The waiting room attendees list has color-coded statuses to let you know what's going on with other users in the session.
- Join the Session. The Attendees list displays in the sidebar.
- Attendee Status is indicated next to the participant name.
Attendee Waiting Room Statuses
There are multiple waiting room statuses for hosts and participants.
NOTE: Hosts can see everyone's status, but participants can only see their own status and the status of the host.
Status | Color | Description |
Invited: Not Connected | Gray | The participant hasn’t opened the session page. |
Invited: Connecting | Orange | The participant has opened the session page but hasn't clicked the I'm Ready! button yet. |
Invited: Device Error | Red | The participant experienced an error trying to load the camera / microphone selection. |
Invited: Connection Error | Red | The participant experienced an error when they clicked the I'm Ready! button on the camera / microphone selection screen. |
Invited: Waiting on Session | Orange | The participant has clicked the I'm Ready! button and is in the waiting room. The host has not joined the waiting room. |
Waiting Room: Click to Join | Orange | The participant has clicked the I'm Ready! button and is in the waiting room. The host is in the waiting room. Visible to Host only |
Waiting Room: Connected | Orange | The participant has clicked the I'm Ready! button and is in the waiting room. The host is in the waiting room. Visible to Participant only |
Waiting Room: Asking to Join | Orange | The host has clicked the Admit button for the participant to let them join the session but the participant’s device hasn’t confirmed it received the request yet. |
Waiting Room: Joining | Orange | The participant’s device has confirmed it received the request to join the session, but it hasn’t finished joining yet. |
Waiting Room: Connected | Green | The host has joined the waiting room but has not yet let anyone into the session. |
Connected | Green | The participant has initiated the process to publish* and subscribe** to the session. As long as one of the following errors don’t occur, they are “in the session”. |
Error Publishing | Red | The participant wasn’t able to publish* to the session. |
Error Subscribing | Red | The participant wasn’t able to subscribe** to the session. |
NOTE: *Publishing refers to your computer sending video and audio to the session.
**Subscribing refers to your computer receiving other attendees' video and audio through the session.