Breakout rooms allow you to divide participants into smaller groups within a session. This can be useful for discussions, group work, or smaller focus blocks. This can be useful for discussions, group work, smaller focus blocks, or optional breaks (e.g. stretching or dancing).
Only a community session host can start and control a breakout rooms in custom created community sessions.
The toggle for Breakout rooms can be found under section 3: Additional settings - Advanced in the custom session builder
Start a breakout session
In your session, open the menu (⋯) Select Breakout
Choose:
Create a new breakout session, or
Recreate last breakout session
Set up your rooms
There are two separate things happening when setting up breakout rooms:
1. How many rooms
Use the + / – controls to set how many rooms you want
The interface will show how many participants per room
2. How people are assigned to rooms
Assign automatically → participants are distributed evenly across rooms
Assign manually → you choose which participants go into each room (either by dragging them or using the dropdown to select a room)
3. How people enter rooms
If “participants join automatically” is ON → participants are moved into rooms automatically
If OFF → participants are given the option to join the room themselves
Even if you assign someone to a room, they will still have a choice to join unless automatic joining is enabled.
Start the breakout
Once rooms are set up:
Participants will either:
Be moved automatically, or
See a prompt to Join their assigned room
During the breakout session
As a host, you can:
Move between rooms to check in
Adjust room assignments if needed
Monitor who is in each room
End breakout rooms immediately
End breakout rooms with a 60 second buffer
Participants can:
Return to the main room
Leave the call
The session chat is separate from breakout rooms, so you can’t send messages only to participants in a breakout room.
Moving between breakout rooms (hosts)
Hosts need to assign themselves to a room in order to join it.
To enter a breakout room:
Select your own name
Assign yourself to the desired room
Click “Assign changes”
Join the room
You can repeat this process to move between rooms.
Ending the breakout session
To end the session:
Open the breakout controls
Choose:
End in 60 seconds → participants get a warning
End immediately → everyone returns instantly
If set to end in 60 seconds, participants will be notified:
How to leave a breakout room as a participant
To leave a breakout room and return to the main session:
Click Return to Main room
You’ll be moved back to the main room immediately
If you want to leave the call entirely, click Leave call instead
If you leave the session while in a breakout room, you won’t automatically rejoin that breakout room when you return.
Recreate a previous setup
You can reuse a previous room setup by selecting:
Recreate last breakout session
This keeps the same room structure and assignments.
