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Re: Zoom Breakout Rooms - mixing participants up in different rounds?


 

Hi Nancy

To your question:? "How can we put people back in the same breakouts as before? I keep hoping there's an easy way to do this, without having to go through some of what I described above?"

This is the most simple thing to do. Don't 'create' a new room.?

When the breakout room is over and the participants have come back to the main room, and you need to send them to the same breakout rooms, open the breakout room feature again and? click 'open room' rather than create a new room. Furthermore, you can see the list of participants in each room from the breakout room feature and you'll see that they are all in the same designated rooms as in prior breakout rooms before clicking 'open room'.?

Though you'll need to check if anyone has dropped off and move around manually or add to the breakout room where the participant has left from. For example, if the?breakout room is designed for 2 people in a room and one leaves for whatever reason before sending people to breakout rooms, you'll need to move the 1 person left to another room.

This configuration will not work if you have created a new random breakout room and then go back to the desired breakout room configuration.??

Warmly
Mila



On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 11:50 AM Nancy Settle-Murphy <nancy@...> wrote:
Hi Michael,

I've found that the Zoom breakout feature truly is random each time, so sometimes I have been with one or two of the same people for a few breakouts in a row, and other times, each group is brand new to me.?

If you want an all-new configuration each time, whoever is running the breakouts can see who's in which room before sending?them to their breakouts, and can make some quick switches (especially if someone else is keeping participants occupied for the few seconds this takes). The other, less elegant option is for the breakout room manager to quickly switch people once they're in breakouts (with an advance warning this might happen, so they're not completely startled). This can be pretty disruptive and off-putting, though, especially if time is tight.

A related question I have: How can we put people back in the same breakouts as before? I keep hoping there's an easy way to do this, without having to go through some of what I described above.

Regards,
Nancy

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