Creating breakout rooms for groups within a meeting
Joining a breakout room
Leaving a breakout room and returning to the meeting
Closing the breakout rooms
Creating breakout rooms for groups within a meeting
You can use a breakout room (a separate meeting space) in a Teams Meeting to create a virtual room for groups of students during your meeting. You divide the attendees of your meeting into groups that each get their own meeting where they can discuss with each other. As the lecturer, you decide who is in which group, or you can have Teams randomly distribute the attendees among the groups. You can also predetermine the time during which students can discuss in the breakout rooms.
Creating breakout rooms for groups prior to a meeting
Go to the calendar in Teams and double-click the meeting.
- Click the tab Breakout rooms.
- If this tab is not visible, click +number behind the row of tabs and click Breakout rooms in the menu that appears.
- In the window that appears, click Create rooms.
- Choose the number of breakout rooms you need.
- Click Add rooms.
- Click Assign participants.
- Choose whether you want the participants to be assigned automatically or do it manually.
- Click Next.
Creating breakout rooms during a meeting
- Click Rooms.
- Choose the number of rooms.
- Choose whether you want the participants to be assigned automatically or do it manually.
- Click Create rooms.
More information
- Change breakout room settings before meeting
- Assign people to breakout rooms manually
- Rename breakout rooms
- Set a time limit for the breakout session
- Start using the breakout rooms
- Interact with breakout room participants
- Close breakout rooms
- Room assignments in recurring meetings
- Additional options
Joining a breakout room
- Click Rooms.
- Click the three dots behind the breakout room you wish to join.
- In the menu that appears, click Join room.
Leaving a breakout room and returning to the meeting
- Click Leave in the upper right corner of the screen.
- While in the meeting, click Resume.
Closing the breakout rooms
- Click Rooms.
- Click Close.