You may want to tell everyone the remaining breakout session time, offer discussion ideas, or just give general updates. Send an announcement to all breakout rooms Interact with breakout room participantsĪs meeting organizer, you can send announcements to all the breakout rooms and contribute to any of the room chats. Hover over the room and select More options then Join room. If you're the meeting organizer or a breakout rooms manager, you can join any of the rooms. You can open and close breakout rooms more than once during a meeting. To open a single room, hover over the room, select More options, and choose Open room. To open all the rooms at the same time, select Open. Select Set a time limit and choose a session length.īy default, meeting participants are moved to their assigned rooms as soon as you open them, but you can turn off this setting (see Turn off automatic entry to breakout rooms). Note: If you turn off the Automatically move people to rooms setting (see Turn off automatic entry to breakout rooms), participants will have the option of returning to the main meeting or leaving the meeting when time is up. Hover over the room and select More options then Rename room.Įnter the new name and select Rename room. If you want, rename each room to reflect its purpose (for example, what the people in that room will be working on). Join open rooms, make an announcement, and more.

You can see who the current manager is (for example, Daniela is in control). You might be one of a few breakout rooms managers in your meeting. Only one of you can control the rooms at a time, though.

Select the back button < to save your changes. If no one in the meeting is designated as a presenter, select Go to Meeting options to add presenters and choose who you want to be a room manager.Ĭhoose presenters from the dropdown menu. Select Search for presenters and choose who you want to be breakout rooms managers. Switch the Assign presenters to manage rooms toggle on. Go to Breakout rooms and select Room settings. Important: Only one person can manage a meeting's breakout rooms at a time. If you're the meeting organizer, you can delegate presenters to manage the meeting's breakout rooms.Īssign and reassign participants to rooms If someone joins the meeting late, select Assign participants again to assign them to a room.

From this window, sort people to see who's been assigned where by selecting the down arrow next to Name or Room. When you're done, select Confirm.Īssign people manually during the meeting Repeat the previous steps until everyone in the meeting is assigned to a room. Select the down arrow next to Assign and choose a room for them.

Go to Breakout rooms and select Assign participants.Ĭhoose the people you want in a room by selecting the checkboxes next to their names. Assign people manually before the meeting Use the main meeting as a breakout room for these people instead. Note: Currently, people who join the meeting using PSTN or Teams devices can't be assigned to rooms. Ĭhoose the number of rooms you want (up to 50). In the meeting controls, select Breakout rooms. In this example, three rooms were created but no one's been assigned to them yet.Ĭhoose whether you want Teams to evenly assign people to rooms ( Automatically) or assign people yourself ( Manually).Īs soon as the meeting starts, you can open the breakout rooms. Go to Breakout rooms and select Create rooms.Ĭhoose the number of rooms you want (up to 50) and select Add rooms. Go to your Teams calendar and open the meeting invite. To create breakout rooms, you must be a meeting organizer or presenter who's been appointed a breakout rooms manager. If you want to move people around later in the meeting, you'll have to do so manually. You can automatically assign people to breakout rooms when you create them. Tip: For additional assistance, see Breakout rooms troubleshooting guide.

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