Today in this article, I will guide you on how to do breakout rooms in Zoom webinar. you’ll get a complete step-by-step process how you can do it without trouble.
Whether you’re leading a workshop, training session, or brainstorming meeting, breakout rooms can make your Zoom webinar more interactive and engaging.
By the end, you’ll be ready to make the most out of your Zoom webinars and create a dynamic, collaborative experience for your attendees.
So, let’s get started and turn your next webinar into an interactive event with effective breakout rooms! Before creating a breakout room you must learn how to enable a breakout room in Zoom.
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Why Breakout Room is Important
Breakout rooms in Zoom webinars are a powerful tool for making your online events more engaging and interactive. Zoom allows you to divide a massive audience into smaller groups. To save time you can also pre-assign breakout rooms in Zoom.
which can lead to more focused discussions, better participation, and more meaningful interactions.
Without breakout rooms, it can be challenging to get everyone involved in a large webinar, and you might miss out on valuable insights from your audience.
By using breakout rooms, you can ensure that participants have a chance to share their thoughts, collaborate with others, and dive deeper into topics.
In short, knowing how to effectively use breakout rooms can transform your webinar from a one-way presentation into a dynamic, collaborative experience.
This makes it easier to connect with your audience, encourage active participation, and achieve your event’s goals. you can also learn how to transfer ownership in a Zoom meeting.
How to do Breakout Rooms in Zoom Webinar During Meeting
Before creating the breakout room, Keep in mind the participants can attend the meeting on desktop as well as mobile but host is mandatory to use the desktop app to create the breakout room.
Here is the method given below on how to do breakout rooms in Zoom during meetings on a laptop, Zoom workplace:
1. log in to your Zoom account and start the meeting.
2. Go to the bottom in the right corner and click on the breakout room.
(Breakout room pop-up will appear)
3. Now choose the number of breakout rooms, how much you want to create, and how you assign your participants.
- Assign Automatically – Automatically split all the participants equally in the breakout rooms.
- Assign Manually – You have to choose among the participants for each room.
- Let participants choose a room– Participants choose the rooms and enter their own once the meeting is launched.
4. Now click on Create.
Your breakrooms are created but will not start automatically until you complete the rest of the process.
Options for Breakout Rooms
1. Once you create the breakout room, Click on the option for window and click on settings for MacOS device.
2. Check any one option from below as per your choice
- Allow participants to choose rooms: Participants can select the room independently.
- Automatically move all assigned participants into breakout rooms: If you check this option, Then all the participants will move to the breakout room automatically.
- Allow participants to return to the main session at any time: Checking this option, they can return to the main session independently. Otherwise, they have to wait until the host or co-host ends the breakout room.
- Auto close breakout room after minutes: If you select this option, the breakout room will end automatically after the configured time.
- Set Countdown timer: If you select this option, the Participants can see the countdown.
After choosing the right option as per your convenience, now follow the below process to assign the participant and then create a breakout room.
And you’re ready to launch for meetings..!! Learn to manage breakout rooms.
How to Assign Manually in Breakout Room
Here I will show you how you can add participants manually in the breakout rooms by following the step-by-step process:
1. When the breakout room panel appears on the screen.
2. Select Assign Manually.
3. To assign participants, go to the rooms and click Assign in each room.
4. Then tick on the check box next to the selected participants.
5. Finally select all the participants in the room. click on open all Rooms.
You will now see each participant enter the breakout room based on which room you have selected for them.
This process makes sure all participants receive the same information, Each participant can see you in their breakout rooms which is especially useful for group activities and presentations. Screen sharing makes meetings more interesting and engaging.
1. Click on the Share Screen.
2. Go to the bottom of the share window and enable the share to breakout rooms.
3. Now select among the options including an entire screen, a specific open program, or other.
(Optional: You can share sound
4. Finally, Click on share.
Conclusion
The breakout room is a crucial feature to use in a webinar if your participants are in large numbers. You must divide them into a small group to make them more focused, interesting, and engaging, and get the most out of it. To do an effective and influential webinar, follow the steps I have shared above in the article on how to do breakout rooms in Zoom webinar.