Select ‘Close’.Īt the end of the meeting, you can either leave your Breakout Rooms open or closed. To close individual rooms, hover over the ‘Open’ status icon of the room and select the ellipsis icon.To close all of the open rooms at once, select ‘Close rooms’.Note that participants from open rooms cannot be moved to a different room until their current room is closed.

Select ‘Add room’ to create another Breakout Room at any time. Select the ‘Leave’ button to leave the Breakout Room and return to the main meeting.While you are in a Breakout Room, you will be ‘On Hold’ in the main meeting and will not be able to see if participants have entered the main meeting until you return to the main meeting.

You will be added to the Breakout Room and can interact with all features of the meeting.

Hover over the ‘Open’ status icon of the Breakout Room you want to enter.

The announcement will display in all Breakout Rooms with a red ‘Important’ label.

Select ‘Make an announcement’ and enter your message.

To send an announcement message to all open Breakout Rooms simultaneously, select the ellipsis icon next to the breakout rooms menu title.

The ability to make the sessions so interactive is one of the great things about Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms.

Once Breakout Rooms are active, the organiser continues to be able to actively manage things, move between rooms and communicate with everyone across all breakout rooms.

How do teams breakout rooms work