How to do “breakout rooms” in Microsoft Teams – a real life example

I've had a lot of success this semester using both pre-done groups for my classes using group projects and open breakout rooms. For pre-done groups, I created private groups and added students to them. The one challenge was realizing that, even when I scheduled meetings, students in private or public channels could actually start multiple meetings. Once we realized this, we solved it by having one student enter the room and let others know s/he was starting the video chat.

From there, I have no trouble moving back and forth to rooms, and students are also able to invite me to answer specific questions. 

I would like a zoom-like ability to pull people back to the main channel, but I've had a fair amount of success with students paying attention to the time and coming back to the main group at the prescheduled time. 

So the workaround is working, and for long-term group projects, works better than Zoom. For instant dividing students into random breakout rooms, it is not as good.