Create Breakout Rooms in Google Meet

Breakout Rooms are now accessible in Google Meet. The information below will assist you with navigating the Breakout Room features.
- Moderators can use breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller groups during video calls.
- Moderators must start the breakout rooms during a video call on a computer.
- Anyone who schedules or starts a meeting will be the moderator. There can only be one moderator per meeting. If you transfer or schedule a meeting on someone else’s calendar, the other person might become the moderator.
- Breakout rooms currently can’t be live streamed or recorded.
- Participants must be signed in to their Google Accounts and can join from a computer or from the mobile Meet app
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- If participants aren’t signed in to their Google Accounts or dial in to a video call from their phone, their names will appear under “Cannot be assigned,” and they can’t be assigned to a breakout room.
Creating Breakout Rooms
- On your computer, start a video call. In the top right, click Activities
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- Select Breakout rooms.
- In the Breakout rooms panel, choose the number of breakout rooms. (You can create up to 100 breakout rooms in a call. )
- Participants in the Meet will be randomly and equally distributed across the Breakout rooms.
- To manually move people into different rooms, you can either:
- Enter the participant’s name.
- Click the participant’s name. Hold down the mouse, drag the name, and then drop it into another breakout room.
- To randomly mix up the groups again, click Shuffle
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- To manually move people into different rooms, you can either:
- In the bottom right, click Create.
Tip: To redo the breakout rooms and put all participants back in the Main room, click Clear .
Edit, Join, or Leave Breakout Rooms
Once you’ve created breakout rooms, you can make changes to the rooms or join each breakout room to monitor and participate in discussions.
Note:Moderators won’t see chat messages that were exchanged between participants before they join or after they leave a breakout room.
- To make changes to the participant groups or number of breakout rooms, click Edit breakout rooms
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- Once you’ve made your changes, click Save.
- To join an individual breakout room, next to the breakout room number, click Join.
- To leave all breakout rooms and return to the Main room, next to the current breakout room, click Leave.
End Breakout Rooms
- In the Breakout rooms panel, at the top right, click End breakout rooms
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- Click End breakout rooms.
For Video Call Participants
Join a Breakout Room
Your moderator will create breakout rooms and invite you to join one. Your moderator can join each breakout room at any time during the video call.
- On a computer or mobile device, sign in to your Google Account.
- Join a video call from your computer or the Meet mobile app.
- When the teacher invites students to join a breakout room, they see a prompt on the screen. Click Join.
- Tip: If you click “Cancel,” you’ll remain in the Main room.
- At the top, next to “Invited to Breakout #,” click Join.
- Once you’re in a breakout room, you can speak to or send chat messages to other participants.
Tip: If your moderator moves you to another breakout room, you’ll see a new prompt on your screen. To switch rooms, click Join.
Return to the Main Room
During a video call, you can choose to leave a breakout room and return to the video call’s main room.
- On a computer: At the top, click Return to main room.
- On a mobile device: At the top, Tap to return to main room.
When your moderator ends all of the breakout rooms, you’ll see a prompt that you’re returning to the main room. Click Return.