Disable meeting reactions for one recurring scheduled meeting, not all meetings

[ukmeetings]

Hello,

I am the newly appointed admin for our Pro Plan. We have approximately 10 scheduled recurring meetings each week. One meeting has decided they want all meeting reactions disabled for that meeting. The remaining meetings decided they want to have meeting reactions. I have searched Zoom help articles, elsewhere on the net and cannot find an answer or solution on how to do this for only one meeting. As admin I can only disable reactions for all meetings which we do not want to do. There is no control when signing in as host to disable them.

I am aware that meeting participants can disable them only for themselves. This is not what we want.

FYI The person who set up the admin for all meetings did not assign anyone to groups, just scheduled the recurring meetings with IDs and passcodes. I don't know if this makes a difference and can find no help in getting an answer about this.

Detailed help would be most appreciated. Thanks. 

[Ray_Harwood]

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @ukmeetings.

It sounds to me like you do not have multiple Pro accounts, one per person who holds meetings.  The ideal scenario would be to instruct the one person to enable/disable reactions in their own login as required, but if you are sharing meeting credentials somehow, this won't work for you.

I did cheat a little and ask Zoom's Virtual Assistant ZVA for some information.  Here's what I got:

Currently, Zoom’s meeting reactions setting is controlled at the account or group level by admins, or at the user level by individual users for their own experience. There is no built-in option to disable reactions for only a specific meeting while leaving them enabled for others. The reactions setting applies globally to all meetings scheduled by a user or managed by an admin at the account/group level.

Key points for your scenario:

• As an admin, disabling reactions in the Zoom web portal will turn them off for all meetings under your control, not just one.
• There is no per-meeting toggle for reactions in the meeting settings or during a live meeting.
• Participants can only disable reactions for themselves, not for the entire meeting.
• Group management does not provide a per-meeting reactions setting; it only allows you to apply settings to groups of users, not individual meetings.

Workarounds:

• If the meeting that wants reactions disabled is hosted by a different user, you could create a separate group for that user and disable reactions for that group only. However, this will affect all meetings scheduled by that user, not just the one meeting.
• There is no way to disable reactions for a single occurrence or a specific recurring meeting instance.

Summary: At this time, Zoom does not support disabling reactions for only one meeting while keeping them enabled for others. The setting is global at the user, group, or account level, not per meeting.

It's sad that reactions on screen are apparently seen as "too distracting" by some, rather than a way to engage with the audience, and that a stern admonishment from the meeting host to "refrain from using the reactions" would then be ignored by a mature and respectful audience.

You could submit a feature request to put yet another control menu item directly at everyone's fingertips and hope it makes it to the developers.