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.
47 comments
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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.
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Andy
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Is there a way of assigning large numbers of people to a breakout room in advance without selecting each individual ? Eg We have 400 plus to split across 5 groups based on specific assignments not random
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Scott Thompson
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This was a basic function that Microsoft missed. Why in the world would the first implementation have the organizer doing all the work?
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Tarald
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This is needed to support un-conferences using Open Space Technology principles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology), and we use it a lot for community-of-practice meetups, training sessions and other workshops at work. I work as an Agile coach, and I know this functionality is desired many places.
Currently we use Webex Meetings because it supports this, but would like to move to MS Teams when it also handles this :)
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Anonymous
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This is becoming more important as we are faced with conducting "remote conferences" via Teams with Conference Tracks. I would like to have a main room, and then have breakout room for participants to choose to participate in -- without me or any admin needing to pre-assign people. Imagine attending Microsoft Ignite's virtual conference and after everyone joins the main bridge to hear a keynote from Satya, then you could communicate - here's a breakout room to hear speakers for the D365 Track, here's a breakout room for the MW track, and here's a breakout room to hear speakers on the Intelligent Cloud track. There's no way to preassign that many participants to breakout rooms. Rather, the participants will choose their breakout rooms on their own, and click to join the breakout room track that they want to. That's the exact functionality we need (perhaps on a smaller scale than Ignite however - 100 participants.)
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Anonymous
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The fact that this exists with Zoom but not in Teams is making User adoption of our platform very difficult. Please add it so I don't have to keep fighting an uphill battle!
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Anonymous
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Its currently a tedious task for organizers to pre-assign different breakout rooms to attendees, when there are large number of participants and especially they know, which breakout room to join and a choice would be fine for attendees to select themselves
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Anonymous
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This would also be a very usefull function for us in our Highschool. It takes a lot of work to sort 30 students, especially when they know in which group they have or want to be themselves.
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Damian
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Definitely a must-have feature in a teaching/school setting!
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Marcus Englund
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Excellent idea! Good for creating mini fairs with different topics. Also good for private social gatherings.
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Anonymous
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PLEASE DO THIS WE NEED THIS FUNCTIONALITY NOW!
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Michael
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We would like to see the ability for the organizer to allow facilitator or presenters to mange the breakout functionality as well. This is a great first step in building in the breakout room functionality though.
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PatriceF
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Hello,
That sure, It's really annoying that we could not change people from room on the fly, it's really static and not very collaborative. A mechanism to get out someone and reaffect him or a mechanism to move directely by himself from one room to another as described above will allow many teaching collaboratives practices.
Perhaps a way to let people jump and a way to only allow the admin to do that will be appreciated.
I'm sure you will be able to do it easily :)
Thx
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Naomi
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I'm also anxiously waiting for this option to be added. We're having many meetings where this would be ever so helpful.