Introducing Breakout Rooms in Meeting Room

Breakout Rooms make it easy to divide a meeting into smaller groups for focused discussions, activities, and collaboration, without leaving Meeting Room.

What’s New:

Create up to
100 breakout rooms
in a single meeting.
Assign
participants
automatically
or
manually
.
Allow participants to
choose
their
own rooms
.
Rename
rooms and update assignments before the breakout session begins.

Manage Breakout Sessions

Meeting hosts can:

Move participants
between rooms.
Join any
breakout
room
.
Broadcast
a message to every room at once.
Set
a session
timer
.
Extend
an active
session
.
Automatically return participants
to the main meeting when time expires.

Recordings and Transcripts

Recording and live transcription can be controlled separately for each breakout room.

Start
or
stop recording
in individual rooms.
Enable
or
disable
live
transcription
by room.
Quickly see
which
rooms
are currently
being recorded
or
transcribed
.

Participant Experience

Participants can:

Join their assigned room with one click or be moved automatically.
Select or switch rooms when the host allows it.
Receive countdown reminders before the breakout session ends.
Return seamlessly to the main meeting.

Built for Collaborative Sessions

Breakout Rooms are ideal for:

Training sessions and interactive workshops
Focused brainstorming and team discussions
Coaching programs and community conversations
Small-group activities and peer collaboration

Get Started

While hosting a Meeting Room, select Breakout Rooms from the meeting toolbar. Create the rooms, choose how participants should be assigned, and start the breakout session.