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1. Click on Breakout Rooms tool
2. A pop up window will show how many participants are in attendance and allow for the creation of however many break out rooms are needed (up to 50 breakout rooms).
3. Select or enter how many rooms to create
4. Choose to assign the rooms either Automatically or Mannually.  Then click on the Create Rooms 
   1. Automatically - Zoom assigns attendees to break out rooms. Note - Once the room assignments are created, you can still edit the assignments, before you open up the rooms by clicking on a particpants name and moving them to a different room.
   2. Mannually - The nunmber of rooms you specified will be listed numerically.  Click on the Assign link next to each room, then click on the names of the participants you want to assign to that room.  Repeat for each of the remaining rooms.  If you want to swap a participant with another, simply select their names and move them to the room you want.
5. When ready to open up the breakout rooms, click on the Open All Rooms button.  Participants will leave the main meeting for their breakout rooms, and the host remains in the main meeting room. 

Method 2: Before a meeting, Pre-planned Breakout

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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 preventing any participants that are outside of whitman from joining a class session.

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