Breakout Rooms
Prerequisites
To manage breakout rooms as the host, you will need:
- Zoom Account
- Zoom Desktop Client
Enable Breakout rooms on your account
- Go to the top right-hand corner of your Zoom page, Click on your Account name
- Go to Settings → Advanced Features →View Advanced Features
- Navigate to the Breakout rooms options and verify that the settings is enabled.
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Getting Started with Breakout Room
Watch this video on Getting started with Zoom Breakout Rooms!
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As the host, you can assign your meeting/class participants to breakout rooms when scheduling the meeting/class.Pre-Assigning Breakout Rooms
- Participants must have a Zoom account to be pre-assigned into breakout rooms.
- Students, Faculty and Staff can create a Basic Zoom account by following the steps listed here (under 'Getting Started').
*This option is available when scheduling meetings in the Zoom web portal. Full, step-by-step instructions can be found here.
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