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In Kaltura Rooms, you can assign moderators directly from the media edit page. This lets you define who can manage a room without making them an entry owner or co-editor.
Moderators can:
- Start and end a room session
- Manage room content
- Access the moderator backchannel
- See and use the 'Join now' button at all times (they don’t need to wait for a co-editor or owner to start the room)
Unlike co-editors, moderators can’t access the media’s edit page.
This feature is available only for Kaltura Rooms (rooms created with a template ID).
Add moderators to a room
- Go to the media page for your room.
- Click the three-dot menu below the player and select Edit.
- Open the Room tab (visible only for new Kaltura Rooms).
- In the Room moderators field, start typing the user's name and select the user from the auto-suggest list.
- Click Save.
The edit media page displays.
You can add multiple moderators to the field, one after the other.
- Owners and co-editors are always the main hosts in the room. They have the highest level of control.
- Moderators added from the edit page can do almost everything co-editors do inside the room (open it, start it, manage it), but they can’t edit the media entry itself.
- Moderators are different from collaboration roles (owner, co-editor, co-publisher). Adding someone as a moderator doesn’t automatically give them those roles.
- If you invite someone as a moderator, they won’t become a co-editor, but they’ll still be able to join and run the session like one.
- Room moderators don’t currently have chat moderation rights. If chat moderation is needed, assign the user as both a Room and Chat moderator.
