How To Use Breakout Rooms With Zoom

Using the zoom web portal make sure to sign in with administrative privileges.

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. You already know the room and participants limits. Then navigate to account management and click account settings. If not click on the switch next to the option to toggle it on. There are a few points you need to remember or keep in mind while using the breakout room feature in zoom.

If you don t see it your window is probably too small. Breakout rooms allow you to split your zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. 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. Enabling breakout rooms 0 15 st. Select the options button to enable your various breakout room settings.

Here s how you can navigate the zoom breakout rooms in the host interface. Using the zoom program on your computer create a new meeting. 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. You can even pre assign attendees to rooms. 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.

Make the window bigger or find breakout rooms by clicking the more button. The breakout room feature is under the meeting tab and you need to navigate there to confirm it s on. Users joined using zoom rooms are unable to join breakout rooms but the main room can be used as an alternative session for these users. Breakout rooms allow you to split your participants into separate sessions. 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.

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