Setting Up Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams

How to Create Breakout Rooms

1. Go to your Teams calendar and open the meeting invite.
2. Find Breakout rooms and select Create rooms.
3. Select the number of rooms you want to add and select Add rooms.
4. Select Assign Participants.
5. If you would like Teams to assign participants to rooms, select Automatically. If you would like to assign participants to rooms yourself, select Manually.
6. If you choose Manually then select Next.
7. Choose the participants you want in a room by checking the boxes next to their names.
8. Select the down arrow next to Assign and select a room.
9. Repeat this step until all participants have a room assignment. When you are finished, select Confirm.
10. Make sure the Deaf participant(s) are in the same breakout room as the sign language interpreter and/or captioner.

How to Start Breakout Rooms

1. In the meeting controls, select Breakout rooms.
2. To open all the rooms, select Open.
3. To open a single room, hover over the room. The … ellipsis will appear. Click on the ellipsis.
4. Select Open room.

How to Close Breakout Rooms

1. In the meeting controls, select Breakout rooms.
2. To close all rooms, select Close.
3. To close an individual room, hover over the room and select More options.
4. Select Close room.

How to Move a Participant to a Different Breakout Room

1. In the meeting controls, select Breakout rooms.
2. Select Assign participants and check the box next to the participant you want to move.
3. Choose a new room for the participant and select Assign.
4. Select Move.