Note: You can also pre-assign participants to breakout rooms when you schedule the meeting instead of managing them during the meeting.

• Start an instant or scheduled meeting.
• Click breakout rooms.

• Select the number of rooms you would like to create, and how you would like to assign your participants to those rooms:

Automatically: Let Zoom split your participants up evenly into each of the rooms.

Manually: Choose which participants you would like in each room.

• Click Create breakout rooms.

• Your rooms will be created, but will not start automatically. You can manage the rooms prior to starting them by following the instructions below.

Options for breakout rooms

• After creating the breakout rooms, click Options to view additional breakout rooms options.

• Move all participants into breakout rooms automatically: Checking this option will move all participants into the breakout rooms automatically. If this option is unchecked, the participants will need to click Join to be added to the breakout room.
• Allow participants to return to the main session at any time: If this option is checked, the participants can move back to the main session from their meeting controls. If this is disabled, they need to wait for the host to end the breakout rooms.
• Breakout rooms close automatically after x minutes: If this option is checked, the breakout rooms will automatically end after the configured time.
• Notify me when the time is up: If this option is checked, the host will be notified when the breakout room time is up.
• Countdown after closing breakout rooms: If this option is checked, the participants will be given a countdown of how much time they have left before being returned to the main room.