Breakout Room Basics
To use Zoom breakout rooms, first you’ll create the breakout rooms, then you’ll open the rooms.
Creating the rooms doesn’t move anyone around yet — it’s opening the rooms which is what will actually send your participants into them (“Beam me up, Scotty!”)
Zoom gives you the option of assigning your participants automatically (which means Zoom does the math for you to figure out how many rooms to create and how to divide your participants among them), or manually (which means you have to do the math yourself.
In between, even if you pick the automatic option, before you open the breakout rooms and beam people off, you always have the option of reassigning participants from one room to another, or exchanging two participants.
You can also rename rooms, which comes in handy if you want your participants to be able to move between rooms on their own (an advanced activity I’ll get to later).
Watch the video above for a quick overview. The lessons that follow cover everything in more detail.
