How to Create Breakout Rooms

Setting up Breakout groups

  • Start an instant or scheduled meeting

  • Click the Breakout Rooms icon in the Meeting Controls

 

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

 

  • Automatically: Let Zoom split your participants up evenly into each of the rooms

  • Manually: Choose which participants you would like in each room

  • Let participants choose each room: Participants can select and enter rooms on their own.

  • Click Create

  • Your rooms will be created, but not start automatically, click Open all Rooms to start

  • To send a message to all rooms

    • Click Breakout Rooms in the meeting controls

    • Click Broadcast message to all, enter your message, and click Broadcast

    • The message will be now appear for all participants in breakout rooms

  • To end Breakout rooms click Close Room

 

Zoom Help Center article on Breakout Rooms