Google Meet Rolling Out Breakout Rooms for Educational License

 

Google rolls out Breakout Rooms for Google Meet! Helps teachers to divide students based on projects in a single video call.

The search giant Google is  releasing a novel feature for Google Meet, the  all-new Breakout room.    Currently the update has been available for the G Suite Enterprise for Education customers and will be usable for other users  in the future.

The Breakout rooms feature helps teachers and moderators to divide the students on a video call in different rooms for smooth and fuss-free communication. This feature assists in  dividing projects, seminars and assignments  work to the students. As of now, moderators can create up to 100 groups in a single video call.

How to create Breakout Room ?

Important: This feature currently work in G suite Enterprise for Education

• On your computer, start a video call. 
• In the top right, click Activities   Breakout rooms.
• In the Breakout rooms panel, choose the number of breakout rooms. You can create up to 100 breakout rooms in a call. 
• Call participants will then be randomly and equally distributed across the rooms.

1. To manually move people into different rooms, you can either:
   1. Enter the participant’s name.
   2. Click the participant’s name. Hold down the mouse, drag the name, and then drop it into another breakout room. 
2. To randomly mix up the groups again, click Shuffle .

• In the bottom right, click Create

Now, Breakout Rooms cannot be recorded or live streamed.