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What are Breakout Rooms in Zoom Meetings? And how to create it?

News | 31.05.2023

How to mention in the article “Compare Zoom Meeting vs Zoom Webinar”, one of the points of difference is Breakout Rooms.

Breakout Rooms — you can create up to 50 separate rooms for one meeting.

This feature is available only in Zoom Meeting for all subscriptions, from free to Enterprise.

When do we recommend using Breakout Rooms in Zoom Meetings?

  1. When you have to separate participants into groups for individual work, recommend using Breakout Rooms.
  2. You want to provide an opportunity for participants to spend some time alone with speakers or organizers during Zoom Meeting, Breakout Rooms makes it easy to go from a main meeting room to Breakout Room and come back.
  3. You have a long meeting and want to have virtual rooms, where participants can go to decide their own tasks and easy to return. This way, other meeting participants will see that this contact is temporarily unavailable.
  4. For virtual competitions, where you have to have an introduction session and split participants into teams, and easy-moderate working time for teams, participants and etc. The Breakout Rooms feature is very suitable.
  5. And so on.

How to create Breakout Rooms Zoom Meetings? Detailed video.

Breakout Rooms Zoom Meetings | How to create

What features are available in Zoom Meeting Breakout Rooms?

  • Create up to 50 separate breakout rooms in one session;
    • Set up variant go to breakout room:
    • Assign automatically
    • Assign manually
  • Let participants choose the room
  • Create an individual name for each Breakout Room in Zoom Meeting;
  • Set the time duration for Breakout Rooms in Zoom Meetings, after which the rooms will automatically close;
  • Allow participants to return to the main room at any time;
  • Automatically move all or selected participants in breakout rooms to the main meeting;
  • Close all Breakout Rooms in Zoom Meetings manually, or automatically after a predetermined time;
  • Recreate Breakout Rooms in Zoom Meetings.

How to set up Breakout Rooms Zoom Meetings? Detailed video.

Breakout Rooms Zoom Meetings | How to set up

Do you want to get a trial version or a project calculation?  Contact us! Softprom is a Zoom-certified partner. For Zoom Meetings and Webinars, we provide non-cash payment in local currency with the provision of a full package of accounting documents in accordance with the country's legislation, and technical and advisory support.