Breakout rooms for online meetings and classes
Send the call off into small groups for a discussion or an exercise, look in on any of them, and bring everyone back with one click — or let a timer do it.
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- Works in any browser
- Nothing to install
6 people here · you are the host
Split up, work, come back
Three ways to split
Shuffle everyone into even groups, put each person in a room yourself, or open the rooms and let people pick.
Up to 20 rooms
Name each room for its topic or team, so everyone knows where they’re going and why.
Drop in on any room
Hosts stay in the main room and can visit any breakout, listen in, and help — then come back.
Move people around
Move someone to another room mid-session. Latecomers you’ve already assigned go straight to their room.
Message every room
Send one message that appears in every room at once — “five minutes left”, or the next question.
A timer that holds
Set a time limit and the rooms close on their own. Everyone comes straight back, even if the host has left.
Where small groups do the real work
Breakout rooms turn a lecture into a seminar and a long meeting into a few short ones.
Classes and tutoring
Group work, pair practice and discussion, with the teacher moving between groups. For classrooms.
Workshops and training
Run an exercise in teams, then bring everyone back to share what each group came up with.
Events and meetups
Let people choose a topic table, or shuffle them to meet someone new.
Breakout rooms, answered
How many breakout rooms can I open?
Up to 20 at once, each with its own name if you like. People are spread evenly when you shuffle them.
Can participants choose their own breakout room?
Yes. Open the rooms with “They choose” and everyone sees the list and picks one. You can still move anyone yourself afterwards.
Can the host join a breakout room?
Hosts stay in the main room and can drop in on any breakout — to listen, help or answer a question — and go back, or on to the next.
How do I bring everyone back?
One click closes every room and returns everyone to the main meeting. Or set a timer when you open them: the rooms close on their own when it runs out, even if the host has left the call.
Are breakout rooms available on the free plan?
Breakout rooms come with every paid plan, from $5 per host a month, along with the whiteboard, polls and recording. See pricing.
Can my app open breakout rooms?
Yes. If you embed InlineMeet in your product, your server can open, fill and time breakout rooms through the REST API — the same rooms hosts open from the call.
More of what InlineMeet does
Run your next workshop in breakout rooms
Start free, then upgrade to bring breakout rooms, the whiteboard and polls into every call.