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Keep chat window open when moving to and from breakout rooms

bertr8nd
Newcomer
Newcomer

Hi,

 

Is there a way to keep the chat window from closing when moving in and out of breakout rooms? As facilitators, we need to use the chat window to communicate with participants, both in and outside of breakout rooms. The default action for zoom seems to be to close the chat window when moving to or out of a breakout room (or moving between breakout rooms). However, this means I am losing precious time finding my zoom chat window back when coming out of a breakout room. Is there a way to keep this chat window from closing. 

 

If there currently is no way, can we request this as a feature?

 

I am using Zoom on a mac.

 

Thanks,

Bert

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Ginatralala
Explorer
Explorer

I would like the same with the timer app. , music app, transcript window. I am in a leadership team. I want to be ready for my breakout room but the timer app is shut down when we move in and out of breakout room. This is very inconvenient  for efficient facilitation. Can you support us with this?  Thanks! 😃