Breakout Rooms in Zoom
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Zoom is an easy-to-use video conferencing platform that provides high definition, interactive collaboration tools, and telephone conferencing to use for communication and collaboration. This resource explains how to set up breakout rooms in Zoom.
Breakout Rooms
Meeting breakout rooms allow you to split a Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. The participants can be split into these separate sessions automatically or manually, or they can allow participants to select and enter breakout sessions as they please.
Creating Breakout Rooms
Before beginning, make sure meeting breakout rooms are enabled.
- Start an instant or scheduled Zoom meeting and select “Breakout Rooms.”
- Select the number of rooms you would like to create and how you would like to assign your participants to those rooms:
- Assign automatically
- Assign manually
- Let participants choose room
- Load pre-assigned rooms
- Click “Create.”
- Your rooms will be created, but will not start automatically. You can manage the rooms prior to starting them by following the section below.
- After creating the breakout rooms, click Options (on Windows) or the gear icon (on macOS) to view additional breakout rooms options.
Managing Breakout Rooms
After manually or automatically assigning participants to rooms, you can rearrange the participants. Participants who are not assigned to breakout sessions will remain in the main meeting.
Hover over the participant or room for the following options:
- Move to (participant): Select a room to move the participant to.
- Exchange (participant): Select a participant in another room to swap the selected participant with.
- Delete Room: Close the breakout room.
- Recreate:
- Recreate all Rooms: Deletes existing breakout rooms and allows the host/co-host to create new ones.
- Recover to pre-assigned rooms: Recreate the breakout rooms with the pre-assigned arrangement. This is only available if using the pre-assign breakout rooms feature.
- Add a Room: Open a new breakout room.
- Open All Rooms: All assigned participants will be moved to their respective rooms after confirming the prompt to join the breakout room. If allowing participants to choose their own room, they can open the list of rooms and choose which to join.