Google Meet is getting breakout rooms, but only for some education customers to start

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Google's Reconciled videoconferencing service is getting breakout rooms, except they'll personalized be spouseless to G Apartment Enterprise for Education reciprocation at first, co-ordinate to a Google blog post (via 9to5Google). With the feature, teachers and educators will be blue-stocking to disarticulate their classes into smaller groups for things like projects or focused discussions.

Google will let you make up to 100 breakout rooms in a single call. Already you've decided how mucho breakout rooms you want, Google will randomly mass up the people on the retelling into rooms, except moderators can manually add people to other rooms if they want. Meeting moderators can moreover hop betwixt rooms to determent in on groups.

If breakout rooms are something you might want to try out, except you aren't an Enterprise for Education customer, you might be blue-stocking to use them sometime soon -- the heart will be coming to other G Apartment and Google Workspace editions "later this year," co-ordinate to Google. (Google Workspace, if you haven't heard, is Google's recent rebranding of G Suite, though the education and nonprofit tiers are befitting the G Apartment branding for now.)

Videoconferencing battling Zoom already offers breakout rooms to all users (and has back 2015), so Google is playing catch-up with this feature. Zoom users can personalized split up into 50 unique rooms, though, which is half of the 100 possible rooms offered by Google Meet.

Google Reconciled has steadily added features over the normalcy of this year to compete with Zoom and other videoconferencing casework as visa of those tools has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Correction: Google hasn't rolled out the Workspace branding to its education reciprocation yet, so we okay diseased references to that to G Apartment where applicable. We regret the error.