Zoom, Meetings, Breakout Rooms

This document provides information on how to create and manage meeting breakout rooms.

Breakout rooms allow hosts to partition their attendees into collaborative groups and are a great way for hosts to allow for smaller discussions during a Zoom meeting. Participants have full audio, video and the ability to screen share capability (if granted the permission). Breakout rooms are accessed from the menu bar in the meeting. If you do not see this in your bar, please check under More (...). You can drag it out to your menu bar, if required.

An image of the Breakout rooms button on the Zoom meeting menu bar.

Managing Meeting Breakout Rooms

Zoom support provides detailed information meeting breakout rooms: Managing Meeting Breakout Rooms

Topics covered include:

  • Requirements to use breakout rooms
  • Limitations of breakout rooms
  • Host & co-host permissions for managing breakout rooms
  • How to create, prepare and manage breakout rooms on Windows, MacOS, Linux, and the web client
  • Changing your breakout room options
  • Saving assignments for future use
  • Sharing your screen to all breakout rooms
  • Viewing the activity status of participants in each room

Keywords:
meeting, meet, collaboration, break, out, room, manage, limitations, assignment, participant, engagement 
Doc ID:
98840
Owned by:
zoom G. in University of Illinois Technology Services
Created:
2020-03-13
Updated:
2026-10-15
Sites:
UI Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Technology Services