We’re excited to announce that your Zoom Breakout Rooms are getting a lot bigger! Breakout Rooms allow you to split your meetings into smaller sessions for improved collaboration and discussion.

Starting Tuesday, October 5th, you’ll be able to create up to 100 breakout rooms per meeting with as many as 1000 participants in each room. This is increased from the previous limit of 50 breakout rooms with capacities ranging between 200 and 500 participants. Additional licensing may be required to allow up to 1000 participants to join your meetings.

To make this possible, Zoom will need to end any active meetings at 6 am on Tuesday, October 5th. Affected meetings can be restarted immediately.

Following this upgrade, your participants must use Zoom 5.2.0 or higher to join your meetings. IS&T previously required internal participants to use Zoom 5.7.4 or higher in August. Zoom will implement additional upgrade requirements this November. To learn more about keeping Zoom up to date on your device, check out our page on how to update Zoom.