Click meetings and schedule a meeting.
Pre assign breakout rooms zoom.
To ensure that students are entered into their pre assigned rooms students will need to authenticate before entering into a meeting by signing into their tc zoom.
Click the plus icon beside rooms to add breakout rooms.
If the setting is disabled click the toggle to enable it.
In the meeting options section select breakout room pre assign and click create rooms.
Start an instant or scheduled meeting.
To be able to pre assign breakout rooms in scheduled meetings you need to enable the option for the same on zoom us account setting page.
Pre assigning participants to breakout rooms using the web portal.
You can also pre assign participants to breakout rooms when you schedule the meeting instead of managing them during the meeting.
Being able to setup breakout rooms and assign your students to the them in advance makes using breakout rooms easier.
Use zoom s sample csv file as a guide.
This guide assumes that you have activated the zoom tool in your canvas course and have already created at least one meeting that you wish to pre assign breakout rooms to.
I have been trying to get the pre assign feature to work correctly with a group of 80 attendees but only a handful of them end up pre assigned after i upload the csv file and then start the meeting.
Breakout rooms can also be assigned through the web portal.
Use a csv file to pre assign your attendees to breakout rooms it s recommended that hosts of meetings with large numbers of attendees use a csv file to assign breakout rooms.
Sign in to the zoom web portal.
If a verification dialog displays choose turn on to verify the change.
However you ll have the option of directly inviting internal zoom users users who are in.
Select the number of rooms you would like to create and how you would like to assign your participants to those.
Pre assign breakout rooms through web portal.
Pre assign breakout rooms troubleshooting.
Click on it to enter a breakout room.
Follow this section if you re using the zoom web client.
You can use the create rooms option to directly assign users to the breakout rooms via the zoom website s interface or you can use the import from csv command to upload a specifically formatted csv file to the site.
You should pre assign students to their breakout rooms using their tc email address ending in uni tc columbia edu.
They are using their zoom email to register for the meeting since i specified to do so.
Click on the option below the breakout room row that says allow the host to assign participants to breakout rooms while scheduling.
Navigate to the breakout room option on the meeting tab and verify that the setting is enabled.
Pre assigned breakout rooms have a participant limit be aware that pre assigned breakout rooms are limited to 200 participants.
Optional click the checkbox to allow meeting hosts to pre assign participants to breakout rooms.
While you can create your meetings using the zoom tool.
