Teams Breakout Rooms: Current and Planned Features
Find out what's available now and what's planned for release for Breakout Rooms in Teams meetings.
Meeting Organizers: Current Features for Breakout Rooms
- Must use the Microsoft Teams desktop client
- Schedule private meetings (including recurring) and create private meet-now meetings
- Set up breakout rooms during an active meeting
- Create channel meetings and channel meet-now meetings
- Create up to 50 breakout rooms in a single meeting
- Add, remove and delete breakout rooms
- Rename breakout rooms
- Reassign room participants
- Change room settings, including automatically move people to room
- Make announcements
- Hop between rooms
- Access chats, files and recordings
- Reuse breakout room assignments
- Set up non-channel breakout rooms before a meeting
- Set a timer
Meeting Organizers: Planned Features for Breakout Rooms
- Assign the upcoming role of Meeting Presenter
- Set up channel breakout rooms before a meeting
Meeting Participants: Current Features for Breakout Rooms
- Join from web, desktop, mobile (iOS and Android)
- Support for all in-meeting features
- Access chats, files and recordings
- Current limitations:
- Landline phone callers, desk phones or Teams devices can't join breakout rooms
- Participants can't add others to meeting chat, copy meeting details, nudge others to the
meeting or use "call me back"
- Multi-device join is not supported
Meeting Participants: Planned Features for Breakout Rooms
- Hop between the main meeting and assigned room without the meeting organizer
- Guest users can join breakout rooms
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