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Creating breakout rooms allows the instructor to distribute the class into smaller groups for collaboration and group-based learning activities. Breakout rooms will allow students to share video, audio, whiteboards, desktops, and can easily integrate with third-party cloud storage and collaboration services.

Creating Breakout Rooms

Zoom Video Breakout Rooms Links to an external site.

Creating Breakout Rooms is as easy as clicking the Breakout Rooms icon at the bottom of your meeting and inputting the number of rooms you would like to create.

1. Start Meeting
2. Click Breakout Rooms icon on the bottom left of your meeting room bar
3. Select the number of breakout rooms you would like to create
4. Choose how you would like to assign your participants
   1. Automatically: Let Zoom split your participants up evenly into each of the rooms
   2. Manually: Choose which participants you would like in each room
5. Click Create Breakout Rooms. Your rooms will be created but will not start automatically.

More information can be found in the Zoom Help Article 'Managing Video Breakout Rooms Links to an external site..'

Managing Breakout Sessions

Once you have your breakout groups created and students assigned, you'll be able to manage Breakout Room by using the options.

1. After creating the breakout rooms, click Options to view additional Breakout Rooms options.
2. Check any options that you would like to use for your breakout rooms (optional).
   1. Move all participants into breakout rooms automatically (otherwise, students will need to click Join to be added to the breakout room).
   2. Allow participants to return to the main session at any time (otherwise, they'll need to wait for you to end the breakout rooms).
   3. Breakout rooms close automatically after X minutes (if you'd like the breakout rooms to automatically end after the configured time).
   4. Notify me with the time is up (this will let you know when the breakout room time is up).
   5. Countdown after closing breakout rooms (this will give the students a countdown timer before their breakout room is closed and they are returned to the main room).
3. Next, you'll be able to click on the 'Open All Sessions' button.

Breakout Sessions 'In Progress'

Once the breakout rooms have been started, you will be able to

• move from session to session to observe and participate in the breakout groups
• leave a breakout session to return to the main meeting (the Leave option only shows when you're in a breakout room)
• broadcasting a message to all breakout groups to share information with all students.
• select 'Close All Rooms' button to stop all rooms after a 60 second countdown. This will be shown to both you and your students. After the 60 seconds are over, the students will be returned to the main meeting.

Ask For Help

While in breakout rooms, your students can click on the 'Ask for Help' button, which will notify you that they need assistance and ask you to join their meeting room.

More information can be found in the following Zoom knowledge base articles:

• Getting Started with Breakout Rooms Links to an external site.
• Participating in Breakout Rooms Links to an external site.
• Managing Video Breakout Rooms Links to an external site.