Pre-Assigned Breakout Rooms in Zoom

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

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 classlist from eLC. You can do this by exporting the gradebook and selecting the option to export their usernames. See this video on how to prepare the file .CSV file to upload to Zoom. See example of .CSV file below.
   
   

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

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

    

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Schedule a Meeting:

1. Select the Meetings menu item form the left side menu
   
   

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2. Select Breakout Room Pre-Assign and import from CSV. See sample .CSV file here.
   
   

    

3. Click on Import from .CSV and drag and drop the file

4. Zoom will show the breakout of each room. Check assignments for each room.
   
   

    

5. Start the meeting,

6. Select Breakout Rooms

7. Select Recreate > Recover to pre-assigned rooms
   
   

    

8. Open rooms for participants.