How to create breakout rooms during meeting?

Here is a guide to follow for setting up break out rooms: Create breakout rooms -

You can automatically assign people to breakout rooms when you create them. If you want to move people around later in the meeting, you'll have to do so manually.

To create breakout rooms, you must be a meeting organizer or presenter who's been appointed a breakout rooms manager.

Create breakout rooms before the meeting

Organizers or presenters must first join the meeting to create or manage breakout rooms.

Go to your Teams calendar and open the meeting invite.

Go to Breakout rooms and select Create rooms.

Choose the number of rooms you want (up to 50) and select Add rooms.

In this example, three rooms were created but no one's been assigned to them yet.

Create breakout rooms before meeting.

Select Assign participants.

Choose whether you want Teams to evenly assign people to rooms (Automatically) or assign people yourself (Manually).

As soon as the meeting starts, you can open the breakout rooms.

Create breakout rooms during the meeting

Start the meeting.

In the meeting controls, select Breakout rooms Breakout rooms icon.

Select Breakout rooms

Do the following:

Choose the number of rooms you want (up to 50).

Choose whether you want Teams to evenly assign people to rooms (Automatically) or assign people yourself (Manually).

Image showing how to create breakout rooms.

Note: You won't be able to automatically assign people to breakout rooms later in the meeting.

Select Create rooms.