Using Breakout Rooms with Zoom

Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. The meeting host or co-host can choose to split the participants of the meeting into these separate sessions automatically or manually, or they can allow participants to select and enter breakout sessions as they please. The host or co-host can switch between sessions at any time.

Start an instant or scheduled meeting.
Click Breakout Rooms.
Select the number of rooms you would like to create, and how you would like to assign your participants to those rooms:
- Automatically: Let Zoom split your participants up evenly into each of the rooms.
- Manually: Choose which participants you would like in each room.
- Let participants choose room: Participants can select and enter rooms on their own.
Click Create Breakout Rooms.
Your rooms will be created, but will not start automatically. You can manage the rooms prior to starting them by following the instructions below.