Creating meeting breakout rooms from poll results

When hosting a meeting and wanting to split attendees based on certain criteria, the host can use participants' responses to polling in order to assign them into their appropriate breakout room. This can speed up the breakout room assignment process, or make it easier to group participants appropriately for further discussions. Hosts can also set a limit for how many participants are placed in each breakout room and move or exchange participants after launching the breakout rooms.

This article covers

• Limitations for creating breakout rooms from poll results
• How to create breakout rooms from poll results
  • Set up polls with the option to create breakout rooms
  • Launch the breakout room from the poll results

Prerequisites for creating breakout rooms from poll results

• Breakout room, polling for meetings, and creation of breakout rooms from poll results must be enabled
• Zoom desktop client for Windows, macOS, or Linux: 5.13.5 or higher

Limitations for creating breakout rooms from poll results

• Applicable to single choice polling questions
• Require answers to be anonymous must be disabled

How to create breakout rooms from poll results

Set up polls with the option to create breakout rooms

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
2. Access the poll/quizzes you have created either from the Polls/Quizzes tab or your scheduled meeting.
   Note: The feature only works for single choice polling questions.
3. From the same window where you add poll questions, toggle to enable Create Breakout Rooms to create breakout rooms in meetings based on participant answer for a particular question.
   Note: This feature will not work if Require answers to be anonymous check box is selected. If your poll has multiple questions, you must toggle to enable Create Breakout Rooms for the specific question you wish to base the creation of the breakout room from
4. Click Save.

Launch the breakout rooms from the poll results

1. During your meeting, launch the poll for participants to respond to.
2. Once you would like to stop the poll, click End Poll.
3. From the Polls/Quizzes results window, click Create Breakout Rooms.
   Note: If your poll has multiple questions, you must click the Create Breakout Rooms button for the specific question you wish to base the creation of the breakout room from
4. (Optional) In the Create Breakout Rooms window, you can decide how many participants you want in each breakout room. You can manually move participants around after you create the rooms.
5. Click Create.
6. (Optional) Hover on a participant’s name then click Move to or Exchange
7. Click Open All Rooms.