Breakout Rooms

Whether your meetings require more moderation or a virtual classroom, CISCO has made teaching and training easier by adding video breakout sessions.

Breakout sessions are smaller groups that are split off from the main Webex meeting. They allow a subset of meeting participants to collaborate and share ideas over audio and video. Use breakout sessions for workshops, classrooms, or for when you need a moment to talk privately with a few participants, outside of the main meeting.

Roles in a Breakout Session

Hosts and cohosts create breakout sessions, assign participants and then, when they're ready, start the sessions. Attendees can share content and use collaboration tools such as Chat, to collaborate in smaller, more focused discussion groups.

Audio and Video in Breakout Sessions

Each breakout session is a separate audio and video conference. If you connected to audio when you joined the meeting, it switches over automatically when you join a breakout session. You can mute or unmute your audio and start or stop your video at any time during the breakout session, just like you would in the main session.

When all breakout sessions end, your audio switches to the main meeting automatically. If your video is on during the breakout session, it remains on when all breakout sessions end and you return to the main meeting.

Create Breakout Sessions

Enable Breakouts Before and During Meetings

You can add breakouts when scheduling a meeting via the Show advanced options drop down. The setting is found in Scheduling options.

For ad-hoc breakouts during a meeting select the Breakout drop down from the top menu on your meeting widow.

Join Sessions to Assist Others

Broadcast a Message

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