Pre-assigned breakout rooms will only work if applied to all meetings in the recurrence. If you are editing a recurring meeting, you must select All when asked if you want to edit a single occurrence or all meetings in the occurrence. Select Meetings from the menu on the left, then Schedule a New Meeting, OR select an existing meeting to Edit. This option works best if you have more than 10-15 people to assign to breakout rooms, or if you will be assigning the same group of people to rooms repeatedly. When you start your meeting and select Breakout Rooms, all you’ll have to do is select Open All Rooms. When you are finished creating your Breakout Rooms, select Save. You can move them to another room or remove them entirely. If you add someone to the wrong room or if you enter the wrong name, hover over their name in the Breakout Room assignment. You must enter addresses one at a time using this method. Type the next email address, or select a different room and then type the email address. Hit Enter on your keyboard to add the email address to the Room.

Select a Room and type an email address into the field.

Select Create Rooms to open the Breakout Room Assignment window. If you have Five College students, use the Five College option). Check the box for Require authentication to join (Zoom or Smith login required recommended. If you have more than 10-15 people to assign, or if you will be assigning a group regularly, we recommend using Option Two below. This method works best if you are only assigning a few people to breakout rooms. Option One: Pre-Assign Using Zoom Web Portal

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