Prerequisite to create breakout rooms:

• You need the MS Teams desktop client.
• You are the organiser of the meeting.
• The MS Teams meeting has already started.

To create breakout rooms, proceed as follows:

1. Click on the “Group rooms” (“Gruppenräume”) icon.

   

2. Select the desired number of rooms. You can create up to 50 rooms.
3. Define how participants are assigned:
   1. a. automatic: when the assignment of participants does not matter

    

   b. manually: if specific groups are planned
4. Click on “Create rooms” (“Räume erstellen“).

   

5. As soon as you have created the group rooms, the “Group rooms” (“Gruppenräume”) window appears on the right-hand side.

   

6. In the “Group Rooms” (“Gruppenräume”) window you can:
   • start the breakout rooms
   • give the rooms individual names
   • add rooms
   • delete rooms
   • add participants to other rooms subsequently
   • discard room layouts and create new room layouts
   • switch between the rooms as a moderator, to participate in individual breakout rooms
   • make announcements in all breakout Rooms at the same time
   • define settings for rooms
   • close individual breakout rooms
   • close all breakout rooms simultaneously