Nuked Google’s meet videoconferencing service is getting breakout rooms. They’ll be available to g suite enterprise for education customers at first. With the feature, teachers and educators will be able to break their classes into smaller groups for things like projects or focused discussions.
Google will let you make up to 100 breakout rooms in a single call. When you’ve decided how many breakout rooms you want, Google will randomly group up the people on the call into rooms. Meeting moderators can also hop between rooms to check in on groups.
The feature will be coming to other g suite and Google workspace editions’later this year’. The education and nonprofit tiers are keeping the G suite branding for now.
Videoconferencing rival zoom already offers breakout rooms to all users. Zoom users can only split up into 50 different rooms, which is half of the 100 possible rooms offered by Google meet.
Google meet has added features over the course of this year to compete with zoom and other videoconferencing services. Use of these tools has skyrocketed during the covid-19 pandemic.
