Breakout Rooms - Google Meet

Moderators can use breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller groups during video calls.

Breakout rooms must be started by a moderator on a computer.

Breakout rooms currently cannot be live streamed or recorded.

You can’t participate in breakout rooms if you aren’t using an updated version of the Meet app.

1	Create a new Google Calendar event. If you’ve already created your event, open the existing event and click Edit.
2	Click the Add video conferencing tab and select Google Meet. A meeting link will populate.
3	Add your meeting participants by adding them to the Guests section of the calendar event.
4	Click Change conference settings (gear icon next to Google Meet link)
5	On the left, click Breakout Rooms.
6	Choose the number of breakout rooms, then choose an option: Drag participants into different rooms Enter names directly into a room Click Shuffle to mix the groups Click Clear to reset your rooms.
7	Click Save.

1	While in an active meeting, click Activities > Breakout rooms.
2	In the breakout rooms panel, choose the number of breakout rooms. You can create up to 100 breakout rooms.
3	Click Shuffle to randomly assign participants to the rooms. To manually move people into different rooms, you can: Enter the participant’s name directly into a breakout room. Drag and drop a participant’s name into a breakout room.
4	At the bottom right, click Open rooms.

A notification will show at the bottom of the screen when participants ask for help from the moderator.
To join that participant’s breakout room, click Join. To come back to the request later, click Later.
On the breakout room panel, an “Asked for help” banner shows above rooms that ask for help.

At the top of the breakout room panel, click Clear.

At the bottom of your screen, click Clear on the “Clear disconnected users” notification that appears.

Rooms display a 30 second countdown before the timer ends.

1	At the top of the breakout rooms panel, click Timer. Set the timer amount and click OK.
2	You can edit or remove the timer at any time by clicking on Timer on the breakout room panel.

1	To join an individual breakout room, next to the breakout room number, click Join.
2	To leave all breakout rooms and return to the main room, next to the current breakout room, click Leave.

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In the breakout rooms panel, click Close rooms.

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Click Close all rooms.

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Important: Participants have 30 seconds to finish their breakout room discussion before they’re automatically moved back to the main room.

To close all rooms before the 30-second timer runs out, return to the breakout rooms panel and click Close rooms now.