In this article

• Your Personal Room
• Setting up a Personal Room pin
• Start a Personal Room meeting
• Join a Personal Room meeting
• Invite people to your Personal Room
• Leave your Personal Room

Your Personal Room

Your Webex Personal Room is a virtual meeting space that functions like your personal office. You can quickly invite colleagues and collaborators to participate in meetings without needing to schedule in advance.

Personal Rooms are ideal for:

• Office hours
• Advising sessions
• Unscheduled meetings between you and a small group of participants
• Much more

Your Personal Room is located at a static URL, and its video address and call-in numbers do not change. If users enter your room early for a meeting or your room is locked, they will be directed to a virtual waiting room. 

Once you enter your Personal Room, you will see a streamlined interface with easy to use controls.

You can view meeting information by clicking the Meeting Information icon in the upper left corner of the room. Other meeting controls are located at the bottom of the room, including:

• Audio Video Connection
• Share Screen
• Recording
• Chat
• More Options (including Lock Meeting and Invite and Remind)
• End Meeting

In the right pane of the room, a list of participants will be displayed.

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Set up a Personal Room pIN

When you start a Webex meeting in your Personal Room you will be identified as the host. To host and manage meetings in your Personal Room, you will need a Personal Identification Number (PIN) .

1. Log into UMD Webex.
2. A host PIN will be assigned to you when you log into Webex. This PIN  
3. You can change this at any time by going to My Webex > Preferences > My Personal Room from the Classic View Dashboard. 

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Start a Personal Room meeting

You can start a Personal Room meeting in several ways once you have logged into Webex:

• Start a Personal Room meeting from My Webex
  
  • From the Classic View Dashboard, go to My Webex > Start Meeting. 
  • Select the audio connection. You can use a computer, call with a phone, or get a call from the meeting.

• Start a Personal Room meeting by phone
  
  • Enter the access code of the meeting.
  • Enter your host PIN or audio PIN and press # to start the meeting. Other only press # to enter.
    NOTE: Alternate hosts are not permitted to start Personal Room meetings by phone. Phones are not able to unlock or lock rooms; meetings set to lock automatically have to begin in the Webex application.

• Start a Personal Room meeting in a web browser
  
  • You can use the Classic or Modern View Dashboard to start a Personal Room meeting in your web browser with the Webex Web App.
  • Classic View: Click the Start by browser link on your Webex homepage. 
  • Modern View; Click the Start Meeting button in the Personal Room tile.

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Join a Personal Room meeting

You can join a Personal Room meeting by

• Clicking the link in an email invitation
• Pasting the meeting URL in the address bar of your browser (press enter)
• Entering the host's ID for the Personal Room from your Webex profile. The host ID is located in the meeting URL.

After accepting the invitation or entering the meeting URL or host ID, click Join. Then, select your audio connection.

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Invite people to your Personal Room

You can invite participants to your Personal Room with the Personal Room URL or the Invite and Remind tool:

Share your URL

To find the URL, Go to My Webex > Preferences > My Personal Room. Share the URL via your preferred communication method.

Invite and Remind

From the Meeting Controls in your Personal Room, click Invite and Remind and follow the prompts. 
NOTE: A CAPTCHA completion is required the first time attendees enter a Personal Room on your site.

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Leave your Personal Room

To leave your Personal Room or end a meeting, click End Meeting. Once the host leaves, the meeting ends. The host can pass the host role to another participant, keeping the meeting from ending.

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