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Max Number Breakout Rooms

  • August 31, 2021
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I am planning a Zoom meeting with 400 participants and would like to create 50 breakout rooms to send the participants to randomly. Is this possible. I am confused with Zoom's documentation on the number of participants and the number of allowed breakout rooms and this is hard for me to test since its so many people. Thanks!

      Best answer by Bort

      Hi @mag 

      I agree that it is confusing and doesn't make much sense. From what I've found out, it's a very weird technical limitation on the backend. 

      As for your question, yes, enabling the Breakout Rooms 100 feature for your account will increase the overall capacity from 50 room/200 participants max to 100 rooms/1000 participants max. 

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      Bort
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      Bort
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      August 31, 2021

      Hi @mag 

      You will not be able to have 50 rooms for 400 participants, as the standard max is 50/200. You will need to contact Zoom Support to request the enablement of Breakout Rooms 100 for your account, which will allow for your specific needs to be met. 

      Keep in mind, this requires ALL participants to be on Zoom client version 5.2 or higher - anyone joining a meeting on your account who does not have Zoom client version 5.2 or higher will be required to update to join the meeting. If your users do not have administrative control of their computers, this will require assistance from your IT Department to update the client.

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      magAuthor
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      August 31, 2021

      Thank you @Bort for your quick response. I don't understand the Zoom limitation with the number of breakout rooms as it relates to the total number of participants. Why is it that the more participants you have the fewer breakout rooms you're allowed. So with 200 participants you can have 50 b/o rooms, but with 400 participants I can only have 20? That makes no sense to me. You think it would be the opposite.

       

      Just to confirm what you're saying is if I contact Zoom and enable 100 b/o rooms I can have what I want which is 50 b/o rooms for 400 people? Thanks so much!!

      Bort
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      BortAnswer
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      August 31, 2021

      Hi @mag 

      I agree that it is confusing and doesn't make much sense. From what I've found out, it's a very weird technical limitation on the backend. 

      As for your question, yes, enabling the Breakout Rooms 100 feature for your account will increase the overall capacity from 50 room/200 participants max to 100 rooms/1000 participants max. 

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