Breakout rooms FAQs

This article provides frequently asked questions about hosting breakout rooms.

When creating breakout rooms, how are attendees assigned to each room? Randomly, alphabetically, or otherwise?

Users are assigned randomly.

Can I manually assign attendees to certain rooms before the rooms are created?

No, not at this time.

Can I manually move attendees to and from certain rooms after the rooms have been created?

No, not at this time.

If attendees join a virtual event late, can I move them to a breakout room already in progress?

No. To do that, you will need to to end all breakout rooms and start again.

If my event has three hosts and I create three breakout rooms, how do I ensure that one host will be allocated to each room?

Hosts can manually allocate themselves to rooms.

Can multiple breakout rooms be recorded?

Yes, more than one breakout room may be recorded. Hosts need to enter the breakout room(s) to start the recording for each individual room.

When breakout rooms reach their time limits and close, is there any way to ensure that subsequent breakout rooms will not match attendees with the same group of people? We'd like a round robin networking format.

The room assignments are "re-randomized." However, there is no way to guarantee that they will be different. If you change the number of people in a room (e.g., from 2-3 to 3-4) for the second round, the assignments should be more randomized and have different people in the room.