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Ollie
Jun 28, 2022Brass Contributor
Share hosting of breakout rooms, beyond the person who set up the meeting
Hi, Is it possible to share the hosting of breakout rooms, beyond the person who has set up the meeting? We would like backup facilitators in a meeting to be be able to setup breakout rooms, ope...
- Jun 29, 2022
Hi Ollie I believe that some of your use cases can be covered by appointing "breakout room managers". Breakout room manager functionality is currently available. In terms of permissions, breakout room managers can do the following things:
- Add new rooms and delete existing rooms
- Assign and reassign meeting participants to rooms
- Start and close rooms
- Join any breakout room
- Set time limits for breakout room sessions
- Send announcements to breakout room participants
For more information on how to assign breakout room managers, you can access this article: https://luigiiacobellis.com/how-to-assign-breakout-room-managers-in-a-microsoft-teams-meeting/
Therese_Solimeno
Jun 29, 2022Moderator
Ollie According to the roadmap, this feature was scheduled to roll out this month, but I don't have specifics of the exact date. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=81391