The host key is useful if you set up a meeting and want someone else to be able to join your meeting and become the host while you're not present. A Zoom meeting can only have one host, so you cannot use the host key if someone else in the meeting is already a host but can ask them to make you a co-host.

Note that your host key can be used to become host in any of your Zoom meetings, so be careful who you share your host key with.

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If you've created a Zoom meeting with the Moodle Zoom activity you will automatically become the host if you connect to your meeting using the 'Start meeting' button in the activity.

Steps to using the host key after joining a meeting

Step 1: If the Participants pane isn't already open on the right, select the Participants button at the bottom to open the Participants pane.

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Step 2: At the bottom of the Participants pane, select the Claim Host button. Enter in the host key and select the Claim Host button.

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