Breakout rooms allow you to split your zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions.
How to create separate chat rooms in zoom.
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You can also pre assign participants to breakout rooms when you schedule the meeting instead of managing them during the meeting.
Sign in to the zoom web portal.
Only the host may create and assign members to breakout rooms and you can create rooms any time you like such as when the meeting first starts or at any time during a meeting.
Breakout rooms in zoom let you split call participants into virtual rooms where they can have separate group discussions and then join back together later.
To configure a set of zoom rooms in your account to use transform all meetings to private or hide host and meeting id from private meetings.
The separate sessions in breakout rooms.
Select the number of rooms you would like to create and how you would like to assign your participants to those.
Start an instant or scheduled meeting.
Click room management zoom rooms.
In options you can choose to move everyone into breakout rooms.
Your rooms will be created but participants won t join them until you are ready.
Follow this section if you re using the zoom web client.
These rooms allow participants to chat in their groups for a set amount of time or whenever the host chooses to call everyone back to the main meeting room.
Then click create breakout rooms.
How to chat in zoom desktop client download the zoom desktop client for mac or windows.
The meeting 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.
Using the zoom program on your computer create a new meeting.
Click the level in the hierarchy that you want to enable for private meetings.