Exchange (participant): Select a participant in another room to swap the selected participant with.Move to (participant): Select a room to move the participant to.Hover over the participant or room for these options: Participants who are not assigned to breakout sessions will remain in the main meeting when the rooms are started. Once a participant has been assigned (manually or automatically), the number of participants will show in place of the Assign button.Īfter manually or automatically assigning participants to rooms, you can rearrange the participants. To assign participants to your rooms, select Assign next to the room you wish to assign participants to and select the participants you want to assign to that room. Follow the steps below to assign participants to rooms or click Open All Rooms to start the breakout rooms.Set Countdown timer: If this option is checked, the participants will be given a countdown of how much time they have left before being returned to the main room.

Notify me when the time is up: If this option is checked, the host and co-hosts will be notified when the breakout room time is up.Auto close breakout rooms after () minutes: If this option is checked, the breakout rooms will automatically end after the configured time.If this option is unchecked, the participants will need to click Join to be added to the breakout room. Automatically move all assigned participants into breakout rooms: Checking this option will move all participants into the breakout rooms automatically.If this is disabled, they need to wait for the host or co-host to end the breakout rooms. Allow participants to return to the main session at any time: If this option is checked, the participants can move back to the main session from their meeting controls.Allow participants to choose room: Participants can select and enter rooms on their own once rooms are launched.Check any options that you would like to use for your breakout rooms.After creating the breakout rooms, click Options (on Windows) or the gear icon (on macOS) to view additional breakout rooms options.You can manage the rooms prior to starting them by following the instructions below. Your rooms will be created, but will not start automatically.Let participants choose room: Participants can select and enter rooms on their own.Manually: Choose which participants you would like in each room.Automatically: Let Zoom split your participants up evenly into each of the rooms.

Select the number of rooms you would like to create, and how you would like to assign your participants to those rooms:.

Note: You can pre-assign participants to breakout rooms when you schedule the meeting instead of managing them during the meeting. The host or co-host can switch between sessions at any time. 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. Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions.

Managing zoom breakout rooms