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Can participants freely move between break-out rooms and use the chats of all break-out rooms?

Hi all,

we are planning an online-event: a small conference. For this event we are hosting a Teams webinar in which the presenters will present in sequence.

We thought of using break-out rooms on a per-presentation basis, i.e. for each talk we would create a break-out room in which extended discussions can talk place (mainly via the chat of the break-out room).

For this plan to work out, we would need the ability for our participants to freely move between all break-out room, respectively see all break-out rooms in their chats-panel of the Teams app.

Would this be possible?
As far as I understand the break-out room feature, it is mutually exclusive, i.e., if a participant is assigned to Room A, then the participant can't also be in Room B.

Would there be an alternative solution for this, i.e. one without using break-out rooms at all?

Best regards, Gerhard

Hi Gerhard404,

 

Greetings

 

Thank you for posting in Microsoft 365 Community forum.

 

I understand you want meeting participants to be able to move between rooms. Please correct me if I am wrong.

The feature of moving between room is only for the meeting organizer and the breakout room managers and not for other participants. With the information I have there is no workaround to do this unless you assign all participants to breakout rooms manager, which will come with some inconvenience that needs to be thought through before you commit to this idea. For more information please see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-breakout-rooms-in-teams-meetings-7de1f48a-da07-466c-a5ab-4ebace28e461,  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/create-and-manage-breakout-rooms-during-class-meetings-18b340cd-1106-4fa5-a852-5676614f7e7d

 

Your kind understanding is highly appreciated.

 

Kind regards,

Simbarashe

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Last updated February 17, 2025 Views 1,413 Applies to: