Clarification on Zoom permissions

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In a discussion titled “Clarification on Zoom permissions,” Samantha_O asks for clarification on who qualifies as a “site owner” and whether only Discourse administrators can create Zoom webinars or add panelists. maiki clarifies that both admins and regular users can create webinars in Discourse, but only those with a paid Zoom subscription can actually host them in Zoom. Currently, there’s no option to restrict webinar creation by trust levels or user groups. However, administrators retain the ability to edit, add panelists to, or post recordings for any webinar — even those created by other users — while regular users cannot do so for others’ events. pmusaraj approves of the suggested plugin description update, which better reflects these permissions. The team plans to update the topic to include this information for clarity.

Can you define who a site owner would be here? Is this a Discourse admin, the Zoom account owner?

When you say Administrators, is this Discourse Admins only? So only admins could create an event and/or add panelists? Are there any settings in the plugin to allow certain trust levels, or groups to create events, add panelists, etc?

Good question! A better plugin description might be:

Discourse Zoom empowers Discourse administrators and users with a paid Zoom subscription to schedule, manage, and participate in Zoom webinars directly from their Discourse platform.

(What do you think @Juan_David_MartĂ­nez and @pmusaraj? :point_up::smiley:)

Both users and administrators can create webinars in Discourse. However, only those with a paid Zoom subscription for webinars can create them in Zoom. In essence, regardless of whether they are an admin or a regular user, anyone wishing to create a webinar must have a paid Zoom subscription. Currently, we don’t have the ability to restrict webinar creation by trust levels or groups.

One thing worth noting is that when a user creates a webinar, any administrator can edit, add panelists, or include the URL for the webinar recording. This is a privilege that a regular user cannot exercise for another user’s or an admin’s webinar.

We’re working to include this information in the topic itself. :slight_smile:

Sure, the updated description sounds good to me!