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Breakout rooms: A tool available to the host of a Zoom meeting that allows for the assignment of students into different groups. The groups can then "breakout" into separate "rooms" and have sessions of their own. The host can join any of the sessions and switch between any of the sessions at any time. The sessions can be vacated, and students can come back to the main meeting. The main meeting is akin to a plenary session and the breakout rooms are the different subsessions.
This tool/feature is turned on and availabe by default on all Whitman Zoom accounts, if you do not see the Breakout Rooms tool in the meeting controls toolbar, nor the option to create pre-assigned breakout rooms when scheduling in the web portal, check your individual account settings.
There are two methods of creating breakout rooms (both are documented in this article):
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- Click on Breakout Rooms tool
- 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).
- Select or enter how many rooms to create
- Choose to assign the rooms either Automatically or Mannually. Then click on the Create Rooms
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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