BigBlueButton: Breakout Rooms

Note: To access comprehensive information on session facilitation and explore additional features, please visit the BigBlueButton Session Facilitation article.

Note: The following example shows how groups are generated during the session. 

In this example, there are only two students, but in a real class there are likely to be more. 

2. Breakout rooms  can be assigned by clicking on the Randomly assign link or by dragging students' names into different rooms.

3. Choose a Duration (in minutes) after which participants return to the main session. 

Note: You can increase or decrease the duration while students are in breakout rooms.

4. Check Allow users to choose rooms if that is appropriate for your session. You can also choose Save whiteboard and Save shared notes. There are options to Send invitation to assigned moderators and to Propagate the current lock settings for each room.

Note: If you choose the Save options, the whiteboard and shared notes will be saved as PDF files after the breakout rooms end. You can click on the file names to open the PDFs. 

5. Click on the Create button.

Note: Each participant will receive a prompt to join the room. They should click on the Join room button

After entering the room, each participant should confirm their audio settings again.

During the breakout session, groups and the remaining time are listed in the Breakout Rooms panel. Instructors can send a message to all breakout rooms from this panel.

Note: New in 3.0.23
Recording settings now carry through to breakout rooms automatically and viewer activity is now tracked inside breakout rooms for analytics purposes. Users are now correctly re-assigned to their previous breakout room on reconnect and the virtual background URL setting now works inside breakout rooms.

Note: To access comprehensive information on session facilitation and explore additional features, please visit the BigBlueButton Session Facilitation article.