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How to use Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams meetings

Mike Tholfsen

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How to use Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams meetings

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2020Dec 9

A step-by-step tutorial on how to use the new Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams meetings. Use Teams Breakout Rooms to partition and organize your meetings more effectively. Learn how to create, rename, join, start and close Breakout Rooms in Teams plus lots more. I show the Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms experience from both the organizer side and the attendee perspective. 📌 NOTE: Breakout Rooms are rolling out globally now. It might take a few days or weeks depending on where you are. 🔗 More details and FAQ on Teams Breakout Rooms: http://aka.ms/BreakoutroomsTeamsblog 🔗 Support article for Teams Breakout Rooms for Education: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/o... 🔗 Be sure the new Teams Meetings experience is enabled: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t... Some additional notes: ✅ For the new Breakout Rooms in Teams, only Microsoft Teams Desktop and Mac lets you create them. ✅ This will work for all meetings type in Microsoft Teams, including Channel meetings and recurring meetings. ✅ The organizer sets up the MS Teams Breakout Rooms, and then assigns the attendees. The meeting organizer can start a breakout room on the desktop client only. ✅ The meetings start and attendees get all of the Teams meetings features like Together mode, Whiteboard, Live Captions, and more. ⏩ Coming Soon: the ability to set a timer on your Breakout Rooms in Teams 📝 Table of Contents 0:00 Introduction 0:27 Create the Breakout Rooms 1:15 Rename the Breakout Rooms 1:35 Move People between Breakout Rooms 2:34 Start the Breakout Rooms 3:47 See the attendee view of the Breakout Rooms 4:51 Organizer visits a Breakout Room 5:32 Close the Breakout Rooms 7:43 Gather up all the materials form the Breakout Rooms For a Microsoft Teams tutorial and lots of tips and tricks, check out my Teams quick tip video playlists: 📺 All Microsoft Teams tips playlist: • Microsoft Teams quick tip videos 📺 Teams meetings tutorial playlist: • Microsoft Teams meetings 📺 Teams Assignments tutorial playlist: • Microsoft Teams Assignments quick tip... I am always creating more quick tip Microsoft Teams teacher tutorials, so let me know in the comments about other features you'd like to see videos for. 🔔 Subscribe to my Channel: https://aka.ms/MikeYouTubeSubscribe 📢 Connect with me on Social: Twitter: / mtholfsen LinkedIn: / miketholfsen Instagram: / mtholfsen Pinterest: / miketholfsen TikTok: / mtholfsen Wakelet: https://www.wakelet.com/@mtholfsen *Distance Learning Resources: Microsoft EDU Remote site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/educa... Teams EDU Quick Start Guide: https://aka.ms/TeamsEDUQuickGuide Webinar series: https://aka.ms/RemoteLearningPlaylist Resource, training and tips collection: https://aka.ms/RemoteLearningWakelet #MicrosoftTeams #MSTeams #MicrosoftEDU

Introduction

0:00

Create the Breakout Rooms

0:27

Rename the Breakout Rooms

1:15

Move People between Breakout Rooms

1:35

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Mike Tholfsen

155K subscribers

Microsoft Teams meetings

by Mike Tholfsen

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Microsoft Teams quick tip videos

by Mike Tholfsen

How to use Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams meetings

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Introduction

Introduction

Introduction

Create the Breakout Rooms

Create the Breakout Rooms

Create the Breakout Rooms

Rename the Breakout Rooms

Rename the Breakout Rooms

Rename the Breakout Rooms

Move People between Breakout Rooms

Move People between Breakout Rooms

Move People between Breakout Rooms

Start the Breakout Rooms

Start the Breakout Rooms

Start the Breakout Rooms

See the attendee view of the Breakout Rooms

See the attendee view of the Breakout Rooms

See the attendee view of the Breakout Rooms

Organizer visits a Breakout Room

Organizer visits a Breakout Room

Organizer visits a Breakout Room

Close the Breakout Rooms

Close the Breakout Rooms

Close the Breakout Rooms

Mike Tholfsen

How to use Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams meetings

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Chapters

Introduction

Introduction

Introduction

Create the Breakout Rooms

Create the Breakout Rooms

Create the Breakout Rooms

Rename the Breakout Rooms

Rename the Breakout Rooms

Rename the Breakout Rooms

Move People between Breakout Rooms

Move People between Breakout Rooms

Move People between Breakout Rooms

Start the Breakout Rooms

Start the Breakout Rooms

Start the Breakout Rooms

See the attendee view of the Breakout Rooms

See the attendee view of the Breakout Rooms

See the attendee view of the Breakout Rooms

Organizer visits a Breakout Room

Organizer visits a Breakout Room

Organizer visits a Breakout Room

Close the Breakout Rooms

Close the Breakout Rooms

Close the Breakout Rooms

Gather up all the materials form the Breakout Rooms

Gather up all the materials form the Breakout Rooms

Gather up all the materials form the Breakout Rooms

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Introduction

Introduction

Introduction

Create the Breakout Rooms

Create the Breakout Rooms

Create the Breakout Rooms

Rename the Breakout Rooms

Rename the Breakout Rooms

Rename the Breakout Rooms

Move People between Breakout Rooms

Move People between Breakout Rooms

Move People between Breakout Rooms

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