How to enable, create and use Virtual Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams

❓️ What is required to use breakout rooms ?

1. Teams Admin needs to enable the required settings from Teams Admin Center.
2. You need to be the Meeting Organizer. Presenters and attendees cannot provision yet.
3. Works only with Teams Desktop Cleint App, Web or Mobile. Microsoft Teams Rooms do not have breakout room capabilities yet.
4. Works only with the new Teams meeting experience. Enable here, Teams --> Settings --> General --> Check "Turn on new meeting experience".
5. Be meeting organizer to record meetings, participants cannot.

❓️ How can universirty/school teachers and students use Breakout Rooms ?

1. Breakout Rooms for university teachers and student work the same way as it works for organizational accounts.
2. Educators can push students into the breakout rooms and pull them back to the main meeting.
3. Students can be assigned to breakout rooms and they can join breakout rooms from Desktop/Mobile/Web.chat.
4. Students can use the whiteboard or screen share if they are allowed.
5. Same security policies and options apply to the breakout room.

⭐ Features of breakout rooms ?

1. Works for organizational and external users.
2. Create up to 50 rooms.
3. Add upto 10 participants per room.
4. Assign and organize participants manually or automatically.
5. Start, open/close rooms.
6. Move participants between rooms.
7. Reopen rooms.
8. Record, share files, sue whiteboars, capture notes, download attendance.
9. Participants logged in from multiple devices will have all end points join the same breakout room.

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