Find your Canvas class meeting under the Upcoming Meetings tab.

Go to and log in with your DU credentials.

Step 2: Create ZOOM breakout rooms and add your students

Fill out the necessary data fields for your meeting and press Save.

You can create a recurring ZOOM meeting and assign your breakout room groups for the entire academic term.

Navigate to the ZOOM tab and then select Schedule a New Meeting.

Select the course which you are creating a Zoom meeting for.

Step three is to make sure that students access the Zoom class through the Canvas Zoom tab, using their DU credentials (SSO).

Step two is to go to the Zoom web portal ( ) and assign your groups.

Step one is to set up your Zoom class sessions through Canvas.

Students need to login to ZOOM using SSO (DU email and password) Assigning students to a breakout room is a three step process. The breakout room list must use the student’s official university email.Ģ. There are two very important things that need to happen for pre-assigned breakout rooms.ġ.

You have a standing course Zoom meeting and you want students to group together for more than one class/Zoom session.

This is particularly handy in larger classes.

You already have assigned groups or teams and you want to keep students organized into these groups.

There are two likely reasons for wanting to do this: What if you want to assign students to breakout rooms prior to starting your Zoom session? Breakout rooms allow the meeting host to easily move between rooms while the participants continue discussions in smaller groups.ĭuring any Zoom meeting you can quickly set up breakout rooms by clicking on the Breakout Room icon at the bottom of an active Zoom meeting screen.įrom here you can assign your meeting participants to different rooms, or even have Zoom assign them randomly. Using this option, you could simply share instructions (via Canvas, in a Word doc, Excel spreadsheet, etc.) telling students which room they should join, bypassing all of the set-up and authentication issues that pre-assignment requires.One of Zoom’s more useful features is the ability to create virtual breakout rooms. You may find this to be an easier solution than pre-assigning. Zoom now has the option to allow participants to choose their own breakout room. Note that you must use students’ email address to link the breakout room assignments with their UMW Zoom accounts.Īlternative Solution – Allow Students to Choose Their Own Breakout Room Zoom has a detailed guide on pre-assigning breakout rooms in their support documentation. With the above prerequisites in place, you are ready to create and pre-assign your breakout rooms. The web version of Zoom is not supported when authentication is turned on. Note that enabling this feature will require students to log into Zoom using the desktop client or the mobile app. This will require all students to sign into their UMW Zoom account before joining the meeting. To ensure your students are logged into their account when joining the meeting, you can enable “Only authenticated users can join” under Meeting Options when creating your meeting. You may want to direct students to our guide on Creating and Logging into Your UMW Zoom Account. Note that logging into Canvas does not automatically log your students into their Zoom account.

Prepping Your Studentsįor pre-assignments to work, students will need to create, and be logged into, their UMW Zoom account before joining the meeting. It is possible to pre-assign students to breakout rooms beforehand, but you and your students will need to do a little work in advance. Breakout rooms are very useful tool for small-group discussion or project work within a class period, but they can be complicated to set up in the middle of a Zoom meeting.

Pre assign zoom breakout rooms