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When using breakout rooms, meeting rooms are limited to 50 Attendees. You can have up to 5 breakout rooms for any single meeting.

Create Breakout Rooms

Use the “Add Breakout” button to create a new breakout room, and use the “Remove Breakout x” to delete unwanted breakout room(s).

Delete Breakout Rooms

All participants are automatically promoted to the role of Presenter when placed in breakout rooms. The Presenter role gives participants the right to broadcast their video and voice in the Camera and Voice pod, to share their files, computer screens or whiteboard in the Share pod, to chat in the Chat Pod, to add content to the Note Pod, to cast a poll in the Poll Pod, and so forth. When participants are returned to the main meeting room, they will be reverted to their prior role.

When using the “Breakouts Active” button to dismiss breakout sessions, the participant assignments to each breakout room will be preserved. The Host can then click the “Begin Breakouts” button to send all participants back to the same breakout rooms.

Breakouts Active

All information about the participant assignments in breakout rooms will be deleted if the Host uses “Return All To Main Meeting” option under the “Breakout Options” menu to end the breakout sessions. (For more information, see the section on Pod Options.)

Return All to Main Meeting

A Host will be able to pull in content from breakout rooms to the main meeting room and share it with the whole group to explain the breakout exercises in the reunited main meeting session. To share content from the breakout rooms, a Host should first select an individual breakout room name from the Breakout Pods under the Pods menu, and then choose the pod(s) to share with all participants. The selected pod(s) will appear in a new view-only floating pod in the main meeting room.

Share Breakout Pods in Main Meeting

You can automatically assign participants to breakout rooms or you can add them to specific breakout rooms manually.

1. After opening Breakout rooms, click on the “Assign” button in the Breakout Rooms pod.
2. Click “Evenly Distribute From Main”

Assign Participants to Breakout Rooms

For effective discussions, divide participants into groups of 5 or less if possible.
As participants are transitioned into their breakout rooms, the microphones and speakers for the main room are automatically muted.
Phone bridges only work in breakout rooms if the phone conferencing system you are using is specifically designed to provide separate channels for breakout rooms. Otherwise everyone still hears everyone else even though they have been sent to separate breakout rooms.

Uses for breakout rooms
Use breakout rooms for:

• brainstorming activities
• tutoring
• small group activities and collaboration
• troubleshooting technical problems so the whole group is not held up. If you have a facilitator or moderator for your meeting or training, have that person move the participant to a breakout room
• Discussing assigned topics from the instructor or host
• Working on a specific group projects or assignments
• Working in a ‘lab environment’