Create and Manage Breakout Rooms

Overview:

This guide will teach how to create breakout rooms to Zoom meetings and how to manage them during a meeting. 

  1. Pre-assigning Breakout Rooms
  2. Managing Breakout Rooms during a meeting

Pre-assigning Breakout Rooms

Step 1:

When creating a meeting, one can pre-assign breakout rooms to be ready to be used during a Zoom Meeting. 
Zoom Meeting Options showing. a red arrow points to a blue "Show" button that can be selected.

 

Step 2:

WIth the options revealed, check the box in Breakout Rooms Pre-assign. Afterwards you can "Create Rooms" or "Import from CSV.""

Revealred options. Arrow points to "Breakout Rooms pre-assign" that can be checked marked with options to create rooms or import from a CSV file

 

Step 3:

When Create Rooms is selected a pop-up to create the rooms is shown. Plus the plus sign to create a room. To assign a participant, enter their email and press the enter key. Click "Save" when done. The Breakout Rooms will be available for use in the meeting. 

A pop-up that says "Breakout Room Assignment" with options to add rooms and add participants to the selected room

 

Managing Breakout Rooms during a meeting

Step 1:

When it is time for the meeting to button into breakout rooms, the host or co-host can press the More button on the bottom toolbar to click the breakout rooms session.

Zoom toolbar with the "More option" highlighted

Step 2: 

From here you will see the different rooms and who is assigned to it. Click “Open All Rooms” will automatically put people into their assigned room and begin the breakout rooms. 

Breakout Rooms screen with different rooms and assigned participants

Step 3: 

If someone is unassigned or needs to be moved, Hover over their name for the “Move to” button and move to desired room or to put them back in the main session. 

Breakout Rooms screen with username highlighted and "move to" highlighted

 

 

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