Use breakout rooms to break participants into small groups during the meetings. You can open and close rooms more than once during a session or move participants between rooms. Only meeting organizers can create and manage Breakout Rooms.

• Open a web browser and go to teams.microsoft.com. If necessary, log in with your Florida Poly username and password.

• update to the latest version of Microsoft Teams if necessary from this link Teams for Education desktop app.

• Join your meeting at its scheduled time and wait for your participants to join. Your meeting will open in its own window.

• Click Breakout rooms from your meeting controls.

Open

• Follow the on-screen prompt, choose how many rooms you would like to create from the dropdown.

• Choose whether you want Teams to assign students to rooms Automatically or Manually if you'd prefer to assign students to rooms yourself.

• Click Create Rooms.

Open

• The rooms will be created with a Closed status.

• Add participants to the breakout room to change the status to open.

Teams - How to manually assign participants to rooms