What can students do in breakout rooms? (2023)

What roles can students have in breakout rooms?

Possible roles include first-to-speak, note-taker, reporter, timekeeper, equity monitor, or questioner/devil's advocate. Randomly assign roles or select students with an equitable prompt. This may have the added benefit of acting as an icebreaker.

Breakout rooms are sessions that are split off from the main Zoom meeting. They allow the participants to meet in smaller groups, and are completely isolated in terms of audio and video from the main session. Breakout rooms can be used for collaboration and discussion of the meeting.

Breakout room discussions work better when the topic, case study, or question is interesting and complex enough to discuss for at least 5-10 minutes. Questions or tasks that are either too easy, too difficult, or too vague can result in silence in the breakout rooms.

Whiteboards can also be used in Zoom breakout rooms. One student in each room can share their screen with the whiteboard, so long as you have allowed all participants to share their screens. To enable this setting, go to “Share Screen” at the bottom of your Zoom meeting.

The host of the meeting will not be assigned to a breakout room and cannot see or hear what is happening in the breakout rooms during the meeting. Also, the breakout rooms cannot hear or see what is happening in the other breakout rooms as well.

Breakout rooms give students the opportunity to collaborate, experiment, analyze, discuss, and dissect. Instructors can incorporate these activities in almost any class by putting a spin on traditional classroom practices.

Screen sharing – You can share your screen in a Breakout Room just as you would in a regular meeting. However, the host must enable participants to share their screens in Breakout Rooms.

What are the disadvantages of breakout rooms?

Usually, breakout rooms participants can't select breakout rooms they want to be in, they can't self-select their groups. Only the main meeting host and co-host can enable breakout rooms, close all rooms, have a pop-up, or broadcast messages to the breakout rooms.

The best event breakout sessions include a participatory element that builds engagement and distinguishes the breakout from more passive conference moments, such as the keynote and panel discussions. They also have facilitators who know how to lead sessions and draw participants out, without being overbearing.

Simply open a Teams meeting invite, navigate to Breakout rooms, and select Create rooms. Organizers can choose how many rooms they need and create them in advance.

: a presentation, discussion, or activity that takes place as part of a larger event (such as a conference, convention, or seminar) and for which some of the event's participants temporarily separate themselves from the others.

All participants present in the main room or in a Breakout Room may annotate the Whiteboard, unless the instructor or meeting leader has withdrawn annotation permission.

If the host/co-host is sharing screen to breakout rooms from the main room, participants in the breakout room cannot share screen.

Spotlight is not available in Breakout Rooms. If you need to show just one person, you can have everyone else Mute their video (and have hide non video participants enabled).

NOTE: The host will see the Breakout Rooms icon on their Zoom toolbar whether the rooms are open or closed. Co-hosts, however, will not see the Breakout Rooms option on their toolbar once the rooms are closed.

So if you get stuck in a breakout room with your class crush and absolutely have to flirt during class time, your host isn't saving it to the cloud. So, good luck, soldier. We're all in your corner. But… the meeting host can “walk in” on your breakout room without participants knowing.

Do teachers record breakout rooms?

Students and teachers can record Breakout Rooms just like they can in a regular Teams meeting. More options . 3. Open the menu and select Start recording.

The host can broadcast a message to all breakout rooms, to share information with all participants. Note: This must be enabled in your breakout room settings. In the meeting controls, click Breakout Rooms . Click Broadcast, and select Broadcast Message.

Breakout rooms give students in online courses an opportunity to collaborate and work in smaller groups. Students report feeling engaged in breakout room activities, and confident speaking in a small group. Breakout rooms also allow instructors an opportunity to check-in with students in smaller groups.

Using Zoom breakout rooms can help students feel a sense of community and social presence. When using Breakout Rooms encourage students to use audio and video where possible. Keeping breakout rooms to between 6 and 8 students will help everyone feel engaged.

Choose “share screen” but then choose “advanced” at the top of the screen, and then choose “music or computer sound only.” Once you've done that, start the music and Zoom will share whatever audio you play on your computer while you and participants can still see each other. When you're done, “stop share.”

Select “Share Screen” from the meeting control bar. Select which screen or application window you would like to share then select to “Share to breakout rooms” then select “Share” When you are ready to stop sharing to the breakout rooms, select “Stop Share” from the meeting control bar.

Hosts and co-hosts cannot send chat messages to the breakout rooms from the main session. While inside a room, participants cannot send chat messages to the host while inside a room, but can request assistance.

A breakout room is a sub-room that is used to make a large group smaller to collaborate and share out. Breakout rooms are used by educators near and far during synchronous instruction. Virtual teaching during whole group lessons does not allow for all students to unmute and share their complete thoughts.

Breakout sessions are usually short, say 30 minutes. But it depends on your case. So, assess how much time your participants will need to reach the objectives of the session. Make sure you won't use necessary time of your main meeting and you don't overlap with other sessions.

What do you talk about in a breakout room?

The host can admit each participant one at a time, or all at once. If pre-assignments for breakout rooms are active, participants will be asked to join their pre-assigned breakout rooms. Otherwise, the host can assign participants directly to the breakout room of their choosing.

The host or co-host can mute all participants that are already in the meeting, as well as new participants joining the meeting.

If you would like to have your co-host(s) join breakout rooms to assist participants in those rooms, you can assign them to a room and then use the Options menu to allow your co-hosts to return to the main meeting so you can assign them to the next breakout room.

Once breakout rooms have been set up in a Zoom meeting, if you are either host or co-host, you can move in and out of breakout rooms at will. As host, you can join and leave any breakout room from the main meeting room.

Previously, the meeting host had to assign a participant to a Breakout Room. Now, when the Self-Select Breakout Rooms option is enabled by the host (and when the host and participants are on Zoom 5.3. 0 or later), participants can move freely between Breakout Rooms without needing the host's help.

As the host, you will not be sorted into one of the breakout rooms, and cannot hear what is being discussed in the Breakout Rooms. However, you can visit individual Breakout Rooms to check in on the discussions happening in a particular room.

Muting all participants

The host or co-host can mute all participants that are already in the meeting, as well as new participants joining the meeting. Click Participants located in the meeting controls.

Students and teachers can record Breakout Rooms just like they can in a regular Teams meeting. More options . 3. Open the menu and select Start recording.

Can teachers hear breakout rooms teams?

No, teachers cannot hear breakout rooms. If you are in a breakout room your teacher cannot hear anything what is being said in the breakout room. The only way a teacher can hear a breakout room is to enter the breakout room themselves.

To enable breakout rooms for your Zoom account, in your Zoom site, go to Settings, then in your In Meeting (Advanced) settings, enable Breakout room. Also check Allow host to assign participants to breakout rooms when scheduling. b. Click Create, then assign participants to breakout rooms and re-name rooms, if needed.

Who can assign people to breakout rooms? Only the primary host of a Zoom meeting can assign users to breakout rooms, co-hosts do not share this ability (see this table for a full breakdown of meeting roles).

You can only recover breakout rooms that were pre-assigned. You cannot recover breakout rooms that were automatically assigned. For additional assistance, please contact Information Technology Services at 419-372-0999 or through chat.

Participating in a Breakout Room

Self-select your Breakout Room – You can now select which Breakout Room you would like to join, if the host has enabled this feature. This means meeting participants can move freely between Breakout Rooms without the host having to assign them one.

If the chat is enabled, the chat messages in each breakout room are only available to those participants in the breakout room. (Example: Attendees in Room 1 cannot see breakout room chat messages among attendees in Room 2, and vice versa.) Your chat history follows you.