Enable waiting room

Enable the waiting room for Monday’s therapy group at 3:30 PM so participants are admitted one by one. Turn on the waiting room, set the host and co-hosts to manually admit participants, and confirm that the facilitator can see who is waiting with names and join time. Tell me if family members joining by phone will appear in the waiting room properly.

Before I require a waiting room for parent consultations, make it easy for the facilitator to manage admits. Surface where waiting room participants appear for quick triage, flag settings that let known clients bypass it, advise two ways to mark trusted participants, and suggest wording for the session reminder so parents know they may wait briefly before being admitted.

I turned on the waiting room for a supervision session but five participants joined the room directly without appearing in the waiting list. I’m the host and I thought waiting room was enforced. I don’t know whether an account-level bypass is set or someone used the personal meeting ID. What likely caused this, what three checks do I run now, and how do I ensure the waiting room actually holds participants next time?

Over the past term several groups began without a waiting room and the facilitator had to manage interruptions and late arrivals live, which disrupted the session. Where are we losing control — scheduler, host practice, or default settings — and what one habit or change to the meeting template will ensure the waiting room is always used for these sessions?