Hide participants from seeing each other and total count

[amucci]

How can you hide participants from a meeting? If we are doing a demo or presentation to like 10 people that are not associated with each other, how can we have it so they don't see each other or what the total count of people are in the meeting? 

[Ray_Harwood]

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @amucci.

Zoom Meetings is really designed as a collaboration and engagement tool among people who likely know each other, or are together for a common purpose and looking forward to networking.

The use case you're describing is really best suited to a Webinar, where there are presenters and attendees.  Presenters are essentially "on stage", visible to everyone, and able to share screen and speak.  Attendees are sort of "in the audience with the lights turned down" -- no cameras, no microphones, can't see each other, can't see the attendee roster or how many are there; they just see the presenters and the presentation.

A Zoom Webinar license for up to 500 attendees is $79USD/month (per user who will be Hosting webinars; and up to 100 panelists/presenters per session), and if your needs are short-term, you can get this on a non-recurring basis, or if you do this a lot, you can set it to renew each month. 

[amucci]

Would the Zoom Sessions work? We probably won't ever have more than 10-20 people. 

3 requirements

1.) Hide attendees from each other

2.) Attendees can ask Presenters questions (Will only have 2 people max as presenters)

3.) Prefer to have a web page where they can sign up and it automatically send them the link

[Ray_Harwood]

Hi, @amucci.

Yes, Zoom Sessions will definitely work, and possibly for your needs, even be more cost effective in terms of licensing fee from Zoom.  Just know that with Zoom Sessions it is a little more complex to set up, but if all of your events are the same (or very similar), you can easily '"clone" them to make new future sessions.

I'd be happy to help you get to know more about Zoom Sessions.  Please reach out to me via the Z-SPAN link below; locate the 30-minute free consult session, and we can discuss.