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1. 1. sign into whitman.zoom.us
   2. Click on the Schedule a Meeting button on the far right of the screen.
   3. Fill out and select all the parameters of your meeting, before you save - make sure you do the following:
   4. Under Meeting Options, tick Breakout Rooms pre-assign
   5. Click on Import from CSV
      1. At the top of the "Import Rooms and Participants from CSV file" window click on download and open this file.
         1. Open the downloaded file with Excel or other spreadsheet program
            1. This file will consist of two colums: Pre-assign Room Name and Email Address  - DO NOT REMOVE THE COLUMN NAMES (HEADERS) OF THIS FILE
         2. Fill in out this table with room numbers and email addresses.  The room number column will have several repeated entries, but the email address column should list each email address only once. A sample is below:
            
            

         Pre-assign Room Name	Email Address
         room1	unique_student@whitman.edu
         room1	not_the_same@whitman.edu
         room2	another_student@whitman.edu
         room2	individual_student@whitman.edu
         room3	not_repeated_student@whitman.edu
         room3	particular_student@whitman.edu

         
         

   6. Save this file as a CSV (Comma delimited) file.  Microsoft Excel may warn you about loosing some features of your workbook if you save it as a CSV file, that is ok - continue to save it as a CSV.   Also, note the location where you saved it (you may need to access it during a meeting)

   7. Back in the "Import Rooms and Participants from CSV file" pop up window:  Either "Drag and Drop your CSV file" into the large gray box  (or click on browe, and select the location of the file you just saved, then click open). 
   8. Zoom will save your pre-assignments and break out rooms.  You can verify this by looking under the option for Breakout Room pre-assign  option, the number of rooms created will be listed with the ability to click on Edit to adjust readjust change your pre-assignments
      
      

Once the breakout rooms are in session:

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