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We've all been there, in a Zoom call with a dozen other people and everyone goes silent because those intimate conversations you normally have at a party with a close friend are now being broadcast to ...

Instructors can use the Zoom Web Conferencing tool to create breakout rooms during their meetings. This feature allows you to split the participants into separate sessions automatically or manually.

Breakout rooms allow you to split one Zoom meeting into several separate simultaneous sessions. This is a great feature to use if, for example, you want to break students into groups to discuss class ...

Click the Breakout room button on meeting control bar (it may be under the More menu). Choose the number of rooms you want to create and how many attendees should be in each. Attendees can be moved ...

Pre-assigning breakout rooms is possible, but is very confusing and challenging to get right. Therefore, it is a tool that only advanced Zoom users should attempt. Media Services strongly recommends ...

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. Note for ...

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. A conversation broke out on Twitter last week. How do you make ...