{"id":3547,"date":"2020-03-12T21:29:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T21:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/?page_id=3547"},"modified":"2022-06-10T21:56:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:56:56","slug":"use-zoom-breakout-rooms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/zoom-resources-for-faculty\/use-zoom-breakout-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Zoom Breakout Rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoom<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">breakout rooms<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> allow students to work in small groups and then rejoin full-class sessions. <\/span>To host a meeting with breakout rooms, you must start the meeting from the Zoom desktop application, rather than by clicking the meeting link in email or Canvas.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video tutorial below walks through several important things to know about enabling breakout rooms and using breakout rooms during live class sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch video:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uw.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=e5e609d9-f3af-4fe3-a0f9-ab7c011f1a0d\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intro to Zoom Breakout Rooms (05:35)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigate to the Settings area of the Zoom web portal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find the \u201cIn Meeting (Advanced)\u201d settings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the toggle next to \u201cBreakout room.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, breakout rooms are enabled for future meetings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Start the meeting from the Zoom desktop application.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the Breakout Rooms button, part of the host controls, to start the breakout room process while facilitating a live session.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoom breakout rooms allow students to work in small groups and then rejoin full-class sessions. 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