Proving just how adaptive and incredible educators are, I’ve heard many reflect on what has worked successfully, as well as what has been a “false start” in their remote teaching experiences. I read a statistic today that 91% of students globally have been affected by school closures in some way, shape or form! It’s been fascinating to observe the feedback from educators globally as they’ve been forced to transition to remote teaching due to the #COVID19 pandemic that has shut schools across the globe. UPDATE 9th April 2020 – people have pointed out some schools block students creating Meet Now meetings in channels – how can this be resolved? See below. Education specific support documentation focusing on the teacher/student experience in Breakout Rooms.Announcement of new Breakout Rooms blog post.Whilst my ‘work around’ below is still very valuable, you may be interested to learn how the new functionality works: UPDATE 21st December 2020 – Microsoft has officially added native Breakout Room functionality to Microsoft Teams. My original method (further down) still works great, but Mike’s video is also super helpful:

UPDATE 19th January 2021 – Mike Tholfsen has created a great video showing how to use the new breakout room functionality in Microsoft Teams, which you can see below.

How do teams breakout rooms work