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Lock Webex Meetings

The following article explains how to lock your Personal Room in Webex. This ensures that registered users cannot automatically connect to your room and are forced into a lobby, allowing you to control who you allow in.

You can choose to lock your room each time you enter your room, or set it up to lock automatically.

Each Session

To lock your personal room each time you enter your personal room:

1. Open the Webex app, select Meetings and Start a Personal Room meeting.

2. After starting a meeting, select the 3 dots and select Lock meeting.

Automatically lock

To automatically lock your personal room each time you use webex:

1. Navigate to https://eduvic.webex.com/webappng/sites/eduvic/settings/home

2. Enter your Department of Education email. (@education.vic.edu.au for staff, @schools.vic.edu.au for students).

During login, you may be prompted to enter your email several times, please ensure that you have selected or entered your Department of Education email address each time.

3. Select My Personal Room, then turn on Auto Lock and set the time to 0 minutes after the meeting starts.

Updated on March 3, 2025

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