Concepts

Users

ACSM (Anti-Cloud Secure Meet) has three types of users:

  1. Administrator: The administrator creates and pays for rooms, and assigns moderators to rooms.
  2. Moderator: A moderator can start a meeting in any room to which the administrator has assigned them, and has special privileges to moderate a meeting once it has started.
  3. Guest: A guest can join a meeting that has been started by a moderator.

Administrators control who has moderator privileges, and what rooms they moderate. There is one administrator per organization.

Moderators control who can join a meeting, and can kick users out of a meeting, mute them, or prevent them from joining in the first place. Administrators can create as many moderators as they like. Once a moderator starts a meeting, they are the sole moderator for the meeting until the meeting ends.

Guests control their own meeting settings (but can be overridden by a moderator). Guests cannot start meetings, or join empty rooms; a moderator must start the meeting first.

Rooms

The administrator for an organization creates the rooms that can be used by the organization, and assigns moderator users to them. Moderators can start meetings only in rooms to which they’ve been assigned.

For example, an administrator might create three moderator users: Alice, Bob, and Cathy; and three rooms: Sales, Support, and Internal. Then the administrator could assign the Sales room to Alice, the Support room to Alice and Bob, and the Internal room to Alice, Bob, and Cathy. Only Alice would be able to start a meeting in the Sales room; but Alice, Bob, and Cathy would all be able to start a meeting in the Internal room.

User Interfaces

Moderators and guests use the regular ACSM meeting UI (User Interface) to participate in meetings. Moderators log into this UI at the root of your private ACSM domain (for example, https://my-company.acsm.myanti.cloud/). Each room has a unique URL for its meeting UI (for example, https://my-company.acsm.myanti.cloud/join/Sales), which guests use to join a meeting.

Administrators have two additional UIs:

  1. The Anti-Cloud customer portal (at https://portal.myanti.cloud/), where they can administer their organization’s Anti-Cloud account.
  2. The ACSM manager app (on your private ACSM domain, for example, https://my-company.acsm.myanti.cloud/manager), where they can administer ACSM rooms and users.

Credentials

When logging into the meeting UI, moderators use the username and password of the moderator user account that the administrator created for them with the ACSM manager app.

When logging into the customer portal or manager app, administrators use the username and password of the user account that they created when signing up for the Anti-Cloud service.

If a moderator sets a room to be password-protected, guests must use the password that the moderator configured in the meeting UI to join the meeting. Otherwise, no password is needed for guests to join a meeting.