
Countdown after closing breakout room: a grace period to allow wrap up commentary before students automatically return to the main session.Breakout rooms close automatically after X minutes: limits the time the breakout rooms will be open.Allow participants to return to the main session at any time: allows students to leave the breakout room before any time limit is reached.Deselecting this option requires students to click a Join button to join their assigned group. Move all participants into breakout rooms automatically: pushes all students into rooms when Open All Rooms is clicked.Click Options to adjust settings for the rooms:.Use the controls in the next screen to adjust the configuration of the rooms, if desired: e.g., move or exchange (swap) participants between rooms, or add a room.Choose Automatically to randomly assign students to groups or Manually to fine-control the assignments. In the pop-up window, enter the desired number of breakout groups.
#Zoom breakout rooms limit full
If you don’t see the icon and you’re sure you’re Host, look for an ellipsis (…) icon, which appears if your screen is not wide enough to accommodate the full toolbar.


As Host of the meeting, click on the Breakout Rooms icon towards the right end of the Zoom toolbar.Note that only meeting Hosts can implement breakout rooms. You can also pre-configure them ahead of time, either manually or with the use of prepared spreadsheets. You can create breakout rooms dynamically or “on-the-fly” during a Zoom session. Zoom breakout rooms approximate this functionality in synchronous virtual learning contexts by allowing students to interact more intensively with a smaller number of classmates.

In physical classrooms, breakout groups are an active learning technique that helps students more deeply engage their peers and course materials.
