Self-selecting breakout rooms
Organizers can create different break out rooms for different discussion topics, and meeting attendees can choose which one to go to (maybe by selecting a button at the appropriate time in the meeting)? This would be very useful for teachers or meeting organizers who want to give attendees choices without needing to preassign attendees or trying to sort attendees into the appropriate groups once meetings have started. In our case, we had Back to School Night for parents, and parents had a hard time using the different links to go to the presentations they wanted to see (similar to the way they would have been able to choose a classroom to go to on our campus).
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Thank you for your feedback. The team is currently exploring options for this. We will share an update as soon as one is available.
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MHB
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That would be extremely helpful for students in seminars, to let them choose which topic, they would like to discuss in breakout rooms (the finction is already exist in Zoom)
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Jürgen Knuplesch
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Yes. I need it for Open Space Meetings. I cant send 200 people in less than 30 minutes to the dedicated rooms, they should go there them selves and even be able to change room.
If you dont implement it someone else will. But being all in with my company with Microsoft I cant change then. So please implement this super flexible feature.I believe Microsoft knows these days what an Open Space is? The old times are gone where only other companies did what is super ****.
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Florian Mücke
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This is really useful for virtual conferences and open space meetings. One central session for guidance and separate sessions with different topics. For now we used 9 independent sessions. Not so easy to pull everyone back to the main session on time
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Elizabeth San Miguel
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I use a lot the Zoom feature that allows students to choose the break out rooms themselves. This allows changing team sizes and compositions very fast. I need this feature in MS Teams - very badly. It would also be useful in staff meetings.
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Matt
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Yes, please! This would be sooooooooo helpful - thanks.
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MJeffW
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UpVote -- I need this feature next week!
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Steven
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UpVote please
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MIchael
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Any update on this request?
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brad-p
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I agree... this function is critical anytime your breakout rooms are going to be covering different topics.
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Markus
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Please hurry up to get this on your roadmap, it's one of the major missing features for full flexibility of breakout rooms. Zoom posted in Sept 2020 on this https://blog.zoom.us/using-zoom-breakout-rooms/
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Dwight Hargett
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As an organizer for a virtual conference, this feature is very desirable to me. It makes the logistics and flexibility of scheduling breakouts for larger groups much more manageable and also gives the virtual conference attendees more flexibility in deciding what breakout to participate in.
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matt
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Yep, definitely need this. It will be the reason we don't use Teams for webinars
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Elle
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This is such an important feature, alongwith the ability to assign breakout rooms in advance of the meeting. It's practically archaic at this point to have to manually assign every individual to a room as they enter the meeting while the meeting is already in progress. The additional burden on facilitators is impractical as you need someone specifically assigned to manage breakout rooms and nothing else for the first 30 odd minutes of a virtual forum, not to mention the frantic turnaround time if you need different groups in the second half of a meeting, and an additional messaging platform where facilitators can request to be moved between rooms. It really limits the ability of organisations to optimise the flow of a conference in Teams. I have a forum coming up with 150+ invitees - it's just impractical to have everyone contributing in one room, and impossible to effectively manage breakout rooms with that many participants.
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Anonymous
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I use this feature in Zoom all the time. Really useful for myriads of reasons (so much easier to tell 50 participants to self-organize than me moving them to the appropriate room).
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Geo
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As an Inhouse Consultant for Leadership Development and Change Management I regularly design and facilitate large group workshops and trainings. The option to let participants decide which break out group the attend would be extremely beneficial.
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Anonymous
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We would like to use the breakout room feature for our team breakouts during virtual SAFe PI Planning. But we need the ability for people to jump from room to room when they need to talk to other teams. Stakeholders who work with multiple teams also need that ability.
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Anonymous
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Any news regarding the pre assignment?
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Anonymous
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We managed an event of 100 attendees that turned quite difficult to manage and the experience wasn't satisfactory for attendees need to wait for more that 10 to be allocated. Need this feature ASAP please
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Valerie
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Any update on implementing this new functionality? Agree with all posts - allowing an attendee to select their own breakout room initially and switch to a different breakout room as desired is CRITICAL.
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Gav
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As a facilitator allowing people to select their own breakout room is essential. If i could i would not use Teams and would be using Zoom purely because of this.