# Control Features in Breakout Rooms

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/control-features-in-breakout-rooms/29659>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [September 9, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/control-features-in-breakout-rooms/29659 "2020-09-09T15:40:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![curriculum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@curriculum](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/curriculum)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/control-features-in-breakout-rooms/29659/1 "2020-09-09T15:40:45Z")

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My teachers and I would like to be able for the host to be able to control features for breakout rooms on school accounts. We’d like to have the ability to disable chat in breakout rooms because this may avoid problems with students chatting inappropriate things when there’s no adult supervision.

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**Author:** ![pete\_h](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/pete_h/32/30310_2.png) [@pete\_h](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/pete_h)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/control-features-in-breakout-rooms/29659/2 "2023-06-26T18:45:42Z")

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I know this is an old post but this would be a very desirable feature for us as well. We’d like to control the chat feature specifically in _each_ breakout room. Just toggle chat on and off for that specific room. Should there be inappropriate chatting, we’d like to just disable and then hide the chat to prevent the chat from getting “out of hand…”

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**Author:** ![killerworks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/killerworks/32/43568_2.png) [@killerworks](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/killerworks)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/control-features-in-breakout-rooms/29659/3 "2024-03-05T00:26:25Z")

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> [@curriculum](#):
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> We’d like to have the ability to disable chat in breakout rooms because this may avoid problems with students chatting inappropriate things when there’s no adult supervision.

I’d like to revive this topic and add some additional feature enhancement requests for the breakout rooms:

1. “Control gallery view order” for all participants
2. Ability to spotlight and multi-spotlight

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**Author:** ![aysharimsa524065](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/aysharimsa524065/32/65216_2.png) [@aysharimsa524065](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/aysharimsa524065)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 5:09am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/control-features-in-breakout-rooms/29659/4 "2024-11-28T05:09:08Z")

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> [@pete\_h](#):
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> I know this is an old post but this would be a very desirable feature for us as well. We’d like to control the chat feature specifically in _each_ breakout room.

I know this is an old post but this would be a very desirable feature for us as well. We’d like to control the chat feature specifically in _each_ breakout room.However, if they want to watch audult videos they have to download fikfapapp.