Google Meet / Google Meet Power User
Use Breakout rooms
Breakout rooms can be used to divide meeting participants into smaller groups during a video call. Participants can switch between breakout rooms and return to the main room at any time.
Setting up breakout rooms
If you have a large meeting and want to split into smaller groups for more targeted discussions, you can use breakout rooms.
To create a breakout room:
Click on the Activities button in the bottom-right corner of the screen
Choose Breakout rooms
Click on Set up breakout rooms
Along the top of the Breakout Rooms pane, choose the number of breakout rooms you wish to create
Drag the names of the meeting attendees so that each person appears under the room you wish them to be placed in. Leave the people under Main Call that you do not want to move into a breakout room
You can set a name for each breakout room by clicking on the temporary name e.g. Breakout 1 and replacing it with a new name
Click on the Timer button to set a timer for people to break into separate rooms - after this time has passed, everyone will be returned to the main call automatically
Click on Shuffle if you want to assign people to breakout rooms randomly
Click on Open rooms to create the breakout rooms and invite people to join their allocated room
The meeting moderator can close all breakout rooms to return all attendees to the main Meet call at any time. This is done by clicking on the Close Rooms button.
Joining a breakout room
If you have been placed in a breakout room by the meeting organiser, you will be prompted to join the room when it is opened. Click on Join to join the breakout room.
When you have joined the breakout room, a banner will display along the top of the screen to show you are no longer in the main meeting room - click on Return to main call to leave the breakout room at any time.
If the meeting organiser closes the breakout room, you will be placed back in the main meeting room automatically after 30 seconds.