How do I do this?

[GuideArch_base]

How do I do this? And what plan is gonna be the best plan.

Here is a situation. I'd like to do online school service.

There are so many teachers like Teacher1, T2, T3... T1000

And there are so many students like Student1, S2, S3... S3000

For example, we have 5 classes at the exact same time (20th December from 2PM to 3PM)

Teachers are not permanent staffs (a part-time cram schoolteacher), so I don't give them a zoom license.

But of course, they need a zoom room for each teacher.

How can I make a room individually for each teacher at the same time, all by myself (alone)

If I make one room for T1 at 2PM, I can't make other rooms, right?

How can I make 5 rooms at 2PM.

[storyhub]

On a pro plan you can simply use breakout rooms for each teacher. This only requires one license if you are the host and manage the breakout rooms.

[Ray_Harwood]

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @GuideArch_base.

i like @storyhub‘s approach to doing this as inexpensively as possible. I’d like to expand a little on how you might fully implement this. 

First off all, I’d highly recommend generating some online videos as “orientation” for new students – “show and tell” an example setup and hour to navigate it.

Next, think a bit about a physical in-person school, and your one Zoom meeting is the Virtual equivalent of that school. Note that the maximum occupancy of that school is 1,000 attendees, which includes everyone – teachers, students, and “administrative staff” like you.  (Zoom Meetings are limited to 1,000 at any one time.)

You would start the Meeting 10-15 minutes early (like opening the doors of the school), and start the Breakout Rooms (like turning on the lights for each classroom). (Breakout Room names can be created in advance so you don’t have to do them manually.) Then, as teachers and students arrive “in the building” (the main meeting), they would use the Breakout Room selection window to pick their room and go in. You’d be there in the main meeting (the “lobby” of the school) to help anyone with questions. “Where’s my class?” and so forth. For students that have a hard time navigating the Breakout Room selection process, you can assign them directly to a room.

During class, if the teacher has an issue or needs help in any way, there’s the “Request help from Host” menu item in the Breakout Room, where you’ll be summoned to assist. You go to the room, have your discussion, and go back to the “lobby”, to assist late arrivers, etc. 

Eventually everyone will get the flow of things, and you can just start the meeting, keep it active on speakers in your office in case anyone asks for help, but teachers and students will just go to their rooms and do their thing.  

The lobby might be a place where people “hang out” and socialize between classes, or you might consider having a separate “Social Room” as a Breakout. 

There are a couple of things to look out for. The biggest one is that some types of computers have can’t get into Breakout Rooms successfully. See the blue Requirements box on this Zoom Support article for some info:

https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0060313

Lastly, two more suggestions. First, read all the online Zoom Support articles relating to Breakout Rooms that you can find. Secondly, gather a group of friends and teachers and make a test run of this whole process – preferably several times. You won’t uncover everything that can go wrong, but you’ll work through some issues, and get more comfortable dealing with them.

There are ways to “share the load” of opening and managing the overall meeting, so you wouldn’t always have to be there.

If you decide this approach will work for you, reach back out to me and I’ll help you with any other  details.  There’s still a lot to consider, like keeping the meeting (school) secure, and scheduling your meetings long-term. 

And if your online school starts to become profitable, we can discuss other approaches that might be more student/teacher friendly. But this is a good start – for a shoestring budget. 

Best of luck!!

Ray