How to Create Breakout Rooms in Teams (Staff)
Create breakout rooms -
You can automatically assign people to breakout rooms when you create them. If you want to move people around later in the meeting, you'll have to do so manually.
To create breakout rooms, you must be a meeting organizer or presenter who's been appointed a breakout rooms manager.
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Create breakout rooms before the meeting
Go to your Teams calendar and open the meeting invite.
Go to Breakout rooms and select Create rooms.
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Choose the number of rooms you want (up to 50) and select Add rooms.
In this example, three rooms were created but no one's been assigned to them yet.
Select Assign participants.
Choose whether you want Teams to evenly assign people to rooms (Automatically) or assign people yourself (Manually).
As soon as the meeting starts, you can open the breakout rooms.
Create breakout rooms during the meeting
Start the meeting.
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In the meeting controls, select Breakout rooms 
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Do the following:
Choose the number of rooms you want (up to 50).
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Choose whether you want Teams to evenly assign people to rooms (Automatically) or assign people yourself (Manually).
Note: You won't be able to automatically assign people to breakout rooms later in the meeting.
Select Create rooms.
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