How To Create Breakout Rooms In Zoom As Co Host

Sign in to the zoom web portal as an administrator with the privilege to edit account settings.

How to create breakout rooms in zoom as co host. Open up the zoom application on your mac or pc and log in. From the options menu at the bottom place a check next to allow participants to return to the main session at any time. Click leave room to return to the main session. Next to the breakout room you choose click join and confirm by clicking join again. Navigate to the breakout room option on the meeting tab and verify that the setting is enabled.

However a co host can t start meetings scheduled by the host. If you would like to have your co host s join breakout rooms to assist participants in those rooms you can assign them to a room and then use the options menu to allow your co hosts to return to the main meeting so you can assign them to the next breakout room. Host controls allow you as the host to control various aspects of a zoom meeting such as managing the participants. The co host has the same in meeting controls as the host. Select either new meeting or schedule to schedule an upcoming meeting.

Hover over the default breakout room name and click the pencil icon to rename it. Choose which participants you would like in each room. To enable the breakout room feature for all members of your organization. Navigate back to the breakout rooms window. Next assign the co host to a particular breakout room.

You must first designate them as a co host scroll down to using co host in a meeting to enable your colleague to move between breakouts on their own. In the navigation menu click account management then account settings. Add a co host in a zoom meeting. When the meeting starts click breakout rooms at the bottom of the screen. Your rooms will be created but will not start automatically.

The co host feature allows the host to share hosting privileges with another user allowing the co host to manage the administrative side of the meeting such as managing participants or starting stopping the recording. With this enabled the host can now assign a co host to a meeting. Only the host may create and assign members to breakout rooms and you can create rooms any time you like such as when the meeting first starts or at any time during a meeting. Using the zoom program on your computer create a new meeting. Select breakout rooms from the zoom toolbar.