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

Questions?

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