Zoom Breakout Rooms

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.

enable breakout room option in advanced features settings

Getting Started with Breakout Room

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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.

Important!

Host cannot pre-assign breakout room from Canvas while scheduling a meeting in Zoom. But, the option to set-up breakout room is available once the meeting starts.

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Additional Resources

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Zoom Support
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Recording your Zoom Meetings
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Adding Zoom to Canvas
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Zoom System Requirements and Roles
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Signing in on the Zoom Desktop & Mobile App
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Additional Zoom Features

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