[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-en-\u002Fhow-to-hand-over-a-meeting-or-channel-to-another-host":3},{"page":4,"surround":297},{"id":5,"title":6,"authors":7,"badge":10,"body":11,"date":281,"demo-cta":282,"description":283,"extension":284,"genre":285,"heroOrder":286,"icp":287,"image":290,"meta":291,"navigation":292,"no-translate":282,"path":293,"rank-country":286,"rank-keywords":286,"rank-tag":286,"seo":294,"stem":295,"updated":286,"video":292,"__hash__":296},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-hand-over-a-meeting-or-channel-to-another-host.md","How to hand over a meeting or a channel to another host — mid-call or when someone leaves the company (2026)",[8],{"name":9},"The Mind.com Team","Guide",{"type":12,"value":13,"toc":269},"minimark",[14,18,27,32,47,51,79,87,91,94,98,101,169,176,180,193,197,203,209,215,221,227,231],[15,16,6],"h1",{"id":17},"how-to-hand-over-a-meeting-or-a-channel-to-another-host-mid-call-or-when-someone-leaves-the-company-2026",[19,20,21,22,26],"p",{},"The weekly customer call was created by someone who is on leave; the channel with the partner belongs to an account that is being offboarded. If you searched \"change the meeting host\" or \"transfer a channel to another owner\", the short answer for InterMIND is ",[23,24,25],"strong",{},"Make host"," in the member drawer: the room, its link, its chat and its recaps stay exactly where they are, and a colleague becomes the host — in one click, even in the middle of a call. 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Handing over the room hands over all three.",[28,48,50],{"id":49},"hand-over-a-meeting-or-a-channel","Hand over a meeting or a channel",[52,53,54,65,73],"ol",{},[55,56,57,60,61,64],"li",{},[23,58,59],{},"Open the member drawer."," Click the participant avatars in the chat header, or right-click the channel in the sidebar → ",[23,62,63],{},"Manage group",".",[55,66,67,70,71,64],{},[23,68,69],{},"Pick the colleague"," and choose ",[23,72,25],{},[55,74,75,78],{},[23,76,77],{},"Confirm."," The dialog says what changes: they will manage members and settings from now on; the current host becomes a regular participant; limits and translation minutes stay with your team's plan.",[19,80,81,82,86],{},"Everyone in the room sees \"",[83,84,85],"em",{},"name"," is now the host\". Nothing else moves: the link is the same, the chat and the recaps stay with the room, the participants stay members.",[28,88,90],{"id":89},"mid-call","Mid-call",[19,92,93],{},"A hand-over during a live meeting takes effect on the spot. The new host becomes the meeting's moderator immediately — the host controls flip to them — and the previous host stays in the call as a presenter. Billing and limits already resolve per request from the new host, and because the new host bills to the same account, nothing shifts for the room.",[28,95,97],{"id":96},"the-one-rule-same-team-paid-plan","The one rule: same team, paid plan",[19,99,100],{},"The host is the room's billing sponsor, so the room can only be handed to someone who bills to the same account. The gate, in the order the dialog checks it:",[102,103,104,117],"table",{},[105,106,107],"thead",{},[108,109,110,114],"tr",{},[111,112,113],"th",{},"The hand-over is refused when…",[111,115,116],{},"The message",[118,119,120,129,137,145,153,161],"tbody",{},[108,121,122,126],{},[123,124,125],"td",{},"The chat is the team-wide chat or an Inbox",[123,127,128],{},"\"This chat cannot change its host\"",[108,130,131,134],{},[123,132,133],{},"The person handing over is neither the host nor an admin of the host's team",[123,135,136],{},"\"Only the host or a team admin can change the host\"",[108,138,139,142],{},[123,140,141],{},"The colleague is already the host",[123,143,144],{},"\"They are already the host\"",[108,146,147,150],{},[123,148,149],{},"The colleague is not a member of this meeting",[123,151,152],{},"\"They must be a member of this meeting first\"",[108,154,155,158],{},[123,156,157],{},"The host's plan is Basic",[123,159,160],{},"\"Changing the host is available on paid plans\"",[108,162,163,166],{},[123,164,165],{},"The colleague is not a licensed member of the same team",[123,167,168],{},"\"The new host must be a licensed member of your team\"",[19,170,171,172,175],{},"So the path for offboarding is: the leaver's rooms are handed to a licensed colleague by the leaver, or by a ",[23,173,174],{},"team admin"," on their