Pre-requisites
- Breakout rooms enabled in your meeting settings
- Host: Zoom Desktop Client on Windows or macOS, version 4.5.0 or higher
Note: If you start the meeting from the Linux client or Zoom Mobile App, you will not be able to see your breakout rooms with pre-assigned participants. - Participants: Zoom Desktop Client or Mobile App, version 4.5.0 or higher
Note:- When joining a meeting with pre-assignments, participants need to be signed in to their Zoom account for pre-assignments to be applied.
Participants will not be pre-assigned if they join from the web client.
Sign in to Desktop Client or Mobile App
- Click Sign in with SSO. Do not use the default sign in on the left.
(If logging in on mobile, it might just be SSO.) - Type in the company domain as: nus-sg and click Continue.
- You will be brought to the NUS log in page, similar to the log in page for LumiNUS. Log in with your NUSNET ID.
- Click Sign in with SSO. Do not use the default sign in on the left.
Limitations
- You can only pre-assign participants that have a Zoom account (internal or external Zoom users).
- When pre-assigning participants using the web portal, you can only pre-assign NUS Zoom users that are in the same account.
- To pre-assign participants that are external Zoom users, import a CSV file.
- If you have registration enabled and external participants register for the meeting, you need to assign them to breakout rooms during the meeting.
- Up to 200 participants can be pre-assigned to breakout rooms.
Pre-assign Breakout Room via the Web Portal
Pre-assign Breakout Room using the .csv file
Tips
If you do not want to do the above, you can still use manual breakout during the meeting for smaller classes.
Ask the students to rename themselves before they join the Zoom session.
E.g., G1_Adam or Gp1-Adam.- At the moment, participants are not able to join their own room manually.
The feature will be available soon as mentioned in this blog post on 20th August 2020.