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Managing pre-Assigned Zoom Breakout Rooms

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Students must log into their Teachers College Zoom account. Guests will not be placed in their preassigned breakout rooms automatically.If you have participants with (guest) after their name, ask them to leave and login to Zoom to return to the meeting.

1. Click on Breakout Room button to open the Breakout room list.

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2. At the top of the pop-up window, the Breakout rooms status will show that the breakout rooms have not started. The pre-assigned rooms will appear with the participant assignments. Click Options.

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3. Check Automatically move all assigned participants into breakout rooms.

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4. Click Recreate.

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5. Click Assign automatically. Then, click Recreate.

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6. Click the Open All Rooms.

Anyone logged in as a guest or logged in after you recreate the rooms will need to be manually assigned to a room.

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7. The breakout room status will change to In Progress.

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8. (Optional) If you would like to join one of the breakout sessions, click Join.

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9. To end close the breakout rooms and return to the main meeting, click Close all rooms. Then, confirm you want to close the rooms.

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