Breakout Rooms Overview
Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. The meeting host or co-host can choose to split the participants of the meeting into these separate sessions automatically or manually, or they can allow participants to select and enter breakout sessions as they please. The host or co-host can switch between sessions at any time.
Note:
- Make sure to enable breakout rooms before following this article.
- You can also pre-assign participants to breakout rooms when you schedule the meeting instead of managing them during the meeting.
- Breakout room participants will have the same audio, video, and screen share capabilities as allowed in the main session.
- Take note of the limitations of breakout rooms.
Creating breakout rooms
- Start an instant or scheduled meeting.
- Click Breakout Rooms
. - Select the number of rooms you would like to create, and how you would like to assign your participants to those rooms:
- Automatically: Let Zoom split your participants up evenly into each of the rooms.
- Manually: Choose which participants you would like in each room.
- Let participants choose room: Participants can select and enter rooms on their own.
- Automatically: Let Zoom split your participants up evenly into each of the rooms.
- Click Create Breakout Rooms.
- Your rooms will be created, but will not start automatically. You can manage the rooms prior to starting them by following the instructions below.
Check out, how to manage breakout rooms in Zoom for more information.
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