# Breakout room "shepparding"

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/breakout-room-shepparding/15632>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [April 30, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/breakout-room-shepparding/15632 "2020-04-30T19:28:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![loehr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/loehr/32/7387_2.png) [@loehr](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/loehr)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/breakout-room-shepparding/15632/1 "2020-04-30T19:28:58Z")

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**This is for developer-specific feature requests. For other requests please contact our customer support team.**

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**  
We are beginning to use Breakouts for larger and larger meetings, ie, \>40…  
Many of our attendees do NOT have personal zoom accounts, and likely will not.

**Describe the solution you’d like**

A) allow us to register people without a zoom account to assigned breakout rooms.  
B) allow people who we let into the meeting, choose which breakout they want to attend.

**Describe alternatives you’ve considered**  
We have no good solution at this time.

**Additional context**  
The way to get folks to buy a zoom account is to demonstrate its usefulness. If it were easier to give them good experiences with flexible breakout rooms that are easy for hosts to setup/pre-assign, and easy for attendees dropping in and out of meetings to quickly/easily go into chosen breakouts.

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**Author:** ![tommy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tommy/32/72769_2.png) [@tommy](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tommy)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/breakout-room-shepparding/15632/2 "2020-05-01T20:26:47Z")

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Hey @loehr,

Thanks for sharing your feature request. Can you please submit it directly to our product team here: [zoom.us/feed](http://zoom.us/feed)

-Tommy

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**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/breakout-room-shepparding/15632/3 "2020-08-21T21:00:46Z")

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Closed on August 21, 2020, 9:00pm UTC