> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.dingtalk.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How to Use Breakout Discussions?

> Split a DingTalk meeting into smaller breakout rooms for parallel discussion, with host controls for room assignment, time limits, broadcasts, and re-merge.

## How to Use Breakout Rooms?

After breakout rooms are enabled, the host can divide participants into smaller groups for discussion. When the discussion ends, everyone can return to the main meeting room.

* Messages and activities inside each breakout room, including chat, video meeting, sharing, and reactions, are visible only within that room.

* The host can freely enter and leave each breakout room and join the discussions.

## Availability

1. Only the host or co-host can configure breakout rooms.

2. Free users can create up to 2 breakout rooms. Paid versions support up to 50 breakout rooms.

DingTalk Meetings paid plans provide unlimited-time meetings and 10+ benefits. Users can purchase or request consultation from the relevant DingTalk Meetings purchase pages.

## Create Breakout Rooms as Host

**Entry point:** During a meeting, click **More** at the bottom, then click **Breakout Rooms**.

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### Grouping Methods

The host can choose the number of rooms and assign participants in three ways:

1. **Auto assign:** Participants are randomly assigned to different rooms.

2. **Manual assign:** The host assigns participants to the desired rooms.

3. **Participants choose rooms:** Participants choose which rooms to join.

> Free users can currently create up to 2 breakout rooms. Paid users can create up to 50 breakout rooms.

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## Edit Breakout Rooms

After creating breakout rooms, the host can continue editing them as needed.

1. **Manage room members:** Arrange members in each breakout room.

2. **Manage rooms:** Add, delete, or rename breakout rooms.

3. **Breakout room settings:** Set the discussion duration, participant movement permissions, and other options.

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### Manage Breakout Room Members

* **Assign members:** Hover over the breakout room name and click **Assign** to select room members.

* **Move members:** Drag a member into or out of a room, or hover over the member and click **Move to** to choose another room.

### Add or Delete Breakout Rooms

* **Add a room:** Click **Add Disscussion Group** in the lower-left corner of the breakout room panel.

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* **Delete a room:** Hover over the room name and click the delete button on the right.

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### Rename a Breakout Room

Hover over the breakout room name, click **Rename** on the right, enter a new room name, then click outside the field or press Esc to finish.

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### Configure Breakout Room Settings

Click **Settings** in the lower-left corner of the breakout room panel. You can configure:

1. How members join breakout rooms: require member confirmation or automatically join assigned rooms.

2. Member movement permissions: whether members can return to the main meeting room at any time and choose rooms themselves.

3. Return countdown: how many minutes the discussion lasts before it ends automatically.

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## During Breakout Room Discussions

During breakout discussions, information inside a room is visible only to that room, including chat, video, sharing, and reactions.

### View the Current Room

The upper-left corner of the meeting window shows the current room or main meeting room.

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### Host: Join a Breakout Room

During a meeting, click **More**, click **Breakout Rooms** to open the panel, hover over the room name, click **Assign**, and select yourself to join that room.

### Host: Broadcast a Message

During a meeting, click **More**, click **Breakout Rooms** to open the panel. After discussion starts, click the broadcast button in the lower-left corner, enter the message, then click **Send**. All participants receive the broadcast.

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## End Breakout Room Discussions

### End Manually

During a meeting, click **More**, click **Breakout Rooms** to open the panel, click **End Discussion** in the lower-right corner, then confirm by clicking **End Discussion** in the pop-up.

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### End Automatically with a Countdown

Prerequisite: A return countdown has been set in breakout room settings.

When the countdown ends, the host receives a confirmation pop-up. Click **End Discussion** to end the breakout rooms.