Google Meet - Break Out Rooms
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Break out rooms are now available in Google Meet. They are fairly easy to use, especially if you don't care who is in which room.
Click on the "Activities" icon.
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At this first screen, you can
choose how many rooms you want (participants divided evenly)
Re-shuffle the random arrangement
clear to start from scratch
drag and drop participants from one room to another
To initiate the breakout rooms, click the green "Create" button at the bottom of the screen.
Participants will get a pop-up box, inviting them to "Join" the assigned room
Once breakout rooms are underway, as the host you can:
wait in the main room where participants will come to upon leaving their breakout rooms (participants can pop on and out to ask questions if they wish)
you can click the "Join" button to participate in any specific breakout room
click the "Leave" button to leave a breakout room and return to the main room
The "Edit breakout rooms" will allow you to make changes to assignments, which will create new pop-ups inviting participants to change rooms
"End breakout rooms" which puts everyone back in the main room
Breakout rooms remain configured even after the "end" so that you can reuse the rooms multiple times during a meeting.
Meetings with more than 5 participants will also generate an attendance report like the one below that will be emailed to the meeting's host.
