Breakout rooms
With Lessonspace breakout rooms, you can split your classes into groups for activities without chaos breaking out, with our unique childproof features designed specifically for teachers.
Locating the Breakout Manager
- You will be able to access the Breakout Manager to create and manage Breakout Rooms in the following ways:
In a completely new Space with no content added as illustrated below:
In an existing Space that has content inside, you can access the Breakout Manager by clicking on the + icon in the top left-hand corner:
OR you can access the Breakout Manager from the People Menu:
Creating Breakout Rooms
The Breakout Manager allows you to create and manage breakout room participants, content, and communications.
To create a new breakout room, click on New Breakout. Breakout rooms are named automatically but you have the option to rename them.
Adding students to Breakout Rooms
- You can move participants and tabs around to the different rooms by clicking on a participant or tab and dragging it to the relevant room.
📌 Important: participants and content will only be moved to their allocated breakout rooms once you click on the Apply Changes button.
Adding tabs (whiteboards) to Breakout Rooms
- You can drag and drop your tabs (whiteboards or document tabs) to breakout rooms.
The video clip below shows how to move participants and content between breakout rooms in the Breakout Manager. When Apply Changes is clicked, participants and content are moved to their respective breakout rooms.
The images below show what participants will see in their individual rooms once they’ve been moved.
Moving between Breakout Rooms as a teacher
You (as a leader/tutor) may join an individual breakout room by opening the People menu (click the chat bubble icon, then click on People) and clicking the Join button. You may also join a room by dragging your name to the room that you want to join.
📌 Tip: Participants can also be moved between rooms by clicking and dragging their names.
Student management and monitoring
In the People menu, the Leader can view the video feeds of all users on one screen, to easily spot shenanigans.
📌 Tip: Grab a student's video to drag them into the main room to explain an exercise or to ask them to pay attention. Then drag and drop them back to their room.
Making announcements and sending messages
Access the chat functions in the Breakout Manager to communicate with participants within breakout rooms from the Main Room.
- Make Announcement: sends a chat message to all participants in all rooms.
- Breakout Room Chat: sends a chat message to the specific room.
Recording Breakout Rooms
If your organization has enabled recordings, breakout room activities will be automatically recorded across all rooms, even when the Leader is not present. During playback, you can switch between different breakout rooms or choose to follow a specific user by selecting them in the bottom right corner.
If you have any questions or need any help with the Breakout Room feature, please get in touch with us at support@thelessonspace.com.