How to set up breakout rooms before a Microsoft Teams meeting

Summary

Have you experienced the challenge of trying to break into groups during an online meeting? With breakout rooms in #MicrosoftTeams, moving into smaller groups to brainstorm or have deeper discussions is now even easier, no matter where everyone is at.

Body

Foster connections and meaningful discussions in medium to large Teams meetings by creating breakout rooms. Create and manage breakout rooms when you use Teams for desktop to organize a meeting with up to 300 people.

See the full Microsoft support article on managing breakout rooms in MS Teams:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/manage-breakout-rooms-in-microsoft-teams-7de1f48a-da07-466c-a5ab-4ebace28e461

Or watch this video primer:


 

To learn more about participating in breakout room sessions, see Join a breakout room in Microsoft Teams meetings.

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Article ID: 13744
Created
Fri 10/3/25 4:49 PM
Modified
Fri 10/3/25 4:59 PM

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Part of the Office 365 suite of services, Microsoft (MS) Teams provides a tool for instant messaging, voice and video calls/meetings, screen-sharing, shared document repositories and more.