Re: Zoom Breakout Rooms - mixing participants up in different rounds?
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I just had a bit of disaster last night with the zoom breakout rooms.? There are 4 models of how to do break out rooms: 1) Assign people by hand 2) Pre-assign people from a list 3) Assign people automatically (notice that this is not random)? 4) let people pick.? I had two issues.? First,(I believe that) on my Linux system that the options to adjust rooms is somewhat reduced compared to the normal MS/Apple versions. IE, there are versionitis issues between different systems.? This made switching from the pre-assigned to something else not work, because of what I believe was a bug.? Secondly, when you pick one, you can't then do another one. IE, I had two groups of people. The first group I wanted to pre-assign, then the second group, I wanted them to go to where they wanted to go.... Nope. Can't do that.? Either pre-assign everyone, or let people go where they want. Once you pre-assign people, you can't change that assignment. IE, they always go to the same place, you can't have like 3 combinations of breakout rooms and switch from one seating arrangement to another.? We have 2 big groups of people (80 in one set, 40 in the other), We want 10 from the first set and 4 from the second set in each room. Sadly, we don't actually know all of the names of everyone coming, so there is some slop with pre-assignment that wont work. Even worse, the email we have and the email that they use for zoom are not necessarily the same... Lots of hand work.? When you have LONG lists of people, it is hard to find people, then map them to the right room in real time.? So 1) assigning by hand it a pain when you starting getting a lot of people 2) Pre-assigning is too rigid and has lots of sharp edges 3) automatic assignment does not know about sets, nor does it do random correctly 4) letting people choose requires everyone be at the latest version.? Sharp edges all around.? On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 3:22 PM Michael Randel <Michael@...> wrote:
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John Sechrest
