Only meeting organizers on the desktop versions of Teams (WIndows and Mac) can create and manage breakout rooms.

Notes: These features are not currently available in breakout rooms:

  • Call me
  • Adding people to the meeting from the participants panel
  • Adding additional people to the meeting chat
  • Copying the Join meeting info


  • Start the meeting.
  • In the meeting controls, select Breakout rooms Breakout rooms icon Breakout rooms icon . 

Select Breakout rooms Select Breakout rooms


  • Select the number of rooms you want (50 max), and whether you want Teams to assign people to rooms (Automatically) or you want to choose the people for each room yourself (Manually).


Select number of rooms 


  • Select Create Rooms.