How To Use Breakout Rooms With Zoom

If the meeting is being cloud recorded it will only record the main room regardless of what room the meeting host is in.

How to use breakout rooms with zoom. They first have to be enabled in your account settings and then can be managed from the desktop client or joined from various zoom apps. If you don t see it your window is probably too small. The breakout room feature is under the meeting tab and you need to navigate there to confirm it s on. 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. Breakout rooms allow you to split your zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions.

Using the zoom web portal make sure to sign in with administrative privileges. Select the options button to enable your various breakout room settings. When the meeting starts click breakout rooms at the bottom of the screen. Here s how you can navigate the zoom breakout rooms in the host interface. Then navigate to account management and click account settings.

Using the zoom program on your computer create a new meeting. Click on the breakout rooms icon on the zoom host toolbar to see who s in each room or hover over to move rename delete or reassign people from various rooms. You can even pre assign attendees to rooms. You already know the room and participants limits. Zoom will open a pop up window where you can set breakout arbitrary by the number of rooms or drop students in breakout rooms manually then click create breakout rooms.

Make the window bigger or find breakout rooms by clicking the more button. If not click on the switch next to the option to toggle it on. If you chose a manual option you can assign participants to different rooms click on assign link on the right and then select participant s name. Enabling breakout rooms 0 15 st. There are a few points you need to remember or keep in mind while using the breakout room feature in zoom.

Zoom breakout rooms allow meeting participants to work in independent groups while still being managed by the host from a zoom call.