Pre-Assigned Breakout Rooms in Zoom

Preparation:

1. Make sure students go to https://uga.zoom.us/ and click “Sign in”. (It is important they use this address because otherwise, they might create or use a non-UGA account.)

2. After students have completed step one, export the class roster from eLC. Their username myids@uga.edu will be listed.

3. Sign in to https://uga.zoom.us/ and select Settings from the left side menu.

4. Enable the Breakout room feature to assign participants to breakout rooms when scheduling.

    

   

   
   Schedule the meeting

Select:  Breakout Room Pere-Assign and import from CSV

Click on Import from CSV and Drag and drop csv flat file

Will give breakout room 1:

Breakout Room 2

Start the meeting,

Go to:  Breakout Rooms

Select:  Recreate All Rooms

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Zoom Article

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360032752671-Pre-assigning-participants-to-breakout-rooms

Pre-assigning participants to breakout rooms

Overview

As a meeting host, you can split your meeting participants into breakout rooms when scheduling the meeting. This can be useful if you already know how you want to split up your participants.

You can also manage your breakout rooms during the meeting.

This article covers:

·        Limitations

·        Pre-assigning participants to breakout rooms using the web portal

·        Pre-assigning participants to breakouts rooms using a CSV file

·        Editing breakout rooms assignment

·        Starting a meeting with pre-assigned breakout rooms

·        Recovering to pre-assigned breakout rooms

Prerequisites

·        Breakout rooms enabled in your meeting settings

·        Host: Zoom Desktop Client on Windows or macOS, version 4.5.0 or higher
Note: If you start the meeting from the Linux client or Zoom Mobile App, you will not be able to see your breakout rooms with pre-assigned participants.

·        Participants: Zoom Desktop Client or Mobile App, version 4.5.0 or higher
Note:

·        When joining a meeting with pre-assignments, participants need to be signed in to their Zoom account for pre-assignments to be applied.

·        Participants will not be pre-assigned if they join from the web client.

Limitations

·        You can only pre-assign participants that have a Zoom account (internal or external Zoom users).

·        When pre-assigning participants using the web portal, you can only pre-assign internal Zoom users that are in the same account.

·        To pre-assign participants that are external Zoom users, import a CSV file.

·        If you have registration enabled and external participants register for the meeting, you need to assign them to breakout rooms during the meeting.

·        Up to 200 participants can be pre-assigned to breakout rooms.

Pre-assigning participants to breakout rooms using the web portal

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.

1. Click 

Meetings and schedule a meeting.

1. In the 

Meeting Options section, select Breakout Room pre-assign and click Create Rooms.

1. Click the plus icon beside 

Rooms to add breakout rooms.

1. Hover over the default breakout room name and click the pencil icon to rename it.

1. In the 

Add participants text box, search for participants' name or email address to add them to the breakout room.
Note: You can add internal Zoom users that are in the same account. To pre-assign participants that are external Zoom users, import a CSV file.

1. (Optional) Use these options to edit your breakout rooms and participants:

·        Click and drag a participant's email address to change the order.

·        Hover over a participant's name to see options to move them to another room or remove them from the current room.

·        To delete a breakout room, hover the room name in the left panel and click the trash bin icon. 

1. Click 

Save.

Pre-assigning participants to breakouts rooms using a CSV file

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.

1. Click 

Meetings and schedule a meeting.

1. In the 

Meeting Options section, select Breakout Room pre-assign and click Import from CSV.

1. Click 

download to download a sample CSV file you can fill out.

1. Open the CSV file with spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel.

Note: You can specify internal or external Zoom users.

1. Fill in the 

Pre-assign Room Name column with the breakout room name, and the Email Address column with the assigned participant's email address. 

1. Save the file.

1. Drag and drop the file in the web portal.

Zoom will verify that the email address has a Zoom account.

Editing breakout rooms assignment

If you have already pre-assigned participants to breakouts rooms, you can edit the assignments before you start the meeting. 

Note: You can also manage breakout rooms during the meeting.

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.

1. Click 

Meetings and click the meeting you want to edit.

1. In the 

Breakout Room section, click View detail.

1. Edit the breakout rooms as needed. See the 

previous section for more details.

1. Click 

Save.

Starting a meeting with pre-assigned breakout rooms

1. Start the meeting with participants pre-assigned to breakout rooms. 

1. Click 

Breakout Rooms in the meeting controls to access the breakout rooms you created.

Note:

·        If a participant is not be automatically assigned to the breakout room you specified when scheduling the meeting. Recover to pre-assigned breakout rooms to assign participants to their pre-assigned breakout rooms.

·        You can manually assign participants using the in-meeting breakout room controls.

1. Click 

Open All Rooms to start the breakout rooms.

Recovering to pre-assigned breakout rooms

After starting the breakout rooms, you can recover to the breakout rooms assignment you previously specified. This can be useful if you changed your breakout rooms during the meeting, or pre-assigned participants have joined the meeting after you joined the meeting or started breakout rooms. 

1. Start the meeting with participants pre-assigned to breakout rooms. 

1. Click 

Close All Rooms to end all breakout rooms.

1. Click 

Recreate then Recover to pre-assigned rooms. 

Participants will be re-organized into the breakout rooms you specified when scheduling the meeting.

Learn more about managing breakout rooms.

·        breakout_room_sample.csv (163 Bytes)

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