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Published onSeptember 7, 2020
published onSeptember 7, 2020
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Microsoftannounced in July that a new virtual Breakout Rooms featurewould come to Microsoft Teams in the final quarter of 2020. It appears that the meeting hosts will soon have an option to create breakout rooms during Teams meetings. Spotted by Tim Evans, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, the feature has begun rolling out for users running Teams’ preview releases (note: the tweet has since been deleted).
https://twitter.com/edTechEvans/status/1301776724993085440
The Breakout rooms feature is a powerful tool in Microsoft Teams that allows meeting organizers to split a group video or audio call into divergent sessions for smaller group discussions. They can assign users to a room, add/remove/rename the rooms.
Keep in mind that only the organizer of the meeting will see this newBreakout roomsicon, which can be accessed beside the three dots ( . . . ) menu. Clicking on the icon will take users to theCreate Breakout Roomswindow, which provides different options such asRoom settingsandParticipants.
The meeting organizer will be able to choose the number of rooms (1-50) from theRoom settings, and theParticipantssection will allow them to assign users (Automatically or Manually) to a room. Finally, clickCreate Rooms, and the Breakout Rooms window will now appear on the screen.
To assign users to a breakout room, clickAssign Participants(as shown in the featured image) and then use the checkboxes to select all the users’ names. Next, click theAssignbutton, and select the room to assign it to users manually.
At this point, the breakout rooms will be closed for the meeting participants, and the organizer will have to click theStart roomsbutton to open them for discussion. Finally, to bring all participants back to the larger group when the breakout is complete, clickClose rooms. This will notify all the meeting participants that they are being asked to leave the breakout rooms.
The feature is currently listed as under development in theMicrosoft 365 roadmap, which indicates that it will be released in October 2020. Considering that the breakout room functionality is now being rolled out to preview users, it shouldn’t be long before it makes its way to the public in the coming weeks.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.
Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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