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How Do I Manually Set a Breakout Room?

Maya Lin-Takahashi • • 6 min read
How Do I Manually Set a Breakout Room?
To manually assign participants to breakout rooms, select the Manually radio button and click Create Rooms. The Breakout Rooms dialog box will appear, and we can assign students to a breakout room by clicking Assign to the right of the breakout room's name.

How do you set a breakout room?

How to create Breakout Rooms

  1. Start an instant or scheduled meeting.
  2. Click Breakout Rooms .
  3. Select the number of rooms you would like to create, and how you would like to assign your participants to those rooms: Assign automatically: Let Zoom split your participants up evenly into each of the rooms. ...
  4. Click Create.

Can you assign yourself to a breakout room?

Participants can now self-assign to rooms

Their status will show as "Unassigned". You can manually assign them to a room if you wish.

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Maya is a hardware enthusiast who tests and reviews smart home devices, smartphones, wearables, and audio gear. She focuses on practical consumer value and build quality.