Microsoft Teams Adds Breakout Rooms!

 

The day educators have waited for all year has finally arrived!  Today, Microsoft has officially launched Breakout Rooms for Microsoft Teams.  The feature is pretty awesome and it's pretty easy to use and set up.

How To Create a Team Breakout Room?

Step 1

To start a breakout room, click on the Breakout rooms icon on the top right of your Teams meeting window.

Step 2

From here, you will see a screen where you have the option of creating any number of Teams Breakout rooms.  You can create up to 50 breakout rooms all in one session.

Step 3

Once you have your breakout rooms set up you can adjust any needed sessions and adjust settings.

Each breakout room has individual settings that can be adjusted using the 3-dots on the right side.

In addition, breakout rooms can be renamed after they are created.

Step 4

Once you have your breakout sessions as you want them, you have the option of adjusting the settings in your overall breakout groups. Note that one of the selections here is to allow students to jump back into the main meeting room.

You can also recreate the rooms and start over from scratch if needed.

Step 5

Once you start your meeting and are with your students, you can assign your participants (if you selected to do so manually) to the breakout rooms.