 Hi everyone, so let me show you how the Zoom breakout rooms work and thank you to those of you who are here live being guinea pigs here. So click on the more button on the bottom right and then click on breakout rooms and you will see that right now there are four people on the call and I already tried creating a breakout room. That's why it shows that there are people assigned. But I'm going to click recreate, which is how you usually see it when you try to create. And then I have a co-host. I already assigned a co-host here. So that's why it says include co-host. But usually if you don't assign a co-host for the main room, that usually isn't available. And so what happens is you will see it says create or recreate one breakout room and it says four participants per room because there's only one breakout room. There would be one breakout room and one main room, which is only going to be me in it. If I click the up button, it says sometimes a little buggy, but there we go, two. And this is therefore if there's two breakout rooms, there's two participants per room. And I can click up again. No, I can't because there's only four of you here. Oh, I'm sorry. See, sometimes it's buggy. Sometimes you can click up and down. Sometimes you have to like change the number manually. So there's three breakout rooms. That means one break. There's going to be one person in one of the breakout rooms. My math is bad right now. But anyway, so you could assign automatically, which means, let me show you what happens. If I do two breakout rooms, assign automatically, recreate. As you can see, it already randomly placed a bunch of people. I could also assign manually. Okay. Let me try this again. Recreate. In room one, there's nobody in either room. Okay. I click the drop down menu. I click assign and then I can say, okay, I'm going to do Arielle and Nikki in room one. I'm going to assign Mike and Samya in the second room and Jenny. So then there's three people. You could see it the way I'm doing it right now. Let me try one more thing. Options on the bottom left, allow participants to choose room is kind of a cool option, but they would have to know how to do that. Sometimes it's a little bit techie for some people to do that. Allow participants to return to the main session at any time or not allow them to and I have to force it going back eventually. Automatically move all assigned participants into the breakout rooms. That's a good one to keep checked. Otherwise, people have to find the button to join the room. Auto closed. I don't usually do that. Countdown after closing the breakout room. So when I click on, when everyone's in the room or in their rooms and I click close breakouts, how many seconds do they get as a countdown before they're automatically forced back to the main room? 60 seconds is the default or if you want them to automatically, to immediately come back to the main room while they're in mid sentence, you would uncheck the box and they would be immediately brought back when you click close breakouts, which means you would have to put a message into the breakout because you can, you can send a broadcast into all the breakout rooms all at once saying, Hey, everyone, you know, I'm going to bring you back now in 10 seconds or something like that, but 60, keeping this checked is a good idea. Okay. I'm going to click out of the settings here and let's click recreate again and I'll show you let participants choose room. If I do that right now and I click recreate, I could, again, it's letting me assign if possible, but I'm going to click open all rooms and right now all of you who are here lie, you probably see a dialogue pop up. Is that right? Nikki? Is that what you see? Right. Okay. Okay. That's cool. And then if you, it's actually let's say Mike, can you click on join one of the rooms and just to see what happens here? So if Mike goes ahead and joins one of the rooms, then Mike is in that room now and not here and Nikki, do you see Mike's name in room one? You see Mike's name in room one. Okay. So cool. So basically, literally some people might just want to wait for some reason until they see who's joining one room and then they say, well, I want to hang out with Mike. I'm going to join that room. Mike, you're back right now and it's interesting because on my screen, I see Mike's name still in room one and it says not joined in parentheses. So it already, it kind of knew that you were part of that room and somehow you came back and, and I guess you really, do you have another option Mike on your screen to join a different room or room one is it? And right now you can still choose room two. You can, you can still choose that option. Yeah. Cool. There we go. Okay. So it's really, it's really flexible. It looks like, and so like the allow participants to join would be good if you already have like pods in your group program and people know, oh, yeah, you know, Jenny, Mike, you were already part of a pod. And so when you, when I allow people to, because when I, as the host assigned rooms automatically, zoom doesn't know who's part of what pod in my own business, my own group system or whatever. There is a way to go into the zoom settings on the zoom website and pre assign people. But the tricky part about that is you have to know people's email addresses connected to their zoom account. And it's like that coordination itself is a little bit, you know, I guess you could create a spreadsheet, have people fill up, but sometimes people put the wrong email address that's not associated to the, so it's a little bit of a, it's much easier if you just let the