Sharing Screen and Broadcasting to Breakout Rooms
Modified on: Mon, Oct 17 2022 2:16 PMHow to share your screen to all breakout rooms
Once breakout rooms are open for participants, the host or co-host can share their screen from the main session directly into all open breakout rooms. This allows the presenter to share visual information to all breakout rooms at once, guiding them on the next steps or tasks.
- Click Share Screen
in the meeting controls.
- Enable the Share to breakout rooms option along the bottom of the share window.
- Choose what you would like to share, including an entire screen, a specific open program, or others.
- (Optional) Click the Share Sound option as well to include audio with the shared content.
Note: This requires version 5.10.0 or higher to share audio with content to breakout rooms. - Click Share.
The selected content will be shared to all breakout rooms. Any active shares in any breakout rooms will be interrupted for the host's/co-host's shared screen. Annotation or whiteboarding is saved before the host's shared content is viewed.
How to broadcast to all breakout rooms
After breakout rooms are open for participants, the host can broadcast a message or mic audio to all breakout rooms.
Broadcast a message to all breakout rooms
The host can broadcast a message to all breakout rooms, to share information with all participants.
Note: This must be enabled in your breakout room settings.
- In the meeting controls, click Breakout Rooms
.
- Click Broadcast, and select Broadcast Message.
- Enter your message and click the send icon
.The message will appear for all participants in breakout rooms, and disappear after ~10 seconds.
Broadcast mic audio to all breakout rooms
IMPORTANT - This feature requires 5.11.9 or later. If participants do not have that version or higher, they will not hear your broadcast.
The host can broadcast their voice to all breakout rooms, to share verbal information with all participants.
- In the meeting controls, click Breakout Rooms
.
- Click Broadcast, and select Broadcast Voice.
- Click the broadcast voice icon
to begin broadcasting. Your mic audio will be broadcast to all breakout rooms.
- Click the stop icon
to stop your broadcast.
Note: Alternatively, you can press and hold the B key on your keyboard to broadcast your voice as needed.