Zoom How To Use Breakout Rooms

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

Zoom how to use breakout rooms. The breakout room feature is under the meeting tab and you need to navigate there to confirm it s on. 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 not click on the switch next to the option to toggle it 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. 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.

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. Breakout rooms allow you to split your participants into separate sessions. I am using windows for this guide. Here s how you can navigate the zoom breakout rooms in the host interface. If the meeting is being cloud recorded it will only record the main room regardless of what room the meeting host is in.

Enabling breakout rooms 0 15 st. In this video the following will be covered. The steps for creating and using breakout rooms in zoom remain the same for both windows and macos desktop apps. If local recording is being used it will record the room the participant who is. Select the options button to enable your various breakout room settings.

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. Using the zoom program on your computer create a new meeting. When the meeting starts click breakout rooms at the bottom of the screen. Zoom breakout rooms allow meeting participants to work in independent groups while still being managed by the host from a zoom call. Then navigate to account management and click account settings.

If you don t see it your window is probably too small. You can even pre assign attendees to rooms. Breakout rooms allow you to split your zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions.