How to Rename Your Zoom Breakout Rooms


Introduction

These instructions show how to rename your Zoom breakout rooms. Hosts may wish to do this when specific breakout rooms are meant to serve a specific purpose.

Example Use Cases:

  • There are guest lecturers in specific breakout rooms and the meeting host would like participants to be able to choose which breakout room they would like to join.
  • A meeting host would like participants to join multiple breakout rooms during the meeting and wants them to be able to self-identify where they belong. For example:
    • Round 1: Tenor/Alto
    • Round 1: Soprano/Bass
    • Round 2: Tenor/Bass
    • Round 2: Alto/Soprano



StepWhat to doHow it looks
1Go to https://biola.zoom.us/meeting#/upcoming.
2

Click on the meeting you would like to rename breakout rooms in.


3

Click Edit.

Note: If you are asked if you would like to edit just this one meeting or all occurrences, you must click the option to edit all occurrences or else it will not save.

4Click Edit  under the Breakout Room pre-assign section.

5Click the breakout room name you'd like to edit.

6

Click the pencil to the right of the breakout room name.

7Type the desired name of the breakout room.

8Repeat steps 5-7 until all breakout rooms are named as desired.
9Click Save.