How to Make Someone a Co-Host on Zoom: Step-by-Step Guide with Photos

There are many features on Zoom that allow you to talk to and collaborate with family, friends, and co-workers. If you are hosting a video and need to add a co-host on Zoom to help you with presenting, this quick guide will show you how to do it.

Before You Get Started

Before we talk about how to add a co-host on Zoom, it’s important to remember that in order to do so, you’ll need to pay for a pro or enterprise plan. These plans start at $14.99 USD a month, but you can also pay yearly and receive a small discount.

Once you’ve upgraded to a paid plan, you’ll then have the option to choose a co-host while in a Zoom meeting.

Steps to Add a Zoom Co-Host

Step 1: Add the Co-Host Option in Your Settings

Before you start a new meeting and have the option to choose a co-host, you’ll first need to make sure that you’ve added this option to your settings.

To do this, you’ll want to log in to Zoom and navigate to your dashboard. From there, you’ll click the Settings button on the left-hand side.

Once in Settings, you’ll scroll down until you see the In Meeting (Basic) section. If you scroll just a bit further, you’ll then see the Co-host option. This option may be disabled, and if it is, you’ll see that it’s greyed out. You can enable it by clicking it until you see the switch turn blue.

Zoom will automatically save your setting changes, but you can ensure it worked by refreshing the page and checking the co-host setting again.

Step 2: Start Your Meeting

Now that you’ve enabled the option to add a co-host, you can start your meeting. You can do this by logging into Zoom and starting a new meeting, or starting a scheduled meeting in your dashboard.

Step 3: Allow All Participants to Join

Next, the rest of your participants should join the video. At the very least, you’ll want your fellow host in the meeting so you can switch on the co-host option before you start your conference or assembly.

In order to ensure that each participant is joining the correct meeting, you can copy the link or an invitation to the meeting and email it to your participants or send them the link via text or online chat. You may not need to do this if you’ve already scheduled a meeting, but it’s great to know for impromptu get-togethers.

Step 4: Add Your Co-Host

Once your participants have joined, you can add a person as a co-host. To do this, you’ll need to hover over the participant that you want to make a co-host in the participant’s section. Zoom will show a More button.

You’ll need to click on the More button and choose the Make Co-host option in the drop-down menu. Once you do this, Zoom will try to confirm your choice with a pop-up asking you, “Make {name} the meeting co-host?”

To confirm, just click the blue button that states Make Co-host. Once you’ve clicked that button, you’ve officially added a co-host on Zoom!

Step 5: Confirm the Co-Host

While this step isn’t completely necessary, you can confirm that you’ve followed these steps correctly by glancing at the participant’s section after following steps one through four.

If you finished the steps, you’ll see that the person you chose as a co-host now has a “(Co-host)” title next to their name. If they don’t, follow steps one through 4 again!

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Wrapping Up

Zoom is a fairly user-friendly app. But because of its many features, it can be difficult to navigate if you aren’t used to all that it offers. If you were looking for how to add a co-host on Zoom, we hope this guide made it easy for you to do!

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