I teach a class of about 60 students, and we need to do some exercies in pairs. For that I am trying to use breakout rooms. The problem is when I need to re-assign students to a different pairs, it seems I need to recreate breakout rooms (with automatic assignment), and there’s a chance some students end up in a room with the same person they’ve already worked together. I need to do these swaps about 5 times per meeting without duplicates.
It would be nice to have a feature to automatically assign particiapnts to pre-made breakout rooms uniquely during a meeting (probably as an option in a room settings).
I thought I could use “pre-assigned participants to breakout rooms” feature to accomplish this task. If I understand correctly, I need to prepare as much CSV files with room assignments as there will be pair exercises, and have to restart meeting that many times. Seems pretty tricky and error-prone. Is there any other ways to achieve that?
Chrome extension not yet on the Chrome store which achieves this functionality: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-t-FtH0GW8). Caveat is that the host must use the extension and run the meeting through Zoom’s web client (Chrome) rather than desktop client.
It is so disappointing that they haven’t been able to figure this out. I had a meeting with about 25 people. I assigned them randomly to rooms. When it shuffled it put people in the same rooms they were just in for the last breakout. I had such high hopes for this app but the UI is horrible. Also. I’m not even sure what this forum is for. Honestly. This question came up in a Google search. How do you send feedback to zoom for things that they could fix?
hi all
I have created a zoom app to re-assign without duplicates.
I have been look for ideas on how to extend it.
It was not too hard to do once you understand how all the Breakout API’s work.
Since I am in the UK, I can not release it with Zoom Charging. So I am not sure how I will realse it.