This article explains how to pre-assign participants to breakout rooms in Zoom. NOTE: This cannot be done when scheduling meeting directly within Blackboard. However, you can apply pre-assigned breakout rooms to meeting created within a Blackboard course. Please know before you begin the process, that there are prerequisites and limitations with pre-assigned breakout rooms.
NOTE: If you are assigning breakout rooms to a recurring meeting, it will assign the same breakout rooms and students to all meetings in the recurrence.
Once in the meeting, which has pre-assigned breakout rooms, it is essential that the host NOT start those rooms until all expected participants arrive. If a host clicks on the breakout rooms in a meeting where none or only some of the participants are present, participants will not automatically be assigned to the appropriate rooms. Please see the examples below.
If a meeting with pre-assigned breakout rooms has been started and the host viewed the rooms before all or some of the attendees have arrived, the only way to reset the meeting to allow all attendees to be in their assigned breakout rooms, is to end the meeting, ask them to rejoin, and wait until after they have re-joined before viewing the breakout rooms.