How to create Breakouts Rooms

How to move between Breakout Rooms

Breakout Rooms are a great way to separate students for more focused learning. To create a breakout room, select “View Boards” on the left-hand side of your Space.

Above your Board search bar, you’ll see that you’re currently in the “Main Room”. Beside the room title, select “Manage breakout rooms”.

You’ll then be taken to your breakout room management page. Here you’ll be able to create new rooms and assign students to them. This can be done before you begin your tutoring session, or while in the tutoring session. It’s important to note that in order to assign students to breakout rooms, they have to already be invited to the Space/have access to the Space. To learn more about how to invite students to your Space, please read the following article: How to Invite People to your Session.

Navigate to the top right corner of your breakout room management page and click “Manage” to start making changes to your breakout rooms.

To create a new breakout room, click “+ New Room” at the top right-hand side of your screen, or select the box beside the Main Room that says “Create New Room”.

Create the number of breakout rooms necessary for your class size and teaching style. From there, you can drag and drop participants into their breakout rooms.

Breakout rooms will automatically be named after the number of rooms created. For example, the first breakout room you create will be named Room 2 because this is the second room in your Space. You can rename or delete your breakout rooms by clicking the three dots beside the current name of your breakout room and selecting “Rename” or “Delete”.

Once you’re satisfied with the changes you’ve made, click “Apply” to enable the changes you’ve made.

If you’ve assigned students to breakout rooms and they’re already in the Space, they’ll automatically be sent to their breakout room. If students have yet to join the Space, when they do, they will automatically be sent to their breakout rooms without joining the main room.

These changes are not permanent. You can always bring your students back to the main room by following the same process.

As the host, you have the ability to hop back and forth between breakout rooms by returning to the breakout room management page at any time and selecting “Join” beside the breakout room you’d like to enter.

You can always move to another breakout room or rejoin the Main Room by returning back to the breakout room management page.

If you have any further questions, our support team is always happy to help.