Role Management

Every participant joins a meeting with a different set of permissions:

• Users and identified guests have by default the permissions of their base role (Moderator or Speaker), which can be fine-tuned independently for each member with custom permissions.
• Anonymous guests can only join through the shared Moderator or Speaker link, so they always have the predefined permissions of that role and cannot be customized.

During a meeting, these permissions are not fixed. Participants with the canMakeModerator permission can promote other participants to moderator or demote them back to their original permissions.

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canMakeModerator is one of the permissions the Moderator predefined role grants by default. For the complete list of permissions, see the MeetPermissions schema.

Promoting participants to moderator

A participant with the canMakeModerator permission can promote to moderator any other participant whose permissions are lower than the full set of Moderator predefined role permissions. The promotion grants that participant all the moderator permissions they were missing.

The promotion is temporary and scoped to the ongoing meeting:

• It does not modify the member's configured base role or custom permissions.
• As soon as the promoted participant leaves the meeting — including refreshing the browser — the extra permissions are dropped and they return to their original permissions.

Demoting participants

A participant with the canMakeModerator permission can also demote a promoted participant at any time, reverting them to the original permissions they joined the meeting with.

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A promoted moderator cannot demote an original moderator — a participant who already had moderator permissions when they joined, rather than being promoted during the meeting. This prevents temporarily-promoted moderators from stripping permissions from the participants who were moderators from the start.