Introduce breakout room functionality
We have a business requirement for breakout rooms with live events. The idea is pretty simple - we plan to use live events to host internal staff training webinars and as part of that, at times we will ask for small groups of people (typically 4-5) to go away into a breakout room and come back to the group with their answer/idea.
We would like to see this functionality be introduced to Microsoft Teams for not only live events but also video calls. This would provide feature parity with pre-existing tools such as Zoom, WebEx and many more which would be a cost saving for us.
Features we would expect as part of breakout rooms would be as follows:
- Option to assign users to a specific room
- Option to random assign users to a specific room
- Presenters/producers can switch between rooms
- Breakout rooms have a time limit for how long they last before everyone being bought back to the group
- The ability to appoint a moderator of a breakout room
- The ability to record each and every room separately (This is a dream ask)
Happy to provide more detail as required.
Aaron Hatton
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Thank you for your continued feedback. The feature team is actively working on this highly requested feature. We are testing the first release that will have the ability for meeting hosts to create breakout rooms, assign the users to the rooms and call them back to the main room. Please see our roadmap for current status here: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Microsoft%20Teams&searchterms=65332.
1066 comments
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Anonymous
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Yep. Clients are starting to leave Teams for Zoom & Webex. Teams is still a useful tool for collaboration - but the Meeting experience is pushing people away to other platforms.
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Anonymous
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Will be a god feature
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Anonymous
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When......when......when.....will this feature be released!!! Constant shifting of release dates is infuriating.
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Anonymous
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El último wrokshop que hice le pasado 26 de Noviembre fue un total desastre por no tener esta funcionalidad. Es INDISPENSABLE para poder hacer una buena reunión.
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Anonymous
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Even Webex has this feature now. While waiting to release this feature, MS has been eclipsed by Webex, which is saying something if Cisco can develop, test and release this faster.
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Anonymous
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Why is this feature getting pushed back? First we were told 'Coming this fall' which I presume means Autumn 2020. Then it was October, then November and now December. How many more times will it be delayed?
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René
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We'll have to host an event with the use of breakout rooms in the beginning of January. Need to know the ETA of this functionality to be able to create content on forehand.
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Oliver
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Does a User needs to have a Team or are breakout rooms also available in Teams Meeting "only"? Like if I use the Outlook Add-in to schedule a meeting.
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Anonymous
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hope to get an update!
Workshop on december 1st would really benefit from this! -
Anonymous
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This really needs to be resolved quickly, the pressure from users to introduce Zoom until this is released is overwhelmin, my fear is if we release Zoom there will be no going back.
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Anonymous
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You have no idea how hard it is pushing back users who are pressuring to use Zoom over Teams solely because Breakout Rooms keeps being pushed back, October to November now December.
I'm lucky I have an advanced copy and it works a treat. Please push it out early to protect me from the bread of Zoom.......
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Anonymous
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Please can we have an update on Breakout rooms - what is coming and when. So many staff are wanting to use it.
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[Deleted User]
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Thanks for working on this. This will be much appreciated by our organization.
It's better to wait for a stable feature rather than start complaining about a rushed and unstable one.
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Anonymous
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Disappointing lack of transparency here as the rollout has slipped from October to November and now to December. Obviously something that is of critical importance to many and it would be good to hear from the product team as to why this has happened and a realistic idea of when this will be available.
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Elizabeth Barclay
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Any date for release to the Canadian market yet?
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Daija
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please allow presenters to move between rooms, currently presenters have to be placed in a room if there is more than one presenter
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Max T. Jensen
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Too late. Zoom won the trust and place in my organisation :(
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Anonymous
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We decided to keep using Teams for our classes as the promised this feature would be available the semester. It is not and that is disturbing
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Anonymous
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Hello,
This is sadly a reason why MS continues to fall behind. All of your competitors have this feature. It is long overdue. I hope that you can rectify this as it is a great feature and would add so much to the experience of Teams. -
Terezia Kovacs
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When can we expect to make this happen considering that the original post is more than 2 years old?