Zoom Breakout Room Options - Let Participants Choose Room

If you have enabled Breakout Rooms and updated your Zoom App to 5.3.0 or higher, you now have 3 options for Breakout Rooms:

Assign automatically (randomly divides and places participants into rooms)
Assign manually (you need to move each participant into a room)
Let participants choose room (you can name rooms and participants can then join rooms they want)

Once you have opened the Breakout Rooms, participants will see a pop-up with the Room choices. If the pop-up closes before they have a chance to choose, they can click the 3 dots More located at the bottom of the screen and select Breakout Rooms to open the pop-up.

To join a Breakout Room, the participant will need to place their cursor over the number of participants in the room, to see the option to join. Select Join and you will be taken to the Breakout Room

If the host would like to join a Breakout Room, place your cursor over the number of participants to see the option to Join. You will also see any participant that have not joined a room yet.

This video shows the new option in action.