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Prepare meeting breakout rooms

As a creator of a meeting I want to prepare my breakout rooms before the meeting gets started. So i already assigned people to rooms before the meeting is going to start.

When the meeting is in progress i Only need to open the rooms.

Next to that you want to send documents directly from the main room to the breakout rooms

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  • Ann Dorit Schónemann commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    That would indeed help a lot if you could prepare the rooms in advance or chose to keep the rooms from the last meeting (2 features).

    I also have a couple of more questions:

    A) Can you switch a person from room to room? How?

    B) If you upload a document in the chat, you can only do this once. The second time you get questions about it. I often upload small documents in the rooms but when I have 12 rooms it becomes tenious to do.

    Thank you in beforehand for your information.

    Kind regards
    Ann Dorit Schónemann

  • DBaggett commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Also provide the ability to pre-create multiple sessions of breakouts within one meeting.

  • Sharon Soh commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please! This is so so needed because it will shorten the amount of time that is spent just assigning groups when everyone is already present for the meeting/training. Very necessary.

  • Alex Braden commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I can't tell you how many of my teachers have asked for this, or worse, have not used Teams in favor of "the other guy" because it does have this ability.

  • marie kennedy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The ability to prepare breakout rooms prior to the meeting would greatly enhance the experience in some scenarios.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, we need to be able to prepare breakout rooms prior. We would do not be able to set them up once we are in session.

    The intention is that we would use them for hearings and when we need to adjourn, we would explain to each party that we will place them in a breakout room and bring them back when we are ready to continue.

  • Peter McDermott commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would also be helpful if facilitators could enter breakout rooms early to set up files, Forms, and Whiteboard.

  • Hanneke commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Being able to prepare my breakout rooms is essential for my lessons. It takes a lot of time to assign pupils once the class has started, they are waisting minutes waiting. Please add this feature!

  • Joe A. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Very critical to allow organizer to effectively run meetings with little or no downtime.

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