participants pick their own rooms. And you could just say, you could say, all right, everyone. And now you should tell everyone in advance, Jenny, Mike, your pod is number one. Maybe there's some kind of a spreadsheet you put together and they could just quickly look, oh, okay, I'm part of pod one. So all right, everyone, pod one people go to room one, pod two people go to room two, et cetera, let people choose. And then that way they could easily, that's a very easy way of doing it versus you having to either automatic, yeah, yeah, Nikki, go ahead. Yes. Oh, that's really good. Yes. Yeah. That's a good, that would be cool. Yeah. That's a really good point. Yeah. That's a, that's a good point and everyone watching this video, comment below if you happen to know the answer to that. But while I have this dialogue up on, you know, you participants are not seeing this right now, but while I have this up where, you know, I'm even wondering if I'm recording your voice, Nikki, I don't know if the YouTubers can see this, but while I have this up, you could see that there's a broadcast message to all button on the bottom left. If I click there, this would be messaging all the breakout rooms. And you could, you could write quite a bit. But I think if you press enter, let me see if I could do, yeah, if I press enter, it broadcasts it out right away. Mike, did you see a message come through just now? It's so funny because Mike is in the main room, but you still saw the broadcast message, right? Did Nikki, did you see a broadcast message in them, even in the, yeah, okay, okay, okay. So that's good to know. I'm going to click close all rooms. Actually, that's not true because you all are in the unassigned room. So there's another room called unassigned. Let me see. Let me see if I could recreate the rooms and if I could rename the rooms. I cannot, I can't see. Oh, I can. I'm sorry. I could see it on the dialogue here. So let's see Pacific time and rename it as, you know, let's say cat lovers or something like that. And do you, do you see the names already? No, you don't, right? You don't see the names yet. I'm going to click open all rooms. Do you see the names now? This is great. Well, I'm learning something while I'm making this tutorial. So I'm great. I'm glad Nikki, you asked a question. This is, this is the next level group facilitation for me because I'm going to start doing this going forward. So this is really cool. Yeah. So thank you. Thank you all for, so we could see rooms here on the dial and then we could see participants here and see, and we can even assign and see if I'm going to assign Arielle to, she's not Pacific time. That's hopefully she's a cat lover. So I could see that I've already signed her and let's see, Nikki, you're Pacific time and the sign need a Pacific time. So I can see that. And you can see, did you see that you're just assigned Nikki? Oh, I think I, I automatically brought them into those rooms. So when I click assign, they automatically moved into it. So I'm going to close all rooms now and hopefully they will come back. Okay. Drop down, up and down here. Okay. And then, okay. All right. Well, I hope this helps. And any other questions from any of you live here or any other ideas? Yeah. About the breakout room. Yes. You couldn't get them out of it. Did you already move them to another room? Okay. It, there's two reasons for that. One is it might just have, because sometimes I notice when I, when I click on assign and then I put people into rooms, it takes like 30 seconds sometimes or 60 seconds even, because of the connection of their technology with the internet or whatever, that might have been an issue. I don't know if that was true. If you, if you, if you waited longer, that might have worked possible. That is a long time away. Exactly. That's a long time away. It's true. Um, the second possibility is that their zoom somehow crashed. If you had waited a long time, let's say you waited 30 or 60 seconds. It's still, maybe their zoom, their zoom crashed and you, it's still, the zoom was just showing them there, but they're not there. Anyway, the third possibility I've realized actually is that their zoom software might be older. So maybe they have an updated their zoom for like, maybe, I don't know, a year or something. And, and they don't have the new connection with zoom yet to be able to be moved. So yeah, possibility. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Did you try, did you try changing the number of breakout rooms? Yeah. So what, what you're not seeing on the screen, which the people watching this on YouTube are seeing right now is I'm changing when I click on create or recreate the breakout rooms, I'm able to change the numbers. And by default, it starts at the number one, which means everybody is, it's in that room, which is, which means, yes, you're going to have to change the number to see how many, how many participants are, are going to be in the room. And sometimes the up and down dialogue works. And sometimes it doesn't. I know it's, I think after, after I put the number in, then the up and down seems to work. But before I put the number in, it doesn't seem to work. So those of you who are live here, you'll watch the video later and see what I'm talking about. So. All right. Well, thank you so much, Jenny, for these questions. Anybody else also has questions about breakouts? Okay. All right. Well, those of you watching this, I hope this was helpful. If you have any other tips for others with for Zoom breakout rooms, please comment below because I'm still learning about this as well. So thank you.