Breakout Rooms allows hosts to divide their audience into smaller, more focused discussion groups during a live webinar. This powerful tool is designed to enable customer success teams, event organizers, and educators to foster deeper connections and facilitate more meaningful interactions.
To enable a Breakout Room, follow these steps:
Join a Virtual Stage as a Host
In the Settings icon within the Virtual Stage on the right, toggle on the Breakout Rooms feature
The Hosts within the Virtual Stage will now see a Breakout button to the right of the Go Live button
When ready to enable Breakout Rooms, select the Breakout button, and then Yes, Start Breakout
Your audience will then be prompted to set up their media device settings which include their microphone, camera, and optional virtual background and noise cancellation feature, and then they will select Join. Hosts will have an End Networking button to bring the audience back to the Virtual Stage experience.
The entire audience will initially join one Breakout Room. If you would like to divide your audience now into smaller groups, you can do so by following these steps:
As the Host, select the Breakout button within your bottom console center
Select Create a new breakout session button
Select the number of breakout rooms you would like to divide your audience into and then choose to automatically assign (check Participants join automatically box) users into the room or assign each individual attendee into a room
When ready, you can choose to bring your audience back into the main breakout room (where you began the breakout experience) or bring your audience back to the Virtual Stage (where they will lose access to their camera and microphone.
If you would like your audience to return to the main breakout room, select the red End breakout session bar button on the bottom of your breakout settings. This will ask whether you want to bring your audience immediately back to the main breakout room, or provide them 60 seconds to wrap up their conversations.
If you would like your audience to return to the Virtual Stage experience, select the End Breakout button in the top right corner of the Virtual Stage, and then Yes, End Breakout. Your audience will then return to the Virtual Stage at that time.
What is the difference between Breakout Rooms and the Networking Hub?
Breakout rooms provides a seamless experience to open up individual rooms for your audience to interact with one another and access their camera and microphones — all within the same Virtual Stage experience.
The Networking Hub is a separate component that allows for networking within individual circles and more traditional sponsorship use case. You can embed a Networking Hub onto any landing page that collects registration and more. Learn more here.