ZOOM Breakout Rooms: Let participants choose room in a Zoom meeting

Overview

Special Notes

  • Host, co-host and participants must upgrade their Zoom desktop or mobile app to support this feature: Zoom Help Center: Upgrade / update to the latest version
  • Co-host does not have privilege to perform the below actions.
  • The below screenshots are referring to the feature in Zoom desktop client.
  • The steps are illustrated two scenarios
    • The breakout rooms are created in the meeting
    • The breakout rooms have been created with participants pre-assigned to the breakout room before the meeting.

Scenario 1: Create rooms and let participants choose room in the meeting

  1. In a meeting, click “Breakout Rooms”.

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  2. Select the number of rooms you would like to create, and “Let participants choose room”. Click “Create”.

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Scenario 2: Pre-assign participants to breakout rooms before the meeting, and allow participants to choose room in the meeting

  1. In a meeting, click “Breakout Rooms”.

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  2. Click “Options”. Select “Allow Participants to choose room”. Then “Open All Rooms”.

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Notes: 

  • “Allow participants to choose room” is turned off in every meeting session by default. 
  • Participants who join the meeting after the rooms are opened can choose to join a room. 
  • Participants can leave their pre-assigned rooms and join other rooms. 

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