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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.

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  • Coty commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We need this! Quick maneuvering between meetings is crucial to how we operate. Sub-conferences combined with everything else Teams has to offer would be a powerful tool for our department.

  • Phil Maynard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is really needed. We're loosing larger group meetings to Zoom at the moment due to the lack of breakout options...

  • Ian Caldwell commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We are still using Adobe Connect and Zoom to support break-out rooms. Feature parity is a great idea!

  • Ian Caldwell commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Our company is still using Adobe Connect and Zoom for break-out rooms. The same feature in Teams would be great.

  • Sarah commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please! I was searching to see if it's possible and found your suggestion here. Thank you for sharing it.

  • Ian Prinsloo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am a user of zoom and really enjoy the ability to create breakout rooms during calls. Helps to battle the talking at feeling of video calls

  • Dan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If microsoft would do this, it would bring a new level of competition to Brightspace, Blackboard, and others in the higher ed. market. Along with breakout rooms, be sure to add features like a timer so folks know when the breakout is 'over' and that they will be returned to the main area.

  • Steve Humphrey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a needed function to bring virtual experiences closer to a live experiences. Large group presentations interlaced with small group breakout discussion is one way to do this. It is the reason we are evaluating alternative platforms to Skype and Teams. Would rather stay with Microsoft

  • Karen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes! We are new to O365 and have been conducting training sessions using virtual break out rooms for years! We currently use Adobe Connects but would love to have this integrated with TEAMS!

  • Nigel Jones commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Although these are tempoary teams there are another request for teams within teams. MS teams should reflect how teams/groups work in the real world.....sub teams/groups.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We would love to be able to use breakout rooms so that we can run some of our internal training programmes digitally. At Three Teams is one of our most used tools and this is one feature that we feel is missing and prevents us from using Teams for this purpose.
    Thanks

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This ability to breakout into separate but connected sessions is key to virtual Seminars and Training. WebEx, Zoom and Adobe have provided this for some time. When is it expected in MS Teams?

  • Rafal commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We are just evaluating Cisco vs Teams - it is the only feature (apart of pools, native whiteboard and other features they have not yet [or at all] migrated from Skype for Business) that prevents us from embracing it fully.

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