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You can only do this once you’ve started your first meeting. In the first release* you can’t pre-configure your breakout rooms and who’s going to go in them. Have an idea ‘up front’ who you want to be in each team

There’s a good ‘blow by blow’ description of how to use breakout rooms here, but before you get going, here’s just a few tips to bear in mind based on my work with breakout rooms so far: A few top tips 1. Up to 50 virtual rooms can be created – which sounds exhausting.Īt the end of the allotted time (you can set a countdown timer and send a ‘5 minutes left’ message), the organiser can also close the virtual rooms and ‘pull’ everyone back into the main room.

Once the breakout rooms are started, the organiser (or tutor) can virtually leap from room to room to check in on progress and provide assistance (delegates have the ability to get their ‘tutors’ attention via private chat or specifically requesting them to join). Now rolled out, this Teams feature is designed to support exactly the scenario where you need to split out and reconvene a training session (and many other scenarios, such as team building and brainstorming) using virtual breakout rooms. Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms to the rescue! Whilst it is possible to ‘fudge it’ using Teams channels, it isn’t ideal and takes a lot of preparation as you will see in this Microsoft article. Recently I helped a law firm convert some ‘in-person’ course work into an ‘eLearning format’ hosted on Microsoft Teams, but I came a bit unstuck at the part where course delegates needed to split into smaller groups to work through an example case. The technology we have available in platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams video conferencing makes the delivery of content relatively easy.Īnd, let’s face it, video conferencing removes many of the costs and logistical headaches normally associated with getting a bunch of delegates together: There’s no hotels and travel to book, no catering, no social outings or icebreakers to orchestrate…

Learning Management Systems Tips for working with breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams Are you, like many organisations, looking at how you can replace your previously ‘in person’ training with an on-line service?