---
title: "Moderate a Meeting"
slug: "moderate-a-meeting"
description: "Manage participants, lock entry and enable Ai. Moderated Meetings let you do that and more! "
tags: ["Access organizer controls", "lock meeting", "meeting controls", "mute others"]
updated: 2025-09-22T19:14:15Z
published: 2025-09-22T19:14:15Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.dialpad.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Moderate a Meeting

Meeting Organizers can moderate their meetings to prevent all Participants from muting others or enabling a screen share.

This way, you don't have to worry about click-happy or non-technical Users muting or screen sharing, or keeping their mic on while they are on the subway.

Let's take a look at moderating in Dialpad Meetings.

> [!NOTE]
> **Who can use this**
> 
> Moderating a meeting is available to [Dialpad Meetings Free and Business](https://www.uberconference.com/pricing) customers.

## Host controls

Meeting Organizers can easily access their Host Controls during an active meeting.

Click the **Host Controls icon** (that's the security badge) to:

- Enable Participants to share their screens
- Enable Participants to Mute others
- Mute all Participants
- Lock the Meeting so others cannot join unannounced
- Turn [AI](/v1/docs/dialpad-meetings-dialpad-ai) on or off

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/0f28ad44-2863-4372-a27e-c6728808d742/Images/Documentation/meeting-host-controls.png)

When checked, Participants are unable to mute others, or share their screens.

Organizers can, however, continue muting and screen sharing while moderating is turned on.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> By default, after the 11th participant joins a meeting, all subsequent participants will be muted. This prevents all random background noise and echoes.

## Co-Host controls

By default, only the meeting Organizer can moderate the meeting. However, if you would like your co-host to be able to access organizer controls, this is possible by updating your Dialpad Meetings settings, by toggling on **Allow co-hosts with access to organizer controls.**

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/0f28ad44-2863-4372-a27e-c6728808d742/Images/Documentation/meeting-cohost-controls.png)

Co-host controls are identical to an Organizer's controls during a meeting.

They can control:

- Audio Recording
- Diapad Ai
- Meeting Lock
- Meeting Title
- Mute
- Participant Removal

Co-hosts can also access the transcript after the meeting ends, and they're able to access the audio recording if the Organizer grants access to anyone with a link.

Learn more about Co-Hosting in [this Help Center article.](/v1/docs/add-remove-a-co-host#cohost-controls)