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Pre-planning breakout rooms can be a time saver, if done properly, - and the pre-assignments can be saved as a CSV file to use in later class sessions. Pre-planning break out rooms is accomplished during the scheduling phase of a meeting via the Zoom scheduling interface, or by uploading a spreadsheet (saved in CSV format only) of your room assignments. Both methods rely on assigning participants by the email address you think they will use when joining a meeting. Since not all participants always join a Zoom meeting by using their Whitman email address, enabaling Only authenticated users can join: Sign in to Zoom can be a way of forcing users to sign in with their Whitman credentials. This has the disadvantage of not allowing preventing any participants that are outside of whitman from joining a class session.
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