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Check out this tutorial on How to Create Zoom Meeting Rooms. More tutorials are on the Online Campus webpage.

Breakout rooms in Zoom is a great tool to set up small group discussions. The students will see only their room members. You can set any number of rooms, have students automatically assigned, and then reassign group members as necessary before you open the breakout rooms or move students between rooms after your class starts. If you move them around, you can send them back to their same groups later in the class period. You can set a time limit or manually close the rooms, and it will give them a 60 sec countdown before they come back to the main session.

You can join any group to see how they are doing and float between groups. This really gets students interacting, and turning on their video cameras. Make sure to try this feature. 

You have to enable it in settings. Then once you are in the meeting, you use the little icon on the zoom toolbar to start the breakout sessions. The screenshot below is for turning on the feature in settings. 

Set up your Zoom Room for Office Hours. Send out an announcement about your Office Hours with your Zoom Room login information and time when you will be available. 

During your Office Hours, open your Zoom Room and mute your microphone. Make sure to set your settings to chime (send a sound alert) when someone enters the room. This way you can work on your projects and click over to the Zoom screen when someone joins.

Of course, you can always schedule meetings for your Office Hours, too.