How To Set Up Breakout Rooms In Teams

February 09, 2022 | 2 min read | Microsoft Teams

In this video, Callum from The HBP Group’s Tech How Team explains how to set up breakout rooms for Microsoft Teams in Office 365. If you prefer to find out how to set up breakout rooms for Microsoft Teams with written instructions, we have included these further down the page.

Step-by-Step Guide

Stage 1: Creating Breakout Rooms

Creating breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams is simple and straight forward. Once you are in a Teams meeting just follow these simple steps.

1) From within a live meeting windows click the “Breakout rooms” icon in the top right of the screen.

How To Setup Breakout Rooms In Teams

2) Choose the number of rooms you wish to create from the drop-down menu

How To Setup Breakout Rooms In Teams

3) Select “Automatically” or “Manually” and then click “Create rooms”.

 

Stage 2: For Manual Room Allocation

1) Select participants you wish to be in a particular room

 How To Set Up Breakout Rooms In Teams

2) Click on the “Assign” drop-down to select which room the participants go in to.

3) Click the “Assign”.

 

Stage 3: Close Breakout Rooms

1) To close the rooms select the “Remove rooms” icon (which looks like a bin).

Set Up Breakout Rooms In Microsoft Teams

2) You will then be given the option to delete all existing rooms, the just click the “Remove” option and everyone will return to the original meeting space.

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