Zoom - Breakout Room
Zoom: Breakout Room Overview + How to enable / manage settings
For more or specific information about Breakout Rooms and all they can offer please visit Zoom Support Website
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Breakout rooms allow you to split your zoom meeting into up to 50 separate sessions. The meeting host can choose to split the participants of the meeting into these separate sessions automatically or manually, or they can allow participants to select and enter breakout sessions as they please. The host can switch between sessions at any time.
Note: Co-hosts now have the same breakout room controls as the meeting host
Pre-assigning participants to breakout rooms using the web portal
2. Click meetings and schedule a meeting
3. In the meeting options section, select Breakout Room pre-assign and click create room
4. Click the plus icon beside rooms to add breakout rooms
Assign participants to breakout rooms by adding their email. You can create up to 50 breakout rooms and assign up to a total of 200 participants.
5. Hover over the default breakout room name and click the pencil icon to rename it
6. In the add participants text box, search for participants’ names or email address to add them to the breakout room
7. (Optional) Use these options to edit your breakout rooms and participants
Click and drag a participant email address to change the order
Hover over a participant name to see options to move them to another room or remove them from the current room
To delete a breakout room, hover the room name in the left panel and click the trash bin icon
Starting a meeting with pre-assigned breakout rooms
1. Start the meeting with participants pre-assigned to breakout rooms
2. Click Breakout Rooms in the meeting controls to access the breakout rooms you created
3. Click open all rooms to start the breakout rooms
Update to Breakout Rooms 1/29/21
Breakout Rooms - Host can admit participants from Waiting Room within a Breakout Room: A new meeting feature, the Host is notified of participants in the Waiting Room, even while currently in a Breakout Room. The Host can admit these participants either one at a time or all at once. Participants will be asked to join pre-assigned Breakout Rooms if pre-assigned are active; otherwise, the Host can assign participants directly to the Breakout Room of their choosing.