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    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 Room pre-assign
    5. Click on  + Create Rooms
    6. Click on the (next to Rooms) to create a room, click on again to create another room, and so on and so forth.   Each room will be labeled as Breakout Room"X" (x being the number of the room)
    7. Clilck on the room you want to assign students to (it will be highlighted in blue), and add the student's email address under the Breakout Room"X"
    8. Repeat for every student
    9. Click on Save

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Import from CSV File method of assigning breakout rooms.

    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 NameEmail Address
        room1unique_student@whitman.edu
        room1not_the_same@whitman.edu
        room2another_student@whitman.edu
        room2individual_student@whitman.edu
        room3not_repeated_student@whitman.edu
        room3particular_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 change your pre-assignments

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