Teachblend takes a look at how to use Microsoft Teams New Feature Breakout Rooms!. A Teacher / Tutor guide to using breakout rooms in remote/online lessons. Breakout rooms allows you to assign students to smaller online meetings. This is great for small group work or further discussions away from the main class.
The guidance also shows student views and how this works for students as well as on their mobile devices.
The meeting organizer can create up to 50 breakout rooms and choose to automatically or manually assign participants into rooms. The organizer can start a breakout room in a Teams meeting or a Teams channel meeting, allowing greater flexibility on how you want to meet. Using the breakout room settings, the meeting organizer can choose to allow participants to come back to the main meeting at any time, then return to the assigned breakout room. This way participants can ask a clarifying question without disturbing the breakout room discussions. Also, organizers can use the setting to re-create breakout rooms in the same meeting. This allows them to assign participants into new room setups.
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