breakout room chat

[iselas]

if im in a breakout room and I type something in the chat while in there and it was set " to: everyone" can everyone in the whole session see it or just the people in the breakout room

[Dan_ZoomSE · Accepted solution]

Hello @iselas,

Only the people in that specific breakout room will see your chat message.  It will not be seen in other breakout rooms.

Only the Host or co-host has the ability to broadcast messages to all breakout rooms.

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Thanks!

[Terry_USYD]

Thanks - I's also like to know how to configure such that the general meeting chat follows participants into breakout rooms. Is this possible?

[Milan1]

Is there a way for a person in the breakout room to chat with the host?

[AnkitG]

As per my knowledge, there's no way to chat with the host 1:1 from the breakout room unless he joins in the same room. However, if you click Ask for Help, it will notify the meeting host that you need assistance, and they will be asked to join your breakout room.

[alteristicadmin]

At one time, the general meeting chat would follow participants into breakout rooms... It seems, with the latest update that doesn't happen. We often put instructions for the activities that will be done in breakout rooms in the general room chat, so participants can review them once they get into their breakout rooms. Is there a way to restore this feature of the chat function?

[anemari]

Can someone aswer alteristicadmin question? how do we enable the main chat in the breakout rooms?

[AnkitG]

I see it is possible in the latest Zoom update version 5.14.0

• Retain chat messages from breakout rooms
  When using the new meeting chat experience, users will be able to view the main meeting chat message history when they join a breakout room and also view breakout room chat history when they return to the main meeting. Previously, the new meeting chat experience did not support messages following in and out of breakout rooms.

[anemari]

so in oder for this to work

• each meeting participant need to have the Zoom client updated to latest version 
• and the meeting owner account need to have new meeting chat experience enabled

🤔 ?

[AnkitG]

 @anemari , as per the below article. Only the host needs to enable the new meeting chat experience feature under the account, and it will automatically get unlocked for the participants.
Enabling the new meeting chat experience – Zoom Support