The MS Teams host may have the class divided into groups. MS Teams meeting will allow breakout rooms to host these groups. The instructor will assign the participants into the breakout rooms as you entered the MS Teams meeting session. The MS Teams host may add you into a breakout room after the meeting starts. Each breakout room participants have full audio, video and screen share capabilities.

The breakout rooms could be available for a limited time that is set by the Zoom host.

The host can broadcast a message to all breakout rooms to share information with all participants.

Start the rooms. All participants will be moved to their respective rooms after confirming the prompt to join the breakout room. The host will be left in the main meeting until manually joining one of the rooms. The participants (and the host when manually joining a room) will see the following message shown when joining the breakout room.

Get Started with Breakout Rooms in Canvas

Breakout Rooms can be enable in the meeting an instructor is currently running. There is a setting within the actual MS Teams application on your computer/desktop (this feature is not accessible through the Canvas integration) to set up breakout rooms prior to starting a meeting. This is a setting you can use to automatically or manually set-up breakout rooms before a meeting occurs; however, you can complete these same tasks while within the meeting as well.

Steps to Start a Breakout Room Before a Meeting:

Go to the MS Teams computer/desktop application. Do NOT use the Canvas MS Teams integration for you will not see the same interface.
In MS Teams, click on the Calendar tab on the left-hand menu bar. Find the respective meeting you want to add breakout rooms. Click on the meeting and select edit or double click on the meeting.
In the top menu bar, click on the "Breakout rooms" tab.
In the middle of the interface, click "Create Breakout Rooms" and select how many rooms you want to make.
After making rooms, you can Assign participants to rooms or have them automatically be assigned.
To edit the room settings and or names of the rooms, go to the desired room tile and click the three dots in the corner to make the necessary edits.
The setting in the top right hand corner of the interface allows users to add another room, delete all rooms, and adjust all settings for all rooms associated with the breakout.

Steps to Start a Breakout Room During a Meeting:

Once in an active meeting, the MS Teams host or instructor will click on the 'Rooms' button located on the top banner or options.
After click that button, a side menu bar will pop out to create breakout rooms.
1. The first drop down menu is an option of how many rooms does the instructor want to make. The number ranges 1 - 50 rooms that could be created.
2. Next, an instructor can have MS Teams automatically assign people to rooms or the instructor can manually assign people to rooms.
After automatically or manually assigning groups, a right side menu will pop out to adjust settings for the breakout rooms.
1. Assign Participants: this button allows instructors to assign students to certain breakout rooms
2. Add: will add more breakout rooms to the list
3. Announcements: this button allows the instructor to make announcements when students are in breakout rooms
4. Delete: this button will delete the breakout room session entirely
5. Settings: here you will adjust how long the breakout room session will last and other setting features with the breakout rooms
6. Room Options: to change breakout room names, use the three dots to the right of the room name to change the names accordingly
7. Open: once students have populated the MS Teams meeting, the "Open" button will activate. Clicking this button will begin the breakout room session