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Hi everyone,

As some of you, I have clients who say a definitive no to Zoom.

So my question is for MS teams users : did you have meetings with over 50 participants on Teams, working with breakout rooms (possibly 2 different rounds, 1 with 2 or 3 people, one with 4 or 5) . How did it go ?

I know breakout rooms feature is enabled, but as it is quite recent, I wonder if it has the fluidity I need.

I would really appreciate some stories..

Have a good day
Christine?


 

I had pretty bad experiences with breakout in teams.

I purposely run a session on it to test it in a safe space.?

Some people (on os x clients) were not able to join and were bumped out of the meeting when they were assigned to breakouts. I¡¯d suggest to test before hand ;(



On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 11:58 AM christine koehler <chrisihab@...> wrote:
Hi everyone,

As some of you, I have clients who say a definitive no to Zoom.

So my question is for MS teams users : did you have meetings with over 50 participants on Teams, working with breakout rooms (possibly 2 different rounds, 1 with 2 or 3 people, one with 4 or 5) . How did it go ?

I know breakout rooms feature is enabled, but as it is quite recent, I wonder if it has the fluidity I need.

I would really appreciate some stories..

Have a good day
Christine?

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I recently hosted a breakout session with 5 groups and over 50 people total. I gave folks instructions in advance to make sure to use an updated version of Teams. The desktop version should automatically update, but if they were using mobile devices I instructed?them to update the device in advance. I also made sure to tell people to use the app rather than the browser view. I kept that main room as breakout room one, so that folks who joined by phone or perhaps got kicked out would have a space.?

It went relatively smoothly. However, I discovered that I could only assign folks?to one room and have them return to home. I had hoped I would be able to move someone into a separate group?if they returned to the breakout?room, and this was not the case.


On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 5:58 AM christine koehler <chrisihab@...> wrote:
Hi everyone,

As some of you, I have clients who say a definitive no to Zoom.

So my question is for MS teams users : did you have meetings with over 50 participants on Teams, working with breakout rooms (possibly 2 different rounds, 1 with 2 or 3 people, one with 4 or 5) . How did it go ?

I know breakout rooms feature is enabled, but as it is quite recent, I wonder if it has the fluidity I need.

I would really appreciate some stories..

Have a good day
Christine?



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Hi Christine,?
I have been teaching using MS Teams since September. In my experience, breakout rooms are really clunky and lack flexibility. The solution I found was to create channels and name them as breakout rooms. In the plenary, I give the group a schedule ( you can't close a meeting in a channel as you close a breakout room in Zoom) and appoint a person to start a meeting in each channel (anybody can start a different meeting and confusion can occur). My students got used to it, and I can jump from a meeting to another. I don't know how well would it work with a one off meeting.? After trying breakout rooms a couple of times and having to deal with stranded participants,? this solution worked for me.

Best of luck,
Gabriela?

On Fri 5 Mar 2021, 10:58 christine koehler, <chrisihab@...> wrote:
Hi everyone,

As some of you, I have clients who say a definitive no to Zoom.

So my question is for MS teams users : did you have meetings with over 50 participants on Teams, working with breakout rooms (possibly 2 different rounds, 1 with 2 or 3 people, one with 4 or 5) . How did it go ?

I know breakout rooms feature is enabled, but as it is quite recent, I wonder if it has the fluidity I need.

I would really appreciate some stories..

Have a good day
Christine?


 

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Hi Enrico?
Interesting to hear that iOS users (I am one of them ;)) have difficulties with it.?
Testing for sure. But if ?hardware pb, sounds difficult to solve without Microsoft..
Thanks for your story Enrico, definitively important to know


Hi Sarah
Thank you so much for detailed instructions. Indeed, it is not easy for people to realize that mobile and web version give a very different experience. (Same with Zoom)
Interesting to learn that you can assign people to one room only, thanks for the information !

Hi Gabriela
That¡¯s an interesting hack. Especially if you are working regularly with same group.
Interestingly enough, one of my client say that channels don¡¯t work well for them and prefer the main room +/breakout system.?
As I don't see why channels don¡¯t work for them, I have no arguments. That¡¯s frustrating. ;)
But I¡¯ll keep this in mind ?


I am opening a google doc with all answers. I¡¯ll add all new stories in them
My intention is to get an idea of te issues and eventually, to share with IT dit of client to get them realize that there ARE issues.

Or

If there are ways to run large participatory meetings properly on MS Teams, to be aware of best practices. (Finger crossed)

All your stories are welcome. ;)

Christine?


Le 5 mars 2021 ¨¤ 12:56, Enrico Teotti <enrico@...> a ¨¦crit :

I had pretty bad experiences with breakout in teams.

I purposely run a session on it to test it in a safe space.?

Some people (on os x clients) were not able to join and were bumped out of the meeting when they were assigned to breakouts. I¡¯d suggest to test before hand ;(



On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 11:58 AM christine koehler <chrisihab@...> wrote:
Hi everyone,

As some of you, I have clients who say a definitive no to Zoom.

So my question is for MS teams users : did you have meetings with over 50 participants on Teams, working with breakout rooms (possibly 2 different rounds, 1 with 2 or 3 people, one with 4 or 5) . How did it go ?

I know breakout rooms feature is enabled, but as it is quite recent, I wonder if it has the fluidity I need.

I would really appreciate some stories..

Have a good day
Christine?


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On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 7:24 PM christine koehler <chrisihab@...> wrote:
Hi Enrico?
Interesting to hear that iOS users (I am one of them ;)) have difficulties with it.?
Testing for sure. But if ?hardware pb, sounds difficult to solve without Microsoft..
Thanks for your story Enrico, definitively important to know
It was actually the Teams app on OSX (meaning macbooks), when I tested the Teams app on iOS (iPhone and iPad) breakouts worked fine?

I bet there is still some Windows 95 code lying around??¡á??


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