Breakout rooms

A breakout room can be used to split your audience into specific groups for team-building tasks, leaner-specific activities and even offer varying course content based on specific user needs.  

For example, if you have 100 participants in a session, you can split them into 10 groups with 10 learners each and have different tasks/lesson schedule running in each room.  

To launch a breakout room: 

1. Once you launch a session, click on Breakout room in the bottom pane. 

2. You can choose the number of rooms you wish to split your audience into by clicking on the drop-down. 

3. You can also choose to manually assign the participants to specific rooms and have them split automatically to each room. 

4. Once participants have been allocated their respective rooms, you can click on Open breakout rooms on the top right to launch the breakout session. 

Enter a breakout room

1. From the main session, you can view the list of learners in each room and you can choose to enter any room that you wish. To enter a room, click on Join next to the room's name. 

2. Each room gets it's own chat room, room settings and you can also click on the People tab to view the list of participants in that specific room. 

Leave a breakout room 

When you're inside a breakout room and you wish to leave that room, you can hover to the top pane where you will have to option to leave the room. 

Change the name of a breakout room 

To change the name of a breakout room, you can use the edit option next to the room's name from the main session. 

Delete a breakout room 

1. To delete any created breakout room, you can click on the X icon in the top pane of the created breakout room to delete the room. 

2. Click Yes on the dialogue box that pops-up as shown below. 

Close breakout room 

To terminate all breakout sessions, navigate to the main session (if you're currently inside any room) and click on Close breakout rooms in the top right. 

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