What are the limitations of Zoom?

Both Basic and Pro plans allow for unlimited 1-1 meetings, each meeting can have a duration of 24 hours maximum. Your Basic plan has a 40 minutes time limit per each meeting with three or more total participants. Need your group meetings to last longer than 40 minutes?

Does Zoom have a limit on breakout rooms?

Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. The meeting host or co-host can choose to split the participants of the meeting into these separate sessions automatically or manually, or they can allow participants to select and enter breakout sessions as they please.

Can Zoom hosts see what happens in breakout rooms?

Breakout rooms allow the meeting host to break the meeting participants into small groups for discussion or brainstorming. The host of the meeting will not be assigned to a breakout room and cannot see or hear what is happening in the breakout rooms during the meeting.

What is the benefit of breakout rooms in Zoom?

Breakout rooms are sessions that are split off from the main Zoom meeting. They allow the participants to meet in smaller groups, and are completely isolated in terms of audio and video from the main session. Breakout rooms can be used for collaboration and discussion of the meeting.

What are zoom features?

Zoom Meeting features: online video and audio calling (20)

• HD video and audio. Cost: Free [Basic]
• Participant camera feed. Cost: Free [Basic]
• Audio-only conferencing. Cost: Free [Basic]
• Cross-platform messaging. Cost: Free [Basic]
• Password protection.
• End-to-end encryption.
• Zoom scheduling.
• Calendar scheduling.

Can teachers join breakouts?

Students (or other users) can be switched by the meeting host (i.e., the teacher) at any time. Teachers can open and close breakout rooms and send messages to all participants, whether question stems, discussion prompts, or a time warning that they will need to rejoin the larger Zoom meeting at a specific time.

Why are breakout rooms useful?

Breakout rooms give students in online courses an opportunity to collaborate and work in smaller groups. Students report feeling engaged in breakout room activities, and confident speaking in a small group. Breakout rooms also allow instructors an opportunity to check-in with students in smaller groups.

What is a breakout room in Zoom?

Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. The meeting host can choose to split the participants of the meeting into these separate sessions automatically or manually, or they can allow participants to select and enter breakout sessions as they please. The host can switch between sessions at any time.

Should you have a breakout room in Zoom webinars?

It doesn’t hurt to have that as an option. Breakout rooms are only available in Zoom meetings — not webinars. You can control whether users may return to the main session. If they do return to the main session, they can click on “Breakout Rooms” to go back to their assigned room.

What is the maximum number of participants for a Zoom meeting?

If you do not have a Large Meeting add-on, the maximum number of participants is limited by your meeting capacity. Note: Zoom Support can increase the maximum capacity of your account’s Breakout Rooms to allow up to 100 breakout rooms, with a maximum capacity of 1000 per breakout room (depending on account limits).

How do I split a Zoom meeting into separate sessions?

Zoom allows you to split your group meeting into sub-group meetings using the Breakout rooms feature. When using Breakout rooms, a host will be able to move participants of a single meeting to separate sessions. You can create up to 50 breakout rooms on Zoom with a maximum of 500 participants per room (but not when selecting 50 breakout rooms).