All You Need to Know About Using Zoom Breakout Rooms By John Montgomery, Zoom Marketing Content Writer
The ability to self-select a Breakout Room is now available, allowing participants to move freely among rooms
Room feature. Once enabled, you can create breakouts during your meetings by clicking on the “Breakout Rooms” icon in the lower rightBreaking into groups hand side of your for smaller, focused That’s just one of the latest toolbar. If you cannot discussions is a hallmark and greatest updates to access the option to of the in-person meeting Zoom’s Breakout Rooms. enable Breakout Rooms, experience, and with There’s a ton of other contact your system Zoom’s Breakout Rooms really cool capabilities admin and request that feature, you can bring built into this powerful they enable it. that same dynamic collaboration feature. To meeting structure to the get better acquainted Pre-assigning Breakout digital space. with Breakout Rooms, Rooms during scheduling here’s all you need to The meeting host can Breakout Rooms is one of know to successfully use be allowed to pre-assign the most popular features them in your next Zoom Breakout Rooms when in Zoom Meetings, and class or meeting. scheduling a meeting. we’re constantly adding This option is great for functionality to provide Enabling Breakout hosts who already know the best experience for Rooms in your account how they want to group our users. Recently, Zoom Zoom natively allows their participants. added the option for you to create as many meeting participants to as 50 separate breakout To schedule a meeting self-select which video sessions for close with pre-assigned Breakout Room they collaboration and smallBreakout Rooms: would like to join. group discussion. Ensure that the “Allow Previously, the meeting Go to zoom.us, sign into host to assign participants host had to assign a your account using your to Breakout Rooms when participant to a Breakout Zoom credentials, and scheduling” option is Room. Now, when the navigate to your Account enabled. Self-Select Breakout Settings. Under In When scheduling a new Rooms option is enabled Meeting (Advanced), you meeting, navigate to by the host (and when the can enable the Breakout Meeting Options and | 42
host and participants are on Zoom 5.3.0 or later), participants can move freely between Breakout Rooms without needing the host’s help.
