In Zoom’s breakout rooms panel, you can manually assign students to a room if they arrive after you’ve launched breakout rooms during your meeting. Unfortunately, Zoom won’t move them into a room automatically in any circumstance, including when you had Zoom automatically assign students to rooms or if you’ve pre-assigned students to rooms in advance of your meeting.
Why are my students not showing up in pre-assigned breakout rooms?
Some students log in to Zoom class meetings without using their Miami credentials, which means they aren’t being recognized in your manually pre-assigned breakout room since they’re based on email addresses. Also, students may experience issues joining meetings, or they can’t see polls when they join by browser or dial in. They need some guidance in knowing the best way to join your meeting.
Does Zoom record breakout rooms?
No—Zoom currently doesn’t record breakout rooms. If you opt to record a meeting to your computer, it’ll record breakout rooms as you visit them; if you opt to record to the cloud, it won’t record them at all. With cloud recording, Zoom will automatically pause recording when you send students into breakout rooms, then automatically resume when you close them.
How do I create breakout rooms in a Webex meeting?
Breakout sessions aren’t a feature in Webex Meetings—you’ll instead need to schedule a session in Zoom if you’d like to have your students work in small groups during class time. If your students will be working in the same groups all semester, you could also consider using Webex Teams for your class.