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Create a kMeet breakout room

Update 08/06/2026

This guide concerns the "Breakout Rooms" that can be configured during an online meeting organized with kMeet, Infomaniak's ethical and free video conferencing solution.

 

Introduction

  • These breakout rooms allow you to split a main meeting into several simultaneous discussionsin separate virtual spaces.
  • Only a moderator can create these rooms and manage participants between the main room and the sub-groups.

 

Create a breakout room

To add one or more breakout rooms:

  1. Start kMeet as a moderator via kmeet.infomaniak.com or from one of the applications for desktop or mobile devices.
  2. Once the participants are in the meeting, click on the multi-user icon in the kMeet toolbar.
  3. Click the button to add a breakout room:
  4. Participants can then join or leave the created room (by displaying the menu using the same button as in point 2 above):
  5. The moderator can also force one of the participants to join one of the breakout rooms by clicking on the action menu on the right in the list:

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