This guide covers the "Breakout Rooms" or “side rooms” that can be configured during an online meeting organized with kMeet the ethical free video conferencing solution by Infomaniak.

Preamble

• These subgroup rooms allow you to divide a main meeting into several simultaneous discussions in distinct virtual spaces.
• Only a moderator can create these rooms and manage participants between the main room and the subgroups.

Create a side room

To add one or more side rooms:

1. Start kMeet as a moderator via kmeet.infomaniak.com or from one of the applications for computer 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 side room:
   
4. Participants can then join the created room or leave it (by displaying the menu with the same button as in point 2 above):
   
5. The moderator can also force one of the participants to join one of the side rooms by clicking on the action menu on the right in the list: