How to Maintain Participant Anonymity in a Zoom Meeting

[jbalesh]

I will be hosting a meeting where the participants' identities need to be kept hidden from others so that they can attend without anyone knows they are doing so.  How can I do this with Zoom? 

Thank you!

[Ray_Harwood · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @jbalesh.

Zoom Meetings are designed for collaboration, and I’m not aware I’d any way to prevent attendees from seeing the names in the Participant window.

Zoom Webinars are designed such that only the Host, Co-Hosts, and Panelists can see the identities of the Attendees. This is the only way I know to maintain anonymity of the Attendees, though the Host, Co-Hosts, and Panelists names will be displayed for all. 

[Ray_Harwood · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @jbalesh.

Zoom Meetings are designed for collaboration, and I’m not aware I’d any way to prevent attendees from seeing the names in the Participant window.

Zoom Webinars are designed such that only the Host, Co-Hosts, and Panelists can see the identities of the Attendees. This is the only way I know to maintain anonymity of the Attendees, though the Host, Co-Hosts, and Panelists names will be displayed for all. 

[jbalesh · Accepted solution]

Thank you, Ray!  I thought this was the case so it is helpful to confirm that it is so. 

[sumtzeching]

Hi Ray,  for Zoom Webinars, can the Host, Co-Hosts, and Panelists be anonymous as well? 

[Ray_Harwood]

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @sumtzeching.

Sorry, not possible. That would be a bit like having a TV show with everyone being anonymous. You could possibly disguise the names in one of several ways, but no way to just be a “no name entity.”