Break out rooms - assigning people randomly

[SA14]

If you are assigning random break outs more than once in a meeting, does zoom send the same people into the same room each time? 

[Ray_Harwood · Accepted solution]

When you open the "same" rooms in a Zoom Meeting Breakout Session, it remembers where people were originally, and put them back in the same rooms.  The rationale is that often the host/moderator wants the same group of people to talk initially, come back to the main room for a group discussion, and then go back into the Breakout Rooms with the same people that were previously together, to continue their discussion.

If this is not what you want, click the "Recreate" button at the bottom of the Breakout Rooms window, and Zoom will start "fresh" with no room assignments, and if you select the Automatically Assign People to Rooms option, it will re-randomize the assignments.

[SA14]

Thanks a lot for the information! 

[actuality]

Hi

I am needing to use the breakout rooms for the following and wanting to know if the random assign function will work.

Its a group of 20 people. They are in pairs in a breakout room for 6 minutes and then they need to be shuffled to be with a new partner. 

Will the random assign function ensure that every round they are with someone they havent already been with until everyone has had a chance to be with everyone. Like a round robin tournament.

Thanks Shannon