It is vital that Google Meets enables recording of break-out groups. I am a teacher teaching remotely and recording is a requirement under Child Protection Policy. If I can’t record the group meeting I can’t use break-out groups.
At the time of writing, Google Meet doesn’t have a breakout rooms feature. You don’t get the ability to split the participants of the main meeting into different sessions or switch between them as a host.
What is the new Google Meet breakout room feature?
Unlike before, the new feature lets Google Meet users create breakout rooms before video meetings using the Calendar app, thus eliminating the need to pause during a meeting to create them in the moment.
You can create Breakout rooms for meetings in Google Calendar when creating an event or editing it. You can also create breakout rooms while a meeting is in progress. Create a new Google Calendar event. Click Add Google Meet video conferencing., and add participants. Click Change conference settings. On the left, click Breakout rooms .
Then, how do I create a split-out room in Google Meet?
One source claimed click Add Google Meet video conferencing., and add participants. Click Change conference settings. On the left, click Breakout rooms. Drag participants into different rooms. Enter names directly into a room. Click Shuffle to mix the groups. Open an existing Google Calendar event.
How do I join breakout rooms in a video meeting?
Your moderator can join each breakout room at any time during the video meeting. From your computer or the Meet mobile app, join a video meeting. When your moderator invites you to join a breakout room, you’ll see a prompt on your screen. Click or tap Join. If you click or tap Cancel, you still remain in the main video meeting.
During a video call, you can choose to leave a breakout room and return to the video call’s main room. On a computer: At the top, click Return to main call. On a mobile device: At the top, tap to Return to main call. When the moderator ends the breakout room session, you get an on-screen prompt to return to the main call.
Where can I find the breakout rooms?
You can find the Breakout rooms in the meeting. If you click the three dots in the lower right hand corner it should be near the top. You have to be the first person in the meeting though. I’m having the same problem everyone else is having when it comes to adding my students.
Moderators can use breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller groups during video calls. Breakout rooms must be started by moderators during a video call on a computer. Breakout rooms currently can’t be live streamed or recorded. Anyone who schedules or starts a meeting will be the meeting host.
How many breakout rooms can I create in a call?
In the Breakout rooms panel, choose the number of breakout rooms. You can create up to 100 breakout rooms in a call. Call participants are then distributed across the rooms. To manually move people into different rooms, you can: Enter the participant’s name directly into a breakout room.