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The simplest way to create breakout rooms is to use the Breakout Rooms tool once a meeting has started.  This has the advantage of creating and assigning breakout rooms based on the people that are actually in attendance, regardless of how they accessed the meeting (i.e. they could have entered with a non-Whitman email address).  Here is how to do it:

1. Click on the 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 the number of rooms to create via the dropdown menu or directly enter how many rooms to createthe number of rooms in the box (up to 50)
4. Choose to assign the rooms either Automatically or Manually, Manually, or Let participants choose which room to enter.  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 participants name and moving them to a different room.
   2. Manually - The number 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.
   3. Let participants choose room -  The attendees can choose which room they will break out to.  When using this option, it may help to rename or title each breakout room with a descriptive name, instead of the the default "Room x". To change the name of a room, hover the mouse/cursor over the room in the list of rooms and click on Rename and tpe in the name of the room. Also note that this method of assigning rooms allows for an uneven distribution of attendees in rooms. - You may end up with everyone in one breakout room!
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. 

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