Now in public preview: Support for Co-organizer to Manage Breakout Rooms

Description

The Microsoft Teams breakout rooms feature now enables co-organizers to create, manage and move between breakout rooms like meeting organizers. Co-organizers now can:

• Create rooms
• Configure room settings, including appointing additional breakout room managers
• Assign participants
• Add/remove rooms
• Open/close rooms
• Send announcements
• Rename/delete rooms

 

Flighting status

Available to everyone in Public Preview channel.

 

How to enable

Users assigned https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-co-organizers-to-a-meeting-in-teams-0de2c31c-8207-47ff-ae2a-fc1792d466e2 in the main meeting can https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-breakout-rooms-in-teams-meetings-7de1f48a-da07-466c-a5ab-4ebace28e461 on behalf of the organizer. They are also automatically assigned the co-organizer role in breakout room meetings and can access/modify meeting options for any breakout rooms.

When rooms are opened, co-organizers will be treated like organizers with regards to the ability to join and move freely between breakout rooms.

 

Note 1: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below.

Note 2: To be able to use this feature, users need to be in Public Preview. Other users are not required to be in Public Preview.

 

Supported clients and platforms

Windows	macOS	iOS	Android	Linux	Google Chrome	Firefox	Safari	Microsoft Edge
Yes	Yes

 

Known issues

None

 

Known limitations

Co-organizers won't be able to pre-create rooms and pre-assign participants ahead of meeting start. Breakout rooms creation/management will only be possible during live meeting for co-organizers.

 

Enable your Teams client for the public preview 

 

1. First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at https://docs.microsoft.com/MicrosoftTeams/public-preview-doc-updates.  
2. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. Learn how at https://support.microsoft.com/office/get-early-access-to-new-teams-features-a6e387fe-1cad-4f90-ad78-1a311c77b36d 

 

Send us your feedback 

Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback.  This is on the bottom left of your client.

 

 

Thank you,

Preview Team

Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams