Overview

Breakout rooms is a feature in Microsoft Teams that allows for organizers to divide the meeting into sub-groups for discussion and brainstorming sessions.

Considerations

• Only the meeting organizer can start breakout rooms.

• The “new meeting experience” must be enabled in Teams. See “Turning on the New Meeting Experience in Teams” here.

• Guests (those without a CSU Microsoft 365 account) are unable to join breakout rooms in the Teams desktop app and would need to use Teams through a web browser.

How to use Breakout Rooms in Teams

• The “new meeting experience” must be enabled in Teams. See “Turning on the New Meeting Experience in Teams” here.

• For detailed instructions on how to use breakout rooms, refer to Microsoft’s article “Create and manager breakout rooms during class meetings” .