Features in the video meeting room

Once you're inside a video meeting, you have a range of tools available from the meeting controls. Here are the most important ones you'll find.

The usual controls

At the bottom of the video window:

• Microphone on/off — mute and unmute your audio
• Camera on/off — show or hide yourself
• Screen sharing — share what's on your screen with others in the meeting
• Reactions — give quick visual reactions (clapping, smiles, thumbs up) without interrupting
• Chat — text chat for sending links or typing quick notes
• Raise hand — let the host know you want to speak
• Leave meeting — step out

Lobby (waiting room)

For scheduled meetings, you as the host can turn on the lobby — then participants have to be approved before they're let in. Handy when you're expecting specific guests and don't want anyone uninvited getting in.

Turn it on or off from the meeting room's settings.

When the lobby is useful

• Meetings with outside parties where you want to control who comes in
• Confidential conversations
• Larger events where you, as host, welcome guests one at a time

The lobby is NOT available for personal rooms (instant meetings) — there, anyone with the link comes straight in.

Whiteboard

Many meetings need a shared drawing surface. Click Whiteboard in the controls to open a collaborative board where everyone in the meeting can draw, write, paste images, and add arrows.

The whiteboard isn't saved after the meeting ends — take a screenshot if you want to keep the content.

Polls

To gather quick feedback:

1. Click Polls or Vote in the controls
2. Create a question with 2-5 answer options
3. Send it out to the meeting participants
4. Watch the results live as people respond

Use cases: voting on options, gauging the mood in the room, deciding where the next team lunch should be.

Screen sharing with audio

When you share your screen, you can choose to share audio too — useful if you're showing a video or playing music.

Depending on your browser:

• Chrome / Edge: check "Share audio" in the screen-sharing dialog
• Safari: audio sharing isn't always supported — use a phone recording or share it directly instead

Settings for camera, microphone, and speaker

Click Settings (gear icon) to:

• Choose your microphone input (if you have more than one)
• Choose your camera (if you have more than one, e.g. an external webcam)
• Choose your speaker/output
• Turn on noise suppression (when you're somewhere with background noise)
• Turn on a virtual background (hides what's behind you)

View options

• Speaker view — whoever is speaking fills the main area, others appear as small tiles
• Tile view (grid) — all participants are shown at the same size

Switch between them with the view button in the top right.

Co-host in scheduled meetings

As the organizer of a scheduled meeting, you can give another participant co-host status, so they too can let people in from the lobby, mute participants, and run the meeting. See Invitees and RSVP for how to add a co-host.

Mobile version

Meetings work in the mobile browser with most of the same features. Some advanced things (polls, multi-screen sharing) work best on a computer.

Privacy in meetings

• End-to-end encrypted — we can't eavesdrop even if we wanted to
• No recordings are stored by us
• Servers in Norway — all relay and signaling servers sit on Norwegian soil

Meeting content is as fleeting as a phone call. If you need to keep something, take your own notes, or use the screenshot feature for the whiteboard and polls.