Breakout Rooms Zoom Pre Assign
To pre assign participants that are external zoom users import a csv file.
Breakout rooms zoom pre assign. You can only pre assign students that will be logged into zoom umn edu and authenticated their zoom account. Click meetings and schedule a meeting. Use a csv file to pre assign your attendees to breakout rooms it s recommended that hosts of meetings with large numbers of attendees use a csv file to assign breakout rooms. Sign in to the zoom web portal.
Up to 200 participants can be pre assigned to breakout rooms. After the rooms are created you ll see a join option right adjacent to the name of the meeting room. You have two options for pre assigning meeting participants to breakout rooms that will be visible when you select this option. This guide assumes that you have activated the zoom tool in your canvas course and have already created at least one meeting that you wish to pre assign breakout rooms to.
Use zoom s sample csv file as a guide. Select the number of rooms you would like to create and how you would like to assign your participants to those. Pre assigned breakout rooms have a participant limit be aware that pre assigned breakout rooms are limited to 200 participants. Easier options are to not use breakout rooms or to use randomly assigned breakout rooms video demonstration 3 28.
If a verification dialog displays choose turn on to verify the change. Pre assigned breakout rooms is an advanced usage of zoom. If the setting is disabled click the toggle to enable it. In the meeting options section select breakout room pre assign and click create rooms.
Start an instant or scheduled meeting. You can use the create rooms option to directly assign users to the breakout rooms via the zoom website s interface or you can use the import from csv command to upload a specifically formatted csv file to the site. Pre assign breakout room via the web portal. Pre assign breakout rooms through web portal.
If you have registration enabled and external participants register for the meeting you need to assign them to breakout rooms during the meeting. Breakout rooms can also be assigned through the web portal. I have been trying to get the pre assign feature to work correctly with a group of 80 attendees but only a handful of them end up pre assigned after i upload the csv file and then start the meeting. Navigate to the breakout room option on the meeting tab and verify that the setting is enabled.
However you ll have the option of directly inviting internal zoom users users who are in. Follow this section if you re using the zoom web client. While you can create your meetings using the zoom tool. You can also pre assign participants to breakout rooms when you schedule the meeting instead of managing them during the meeting.
Click the plus icon beside rooms to add breakout rooms. They are using their zoom email to register for the meeting since i specified to do so. Being able to setup breakout rooms and assign your students to the them in advance makes using breakout rooms easier. Click on it to enter a breakout room.