This guide assumes that you have activated the zoom tool in your canvas course and have already created at least one meeting that you wish to pre assign breakout rooms to.
Breakout rooms zoom pre assign.
Use zoom s sample csv file as a guide.
Navigate to the breakout room option on the meeting tab and verify that the setting is enabled.
In the meeting options section select breakout room pre assign and click create rooms.
You can only pre assign students that will be logged into zoom umn edu and authenticated their zoom account.
Click meetings and schedule a meeting.
I have been trying to get the pre assign feature to work correctly with a group of 80 attendees but only a handful of them end up pre assigned after i upload the csv file and then start the meeting.
Pre assigning participants to breakout rooms using the web portal.
Select the number of rooms you would like to create and how you would like to assign your participants to those.
To pre assign participants that are external zoom users import a csv file.
If the setting is disabled click the toggle to enable it.
You have two options for pre assigning meeting participants to breakout rooms that will be visible when you select this option.
You can also pre assign participants to breakout rooms when you schedule the meeting instead of managing them during the meeting.
Pre assign breakout room via the web portal.
If you have registration enabled and external participants register for the meeting you need to assign them to breakout rooms during the meeting.
Use a csv file to pre assign your attendees to breakout rooms it s recommended that hosts of meetings with large numbers of attendees use a csv file to assign breakout rooms.
Optional click the checkbox to allow meeting hosts to pre assign participants to breakout rooms.
Pre assign breakout rooms troubleshooting.
You can use the create rooms option to directly assign users to the breakout rooms via the zoom website s interface or you can use the import from csv command to upload a specifically formatted csv file to the site.
Pre assign breakout rooms through web portal.
After the rooms are created you ll see a join option right adjacent to the name of the meeting room.
Sign in to the zoom web portal.
Up to 200 participants can be pre assigned to breakout rooms.
Easier options are to not use breakout rooms or to use randomly assigned breakout rooms video demonstration 3 28.
Follow this section if you re using the zoom web client.
Being able to setup breakout rooms and assign your students to the them in advance makes using breakout rooms easier.
If a verification dialog displays choose turn on to verify the change.
Start an instant or scheduled meeting.
Click the plus icon beside rooms to add breakout rooms.
Click on it to enter a breakout room.
Pre assigned breakout rooms have a participant limit be aware that pre assigned breakout rooms are limited to 200 participants.
Breakout rooms can also be assigned through the web portal.
Pre assigned breakout rooms is an advanced usage of zoom.
