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

Preamble

• These breakout rooms allow you to split 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 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 computers or mobile devices.
2. Once the participants are in the meeting, click on the multi-user icon in the kMeet toolbar.
3. Click on the button to add a breakout 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 breakout rooms by clicking on the action menu on the right in the list: