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This can be time-consuming, so most appropriate in smaller classes.

Assign students manually to breakout rooms during a meeting.

Let Zoom a ssign students automatically (i.e., randomly) to breakout rooms during a meeting – appropriate for informal or ad hoc discussion groups during class, when you don’t care about who is talking with whom, such as think-pair-share or a brainstorming session.

Find detailed instructions for each in Zoom support article on managing breakout rooms. You have six options for creating breakout rooms. Note: you can always manually move a student into a different group, regardless of the initial assignment method chosen. Would it be useful to group quieter students together so that they are not drowned out by more vocal students? Do you want to re-use the same groupings from meeting to meeting? It is recommended that you put no fewer than 3 people in a room at a time putting just 2 in runs the risk of one of them having stepped away from the session, leaving the other alone in the room. Identify and practice the Breakout Room assignment strategy that will best fit your classroom and goal(s), and the steps for managing breakout rooms.

Provide an opportunity for work on collaborative projects.Ģ.

Provide an opportunity to discuss course content through simple reflection brainstorming and generating ideas to bring back to the larger group or working through a case study related to the day’s topic.

Provide a less intimidating environment for more reluctant students to speak out.

Foster a sense of community in a large class by allowing students time to get to know each other and network in small groups.

These articles (Fostering Deeper Discussion in Breakout Rooms and Tips to Increase Student Engagement in Zoom Breakout Rooms) discuss how using Zoom breakout rooms can be a powerful tool for online learning.

Determine your goal(s) for using Breakout Rooms. When teaching online and synchronously in Zoom, hosts and co-hosts can use the Breakout Room tool to split students into separate Zoom meeting spaces where they can talk and work together in small groups. Active learning in small groups is a great way to facilitate student engagement. Some types of active learning are far more effective and manageable in small groups: discussion, collaboration and problem-solving are just a few examples.