You might have experienced not finding this option in your meeting. Well, the most important thing you tend to miss out on is enabling it first from your account settings. So, in this article, we will guide you on how to do breakout rooms in zoom.
How to Do Breakout Rooms in Zoom
You can create a minimum of 20 zoom breakout rooms with 500 participants and a maximum of 50 zoom breakout rooms with 200 participants. However, before creating a breakout room in Zoom, you must allow access to the feature from your account settings. Then, you can create breakout rooms and choose options for each room. Find out the steps below.
Check Zoom Version Requirements
If you are creating a breakout room, you must be either a Host or a Co-Host in the meeting. But, before creating, you can check the requirements to manage zoom breakout rooms from their official page. To check your zoom desktop client version, follow the given steps.
Allow Access to the Breakout Room
You cannot find a breakout room option on your zoom meeting unless you’ve allowed access to the feature. So, to use this feature, you must turn it on from the settings. Find the steps for individual, group, and account users below.
Account
If you are using a zoom account for an organization, follow the steps to turn on the breakout room.
Group
For users with a zoom account in a group, check out the steps to enable a breakout room.
Users
If you want to create a breakout room for yourself, follow the given steps.
Create Breakout Rooms in Meeting
Now, you can create breakout rooms while in a meeting after enabling the feature. The maximum limit of breakout rooms is 50. However, before beginning, please note that this feature is not available on Mobile yet. You can use it from a web or desktop application. Follow the given steps.
Select the Breakout Room Option
The breakout room will not start immediately after creating the breakout room and assigning the participants to each room. You can still set up additional features in the Breakout rooms for participants. Please find out the steps below. Once the breakout room starts, until the host and co-host of the meeting join the rooms, they will be on the main screen. However, both of them can enter and switch between the rooms. They also have an access to send messages to everyone at once, share screens, observe the activity of the participants, and end the rooms.