behalf — the admin does not need to be a participant to do it, only an admin of the host's team.",[28,177,179],{"id":178},"where-it-is-recorded","Where it is recorded",[19,181,182,183,186,187,192],{},"Every hand-over is written to the team's ",[23,184,185],{},"audit log"," as a host transfer — who did it, from whom, to whom, for which room — next to the other membership events. The ",[188,189,191],"a",{"href":190},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fusers\u002Faudit-log","audit log documentation"," describes what the log keeps and who can read it.",[28,194,196],{"id":195},"faq","FAQ",[19,198,199,202],{},[23,200,201],{},"Can I change the host of a meeting during the call?","\nYes. Open the member drawer, pick the colleague and choose Make host. They become the moderator on the spot; the previous host stays in the call as a participant.",[19,204,205,208],{},[23,206,207],{},"Who can hand over a room?","\nThe host, or an admin of the host's team — for example to reassign the rooms of someone who has left the company.",[19,210,211,214],{},[23,212,213],{},"Can I make a guest or an outside participant the host?","\nNo. The new host must be a licensed member of the same team, because the host is the account the room bills to. The current host's plan must be a paid one.",[19,216,217,220],{},[23,218,219],{},"What happens to the recaps and the chat history?","\nNothing. The room keeps its link, its chat and every recap; only the host changes.",[19,222,223,226],{},[23,224,225],{},"Does the previous host lose access?","\nNo. They become a regular participant of the room and keep reading it like any other member.",[28,228,230],{"id":229},"try-it","Try it",[232,233,234,243,252,260],"ul",{},[55,235,236,242],{},[23,237,238],{},[188,239,241],{"href":240},"\u002Fdemo","Try the live demo"," — a real InterMIND meeting in the browser, no signup needed.",[55,244,245,251],{},[23,246,247],{},[188,248,250],{"href":249},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fchat\u002Fchannels","Channels and members"," — the member drawer, invites, archiving.",[55,253,254,259],{},[23,255,256],{},[188,257,258],{"href":190},"Team audit log"," — what the log records.",[55,261,262,268],{},[23,263,264],{},[188,265,267],{"href":266},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-add-an-external-client-to-a-team-chat-channel","How to add an external client to a team chat channel"," — membership from the other side.",{"title":270,"searchDepth":271,"depth":272,"links":273},"",2,3,[274,275,276,277,278,279,280],{"id":30,"depth":271,"text":31},{"id":49,"depth":271,"text":50},{"id":89,"depth":271,"text":90},{"id":96,"depth":271,"text":97},{"id":178,"depth":271,"text":179},{"id":195,"depth":271,"text":196},{"id":229,"depth":271,"text":230},"2026-09-10",false,"The host of an InterMIND meeting or channel is the person the room bills to and the one who admits guests, manages members and ends the call for all. 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A few moments after the file lands, its card offers an AI summary: the key points as short bullets, each ending in a ¶ link that jumps to the exact paragraph it came from, readable by each member in their own language. Which formats are covered, why the extracted text is never translated, what the card says when a summary cannot be produced, where the text is processed and who can read it, and how the summaries feed the meeting recap.",{"title":304,"path":305,"stem":306,"description":307,"children":-1},"How to join a video meeting from your computer: the link, camera and mic, your language — with or without an account (2026)","\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-join-a-video-meeting-from-your-computer","blog\u002Fhow-to-join-a-video-meeting-from-your-computer","Joining an InterMIND meeting takes three steps in the browser — Chrome, Edge or Firefox, nothing to install. Click the link; signed in, you land on the pre-join screen, not signed in, you type your name and join as a guest and the host admits you. Preview the camera, pick the microphone and speakers, then choose your translation language in More: you hear everyone in your language, in their own voice, with subtitles one click away. What a guest gets and what needs an account, the five-minute rule, the troubleshooting table — and, quoted from their documentation, how Google Meet and Microsoft Teams admit a participant without an account."]