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Role Management#

Participants in a meeting are assigned a role that determines their default set of permissions. The role is determined by the room access link used to join.

Predefined roles#

Moderator#

Grants full meeting permissions by default:

  • Meeting management: end the meeting for all participants
  • Recording control (canRecord): start/stop recordings, retrieve and delete recordings
  • Participant management (canMakeModerator): promote other participants to moderator; (canShareAccessLinks): share room access links; kick participants
  • Media publishing: publish video, audio, and share screen
  • Communication: send chat messages, change virtual background

Speaker#

Grants basic participation permissions by default:

  • Media publishing: publish video, audio, and share screen
  • Communication: send chat messages, change virtual background

Info

The default permissions for Moderator and Speaker roles can be customized per room when creating or editing it. For the complete list of available permissions, see the REST API .

Promoting participants to moderator#

During an active meeting, participants with the canMakeModerator permission can promote or demote other participants from the "Participants" side panel:

When a participant is promoted to moderator:

  • They receive all permissions associated with the Moderator role.
  • The promotion applies only to the current session and does not modify their configured permissions.
  • The promotion can be undone by demoting the participant back to their original role.