Microsoft Teams: Breakout Rooms

Summary

Breakout rooms are useful for group projects or work team collaborations.

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Question

How do you use Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams?

Answer

Expected Outcomes

  • Work on group projects
  • Connect with each other

 

NOTE:  Microsoft Teams does not automatically assign members to breakout rooms. You are responsible for determining the groups and manually adding individuals to each breakout group (channel).

A. Create a channel for breakout groups

  1. Start with a Team / Class you've already created.                                                                               accessing the team you created
  2. Click on three dots (More Options)to the right name of the team name.
      
    how to select "More options" by hovering and clicking on the 3 dots
  3. Select Add channel.                                                                                                                 How to "Add channel"
  4. Give the channel a name and select the channel type.a picture of channel name and description

     5. Click Create.  a picture of create button                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

                 6.  After creating the channel, add members to each one.

                     If the "Add members" option doesn't appear automatically, click the three dots next to the breakout

                      group/channel name and select Add members.

                 7.  Repeat these steps for each breakout group you need.

a picture of the add button to add members to team channel

 

                                            

                    

B.  Visit Group Meetings to Check Progress

  1. Click the name of the channel to enter it.                                                                                                                                                                                                      
  2. Click Meet Now at the bottom of the page to join the discussion.                                                                                                                 meet now icon
  3. Use the Play/Pause button to move from one breakout to the another.
  4. Use the Red Phone icon to leave the breakout session.                                                                                                                                                                                     red phone icon to leave meeting 

C.  Additional Resources

 

Video Tutorial:

How to Use Breakout Rooms by Kevin Stratvert, Microsoft Employee

Stratvert, K, (May 19, 2020) How to use Breakout Rooms

 

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Article ID: 111456
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