In Microsoft Teams, breakout rooms can be created to divide a meeting up into smaller groups. This can be used in the classroom or workplace setting for group conversations of customizable sizes.
Creating Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams
- As the meeting organizer, select the Breakout rooms icon from the top bar. This option is not available to meeting participants.
- To change the number of rooms, click the down arrow next to 1 and select the desired number of rooms
- To randomly assign people to each room evenly, select Automatically
- To specify which person goes to which room, select Manually
- Click Create Rooms
- If you chose to manually assign participants, then click Assign participants in the right sidebar to add people to each room
- Select the desired user and click Assign
- Select the room you would like to assign them to
- To add additional rooms, click Add room
- Once all participants have been assigned, select Start Rooms
- At the end of the session, breakout rooms can be ended by clicking Close rooms. This will bring all meeting participants back to the main room.
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