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As Instructor, how do I pre-assign Breakout Rooms?

Before your Zoom lesson

  1. If you'd like to pre-assign Breakout Rooms before your Zoom lesson, enable "Only authenticated users can join"
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  2. Select "All UC Davis - MUST have Zoom account under @ucdavis.edu address *.ucdavis.edu,ucdavis.edu" from the dropdown list.
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Otherwise, follow Zoom's instructions for Creating and Managing breakout rooms to create and randomly assign Breakout Rooms (or assign students manually). 

Please read additional information about Pre-assigning participants to breakout rooms including limitations, how to pre-assign, how to import a CSV of students, and more.

Pre-assigning Participants

You can manually create and assign students to Breakout Rooms, but only if the student is a member of the same account (ucdavis.zoom.us). To pre-assign all students, import a CSV.

  1. Edit your meeting
  2. Enable "Breakout Room pre-assign"
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  3. Select "Import from CSV"
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  4. Download a CSV template, edit it, and upload
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  5. Save the Breakout Room Assignment
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  6. Save the meeting

During your Zoom lesson

Note: Co-hosts cannot manage Breakout Rooms. Co-hosts cannot assign, re-assign, open, or close Breakout Rooms. Co-hosts will be able to freely join any Breakout Room. Assign a TA to be the Host to manage Breakout Rooms.

  1. Click on the Breakout Rooms to view Rooms.
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  2. Zoom will take who has joined your meeting and automatically pre-assign them. If a student joins the Zoom meeting after you open this window, Zoom does not know and will not automatically pre-assign that student(s).
    Our recommendation is before opening the Breakout Rooms, click the "Recreate" button and "Recover to pre-aassigned rooms".
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    This will tell Zoom to take all students in the Zoom meeting and assign them to Breakout Rooms per your pre-assignment list. 
  3. There are additional options you can choose like "Move all participants into breakout rooms automatically".
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  4. When ready, "Open All Rooms"
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  5. After the Breakout Rooms are open, you can manually re-assign a student from one room to another, or manually assign a student to a room. 
    Students not assigned to a Breakout Room will appear as "Unassigned". Hover over their name to manually assign that student to a Breakout Room.
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  6. You can also join any Breakout Room yourself by clicking the "Join" button. You can only be in one room at a time (e.g. main session or a Breakout Room). 
  7. Click the "Close All Rooms" button to close all Breakout Rooms and return your students to the main session. 

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