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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 sub-sessions. 

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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, and/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 some participants always may join a Zoom meeting by using clicking on a zoom invitation link without ever having signed into their Whitman email address, enabling  Only authenticated users can join: Sign in to Zoom in the meeting options can be a way of forcing users to sign in with their Whitman credentials. This prevents any participants that are outside of whitman from joining a class session.zoom account, selecting Require authentication to join, with the sub-option of Sign in with Whitman SSO (whitman.zoom.us) forces all attendees to sign-in with their Whitman e-mail address before they join.  This then allows Zoom to assign all the participants who join to the breakout room you assigned by using the same Whitman e-mail address you used in planning the breakout rooms.  Note, selecting Sign in with Whitman SSO (whitman.zoom.us) also prevents any participants that do not have a whitman.edu email address from joining a class session.  If you need an outside member to join the class and you are using breakout rooms, then then choose the Sign in with any Zoom account sub-option. 

Using the built-in Zoom interface to Pre-assign breakout rooms:

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. Select Require Authentication to Join
      1. In the dropdown menu, select Sign in with Whitman SSO (whitman.zoom.us)
   5. Under Meeting Options, select Breakout Room pre-assign
   6. Click on  + Create Rooms
   7. 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)
   8. Click 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"
   9. Repeat for every room, until there are no students left to assign
   10. Click on Save

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