Google Meet Breakout Rooms
The District has enabled Breakout Rooms in Google Meet. They are great for small group work. You will have to add the app to your Chrome account. Here is the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-breakout-room/kogfdlbehkaeoafmgaecphlnhohpabig?hl=en-US
Moderators can use breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller groups during video calls. Breakout rooms must be started by moderators during a video call on a computer. Breakout rooms currently can’t be live streamed or recorded.
Tip: Anyone who schedules or starts a meeting will be the moderator. There can only be one moderator per meeting. If you transfer or schedule a meeting on someone else's calendar, the other person could become the moderator.
For video call moderators
Create breakout rooms
On your computer, start a video call.
In the top right, click Activities Breakout rooms.
Tip: To prevent students from having the ability to create breakout rooms, admins should ensure meet creation privileges are reserved for faculty/staff organizational units only.
In the Breakout rooms panel, choose the number of breakout rooms. You can create up to 100 breakout rooms in a call.
Call participants are then distributed across the rooms. To manually move people into different rooms, you can:
Enter the participant’s name directly into a breakout room.
Click the participant’s name. Hold down the mouse, drag the name, and then drop it into another breakout room.
To randomly mix up the groups again, click Shuffle .
In the bottom right, click Open rooms.
Tip: A notification will show at the bottom of the screen when participants ask for help from the moderator. To join that participant's breakout room, click Join. To return to that question later, click Later. On the breakout room panel, an “Asked for help” banner shows above rooms that ask for help.
Edit, join, or leave breakout rooms
Once you’ve created breakout rooms, you can make changes to the rooms or join each breakout room to monitor and participate in discussions.
Tip: Moderators won't see chat messages that were exchanged between participants before they join or after they leave a breakout room.
To make changes to the participant groups or number of breakout rooms, click Edit breakout rooms . Once you’ve made your changes, click Save.
Tip: Before moving to a different room, participants must click Join.
To join an individual breakout room, next to the breakout room number, click Join.
To leave all breakout rooms and return to the main room, next to the current breakout room, click Leave.
End breakout rooms
In the Breakout rooms panel, at the top right, click Close rooms .
In the notification window that appears, click Close all rooms.
Important: Participants have 30 seconds to finish their breakout room discussion and will be asked to rejoin the main room. To bypass the 30 seconds and close all rooms immediately, on the breakout room panel, click Close rooms . Participants will have to click join to re-enter the main room even if you close all rooms immediately.
Remind Students:
Return to the main room
During a video call, you can choose to leave a breakout room and return to the video call’s main room.
On a computer: At the top, click Return to main room.
On a mobile device: At the top, tap to Return to main room.
When your moderator ends all of the breakout rooms, you’ll see a prompt that you’re returning to the main room. Click Return.
