1. Click on "Breakout Rooms" in the tool bar at the bottom of the screen:
   Notice: Only the Host can create Breakout Rooms. Both Host and Co-host can open Breakout Rooms.

2. Select the number of rooms you wish to create and how you wish to assign participants to those rooms:

• Automatically: Let Zoom assign participants equally to the rooms.
• Manually: Choose which participants you want in each room
   

3. Click on "Create"
4. Your rooms will be created but will not open automatically.

Notice: Before opening the Breakout Rooms, you are able to do adjustments such as: Change name of the rooms, ad new rooms and/or delete rooms and add new participants. 

It also worth checking out the number of options for your Breakout Rooms which you can find under settings (on Windows it says "Option" and on Mach it is the gear symbol). 

If a participant enters the meeting after grouping has taken place, or loses network connection and returns, he or she may be re-assigned to a Breakout Room by the Host.

The Host will find unassigned participants in the overview of Breakout Rooms:

Go to the overview of Breakout Rooms and click on "Add a Room".
Then you may either assign unassigned participants and move or exchange participants who are already assigned to other rooms:

• Move to (participant): Select a room that you want to move the participant to:
  
• Exchange (participant): Select a participant in another room with whom you wish to exchange the selected partner.
  

 Start by opening the Breakout rooms, then click on "Share Screen". Click thereafter on the option "Share to Breakout Rooms". 

Note: If the presentation you are going to share has sound, you must also tick "Share Sound". Your screen will then be displayed both in the main room and in all the Breakout Rooms. 

If the participants in the Breakout Rooms are sharing the screen, it will stop when the Host/Co-host starts sharing screen. 

Tutorial video: 

 Host or Co-host can send written and verbal messages to all group rooms to share information with the participants. 

When you open the Breakout Rooms, the "Broadcast" button appears. Clicking on it will give you two choices: 

Broadcast Message: The message you write appears in all the Breakout rooms. 
Note: There is a 140 character limit, so keep it short. 
 

Broadcast voice: You can talk to everyone in the Breakout rooms. 

The participants in the Breakout rooms can invite the Host to their room: 

And the Host will get the following message: 

Host can choose whether to join the Breakout room, join later or ignore the message. 

Only Host and Co/host can assign participants to Breakout Rooms. 

Users who joins the Zoom meeting from the Zoom Mobile App can join a Breakout Room, but cannot host them as Host/Co-host. 

Host can shoose whether the Co-host(s) should stay in the main room or if they should be sent along with the participants to the Breakout Rooms. 

Notice: The choice appears when both Host and Co-host are in the Zoom Meeting. 

• You can create up to 100 Breakout Rooms. Maximum number of participants in a regular meeting is 300 participants, while for larger meetings it is 500 participants. All USN employees and students have license for regular meeting. If you are in need of hosting a larger meeting, please contact edu@usn.no. 
• You can choose between an even or uneven distribution of participants in the Breakout Rooms. Example given: You can create two Breakout Rooms and have 100 participants in one room and 2 participants in the other, or you can create two Breakout Rooms with 51 participants in each room.