Joining a Breakout Room When the Host Allows Participants To Choose Their Rooms

This article describes how participants can join Zoom breakout rooms when the host allows them to do so on their own. A participant may not receive a pop-up option to join a breakout room. These instructions will explain how participants can find the Breakout Room button on a computer and on an iPhone/iPad:

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A host can allow participants to choose a breakout room to join, but participants sometimes do not see the tool tip or the breakout room button to do so.


Zoom's Breakout Room creation feature is shown with 4 breakout rooms created, and the option to "Let participants choose rooms" selected.

 

On a computer

If your computer screen is NOT maximized, you can locate the Breakout room button under the More option.
The three dots for "more" tools are sleected on a Zoom metting, from there, and option to join a breakout room is shown.

  1. Click on More, then click Join Breakout Room.
  2. Choose which room to join by clicking Join next to your selected room.
     Zoom's Breakout Rooms pop-up - showing the rooms are created and 'in progress.' A highlighted box surrounds the 'join' option next to a room.

On an iPhone or iPad:

Participants will NOT see the Breakout room button until they tap anywhere on their screen, to ‘wake it up’ first.

On a Zoom meeting in a mobile device, an arrow points to click on the option for Joining a Breakout room.

  1. Tap your screen.
  2. Tap the Join Breakout Room button.
  3. Tap your selection and then tap the Join button to go into your selection.

A breakout room has been selected, and a blue Join button is shown on the bottom of the list.

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