How to use the new breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams

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Breakout rooms for Microsoft Teams are here! This video covers all the ins and outs of separating your big meeting into a bunch of mini meetings to support corporate events, classrooms, and more. We cover creating, joining, assigning, and closing breakout rooms as well as what features are on the horizon and what functionality currently isn't supported for both organizers and attendees.

Breakout rooms rolled out in December 2020, delayed twice from an initial rollout in October 2020. Further enhancements are planned. More info: jum.to/34YXdP4

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• Corresponding blog post: jum.to/breakoutrooms
• Teams UserVoice: microsoftteams.uservoice.com
• Getting on Targeted Release (for early access): jum.to/2G78NiO
• Breakout rooms session from Ignite 2020: youtu.be/cKp0QRORQfQ

Sections
0:00 Introduction
0:17 Background
2:16 Create breakout rooms
3:40 Rename a breakout room
4:06 Add a breakout room
4:14 Delete a breakout room
4:28 Set participants to be sent to rooms automatically (or not)
5:13 Open breakout rooms
5:39 Assign or switch participants between breakout rooms
5:58 Send an announcement to all breakout rooms
6:44 Join a breakout room as the organizer
7:08 Record a breakout room
7:43 What attendees CAN do in a breakout room
8:26 What attendees CANNOT do in a breakout room
8:53 After your breakout rooms
9:34 Using breakout rooms with guests and external attendees
9:53 What’s coming
11:16 Wrap up