length.Must contain at least one alphabetic character.Must not contain any symbols or special characters except hyphens (-), periods (.), or underscores (_).Must not already be in use by someone else on the site. If you change your Personal Room ID, update your previously scheduled Personal Room meetings to use your new Personal Room URL. The previous URL no longer works. |
4 | For Host PIN enter a number that’s easy for you to remember.Your Host PIN must be exactly four digits, and can’t repeat or be sequential, for example, 1111 or 1234. You can change your Host PIN later, by entering a new four digit number. |
5 | To lock your Personal Room automatically after the meeting starts, check Automatic lock, and specify the number of minutes.You can choose 0, 5, 10, 15, or 20 minutes. After a meeting locks, attendees wait to join the meeting until you admit them. |
6 | For Notification, check Notify me by email when someone enters my Personal Room lobby while I am away receive an email notification when someone enters your Personal Room. |
7 | For Cohost, check Allow cohosts for my Personal Room meetings.If you allow another person or video device to cohost your Personal Room meetings, select one of the options:Automatically make the first person with a host account on this site or the first person joining from an authenticated Cisco video device in this organization the cohost of my Personal Room meetingsLet me choose cohosts for my Personal Room meetingsTo specify cohosts, enter their email addresses separated by commas or semicolons. |
8 | Select Save. |
Do not post the link to your meeting anywhere public or on social media. Only share links to your meetings or personal room on email, Google Classroom or PowerSchool.
Lock the meeting once all attendees have joined the meeting. This practice prevents more attendees from joining. Hosts can lock or unlock the meeting at any time while the session is in progress. To lock a meeting that you’re currently hosting, go to Meeting > Lock Meeting.
This option prevents anyone from joining the meeting, including participants who have been invited to the meeting but have not yet joined it. To unlock a meeting that you’re currently hosting, go to Meeting > Unlock Meeting. |
Accounting for every attendee by using a roll call is a secure practice. Ask users to turn on their video or state their name to confirm their identity.
To attend a meeting using a phone, a caller only needs a valid Webex dial-in number and the nine-digit meeting ID. If attendees can join meetings on your site by phone without a password, they will not be prevented from joining the audio conference portion of the meeting.If attendees without an account are allowed to join the meeting, then unauthorized users can identify themselves with any name in your meeting. |
Participants can be expelled at any time during a meeting. Select the name of the participant whom you want to remove, go to Participant > Expel.
Go to Share > Application > instead of Share > My Screen to share specific applications and prevent accidental exposure of sensitive information on your screen.
If allowed at the site level, Webex meeting hosts can choose whether to allow all participants to share. If you don’t enable the option, you can assign the Presenter role to select participants or attendees.
Only designated Presenters can share content from video devices and the Webex Teams app.
For more information, see Webex Sharing and the Presenter Role.
When the meeting is over, be sure to end the meeting for all participants. You may be presented with an option to leave the meeting running without ending it. If you need to leave early, make someone else the host, who will responsible for ending the meeting.
Lock your Personal Room to keep uninvited people from joining meetings. If you don’t lock your Personal Room, anyone can enter it with your Personal Room URL.
Locking meetings in your Personal Room helps keep them secure by making sure no one joins who isn’t supposed to. When you lock your Personal Room, it prevents more attendees from joining until you admit them. You can lock or unlock the room at any time while the session is in progress. If you have back-to-back meetings or need privacy in your Personal Room, lock the room.
When the room is locked:
For users on Cisco Webex video platform version 1.0: If you set your meeting to automatically lock 0 minutes after the meeting starts, we recommend that you start your meeting from the Cisco Webex Meetings app so that you can admit participants. You won’t be able to admit participants by using the video device. To find out which versions you’re using, see Find Your Cisco Webex Meetings Version Number. |
During a meeting in your Personal Room, go to More options ![]() |
You can set an option in your Personal Room preferences to automatically lock your room after it starts. You can choose from 0, 5, 10, 15, or 20 minutes. By default, your Personal Room locks after 10 minutes.
1 | On your Webex site in Classic View, go to My Webex > Preferences > My Personal Room, or from Modern View, go to Preferences > My Personal Room. |
2 | Check the box next to Automatic lock, and then choose how many minutes you want before your Personal Room locks.![]() |