Google Meet is has been making many wonderful updates this past year but this one may be one of my favorites! You can now pre-assign breakout rooms in your google meet and it is pretty simple!
**This can only be done using your Gustavus Google Calendar***
Set up the pre-assigned breakout rooms
- Either create a new calendar event and add the Google Meet conferencing or open an existing event with Google Meet conferencing already set up
- Invite the attendees. Tip: This is a great place for faculty to add the email alias for the course
- Click the gear to the right of the google meet link
- Click the breakout rooms option
- This will have some breakout rooms automatically created and the participants that you have invited will appear in the rooms
- Select how many Rooms you want by selecting the number or room on top
- Rename the rooms by clicking on room and typing in new name
- Click Clear to clear all groups
- Drag and drop participants to the group you want them to be in
- Click Shuffle to have groups automatically assigned
- Click Save
- If asked to send it to your participants, select Send.
- You can go in and change these breakout rooms at any time.
Launch Breakout Rooms
(Note: You must be the creator of this event (host) in order to do this)
- Open your Google Meet
- Click the Activities button on the top right
- Click Breakout rooms
- All participants will appear in the main room. To see the set breakout rooms, click Set up breakout rooms
- The pre-assigned rooms and participants will be defined
- To move participants to another room, simply click and drag them to another room
- When you are ready to open the rooms, click Open Rooms
- The pre-assigned breakout rooms will stay in effect until you change them
To see the Wiki about Google Meet, please visit https://gustavus.edu/gts/Google_Meet#Pre-assigned_Breakout_Rooms
To watch a video tutorial on this process, please visit https://youtu.be/mZLNkS_9JxA
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