How to use Breakout Rooms in Teams

Pre-assign members to Breakout Rooms

For channels with less than 300 members, you can pre-assign channel members to Breakout Rooms of your Channel meetings.

1. In Teams, select Calendar and double-click on the Teams meeting you scheduled to open it

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2. Select the Breakout rooms tab from the top. You may need to click on the drop-down arrow.

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3. Click on Create rooms button

    

4. Select the number of breakout rooms you’d like to create and then click Add rooms

5. After the rooms have been created, click Assign participants

    

6. Select Manually and click Next

    

7. Select the checkbox beside the participant, select Assign, and then select the room to which you want to assign them.

   1. To assign multiple participants to a room, select the checkbox beside each of the participants you wish to assign to a room.

8. Once you have finished assigning rooms, click Assign

9. The participants will now be assigned to breakout rooms

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