New feature request to allow automatic exclusion from Breakout Rooms

[PlanetThoughts]

There are many advanced, subtle features in Zoom Meetings. However, a significant hole seems to be this: when running breakout rooms, some people may wish to be excluded from all breakout rooms. Other than manually assigning them, or manually moving them after breakout rooms are started, there is no way to make this simpler.

Here are some options that would help:

1) Have a feature checkbox to set individual users (set by host or by the user) to not go to breakout rooms, and have an icon in the meeting that shows they have chosen this

2) Designate in settings a character at the start of their name (e.g. * or _) that would automatically prevent them from going to breakout rooms

3) Have an option that if enabled automatically prevents users with no video from going to breakout rooms, since for many meetings, the personal touch in a breakout room means the participants want to see each other

The above features would, in my experience, greatly help, in meetings, facilitate the operating of breakout rooms. I have noted in many meetings that the host / co-host asks participants to rename themselves with a special character before the name if they don't want to go to breakout rooms, but then allowing that to be respected automatically rather than needing manual effort, would be helpful. Thanks.

[jdott16]

Hello,

I would advise that you request a feature enhancement.

Anyone with a Zoom account can submit a Feature Request to our Product Team, please visit Sending feedback to Zoom Please follow us at http://blog.zoom.us and our release notes https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/sections/201214205-Release-Notes for new product and feature announcements.

If you are a user on a Premier/Premier+ account, you should have access to submit Feature Requests on the community page here: https://community.zoom.com/t5/Zoom-Feature-Requests/idb-p/ZoomFeatureRequests 

If you are on an account that has a Customer Success Manager (CSM) then have your Zoom company admin reach out to your Zoom CSM who can submit a Feature Request on your behalf.

So, depending on your account there are a few ways to submit Feature Requests to Zoom to improve and enhance our product. 

I hope this helps and please make sure to mark the solution as accepted if this information is what you needed.

Thank you,

Jake