Enabling Q&A for Meetings
Admins can control if their users can schedule a meeting with Q&A as an in-meeting option. Q&A allows participants to ask questions during the meeting, and for the host and co-hosts to answer their questions. Account owners and admins can also apply Chat Etiquette to Q&A to create and manage policies that identify defined keywords, text patterns/regular expressions.
Q&A is also available for use in Webinars.
Learn more about how to use Q&A in a live meeting.
Requirements for enabling Q&A in Meetings
- A Zoom Business, Zoom Workplace Business, Zoom Workplace Business Plus, Zoom Workplace Enterprise, Zoom Workplace Enterprise Plus, or Education account
How to enable Q&A for Meetings
Account
To enable the Q&A feature for all members of your organization:
- Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an owner or admin with the privilege to edit account settings.
- In the navigation menu, click Account Management then Account Settings.
- Click the Meeting tab.
- Under In Meeting (Advanced), click the Q&A in meetings toggle to enable or disable it.
- If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
- (Optional) To prevent all users in your account from changing this setting, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.
- (Optional) Under Q&A in meetings - additional settings, select the following options as needed, then click Save.
- Attendees can submit questions: Allow participants to submit questions.
- Allow anonymous questions: Allow participants to submit anonymous questions.
Note: User information is not tracked.
- Allow attendees to view:
- Answered questions only: Participants can only view answered questions.
- All questions: Participants can view all questions asked in the meeting. Additional options include allowing participants to upvote and comment on questions asked by other participants.
- (Optional) To prevent all users in your account from changing these sub-settings, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.
Group
To enable or disable the Q&A feature for a group of users:
- Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an admin with the privilege to edit groups.
- In the navigation menu, click User Management then Groups.
- Click the applicable group name from the list.
- Click the Meeting tab.
- Under In Meeting (Advanced), click the Q&A in meetings toggle to enable or disable it.
- If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at the account level and needs to be changed at that level. - (Optional) To prevent all users in the group from changing this setting, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.
- (Optional) Under Q&A in meetings - additional settings, select the following options as needed, then click Save.
- Attendees can submit questions: Allow participants to submit questions.
- Allow anonymous questions: Allow participants to submit anonymous questions.
Note: User information is not tracked.
- Allow attendees to view:
- Answered questions only: Participants can only view answered questions.
- All questions: Participants can view all questions asked in the meeting. Additional options include allowing participants to upvote and comment on questions asked by other participants.
- (Optional) To prevent all users in the group from changing these sub-settings, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.
User
To enable or disable the Q&A feature for your own use:
- Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
- In the navigation menu, click Settings.
- Click the Meeting tab.
- Under In Meeting (Advanced), click the Q&A in meetings toggle to enable or disable it.
- If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at either the group or account level. You need to contact your Zoom admin. - (Optional) Under Q&A in meetings - additional settings, select the following options as needed, then click Save.
- Attendees can submit questions: Allow participants to submit questions.
- Allow anonymous questions: Allow participants to submit anonymous questions.
Note: User information is not tracked.
- Allow attendees to view:
- Answered questions only: Participants can only view answered questions.
- All questions: Participants can view all questions asked in the meeting. Additional options include allowing participants to upvote and comment on questions asked by other participants.