Breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams meetings

Description/What is it?

Do you need to create breakout rooms in MS Teams?

Prerequisite

You must be a meeting organizer or a presenter in the meeting.

Would you like some self-help with this topic?

To create breakout rooms before a meeting:

1. In your Teams calendar, select a meeting to view details.

2. Select Breakout rooms > Create rooms.

3. Choose the number of rooms you want (up to 50) and select Add rooms.

4. Select Assign participants  .

5. Choose to assign people to rooms automatically or manually.

6. Select Next > Save.

As soon as the meeting starts, you can open the breakout rooms.

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To create breakout rooms during a meeting:

1. Start the meeting.

2. In the meeting controls, select Rooms  .

3. Do the following:

   1. Choose the number of rooms you want (up to 50).

   2. Choose to assign people to rooms automatically or manually.

4. Select Create rooms.

To add another breakout room during the meeting, select Rooms   > Add room   in the meeting controls.

Note: You won't be able to automatically assign people to breakout rooms later in the meeting.