Breakout Rooms for Participants - Google Meet
- Sam Kardasz
*If you are using the Meet app (instead of the website), please ensure it is up to date. Running an out-of-date app may interfere with your ability to join breakout rooms.
Join a breakout room
Your moderator will create breakout rooms and invite you to join one. Your moderator can join each breakout room at any time during the video call.
Join the video call from your computer or the Meet mobile app*.
When your moderator invites you to join a breakout room, you'll see a prompt on your screen. Click Join. If you click cancel, you'll remain in the main room.
Tip : If you dialed in through your phone, tap *2 to go to your breakout room, move between breakout rooms, or return to the main room.
Once you're in a breakout room, you can speak to or send chat messages to other participants.
Tips for using breakout rooms
If your moderator moves you to another breakout room, you'll see a new prompt on your screen. To switch rooms, click Join.
If the moderator sets a timer, the time left in the breakout session is shown at the top of your screen.
When the breakout session ends, you have 30 seconds before your mic and camera turn off and you're automatically moved to the main room.
You can turn your mic and camera back on when the moderator allows you.
If the host joins your breakout room, you’ll see this notification at the top of your screen.
Ask for help
If you need help during your breakout room session, you can ask the host for help.
Computer: On the top of your screen, click Ask for help.
If you don't need help anymore, click Cancel ask for help.
Mobile: On the bottom right, tap Menu and choose Ask for help. If you don't need help anymore, tap Cancel ask for help.
Dial-in users currently can't ask for help.
Return to the main room
During a video call, you can choose to leave a breakout room and return to the video call's main room.
On a computer: At the top, click Return to main call.
On a mobile device: At the top, tap to Return to main call.
When the moderator ends the breakout room session, you get an on-screen prompt to return to the main call. You can tap or click the prompt or wait to be moved automatically to the main call.
