Host and Participant Controls in Breakout Rooms in AT&T Office@Hand Video
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Host controls

The default host is the person who scheduled the meeting, but the host can also assign other participants as moderators or hosts.

• -/+: Create or delete a breakout room.
• Auto assign: Automatically assign participants to specific breakout rooms.
• Clear assignments: Remove the assigned breakout rooms of participants.
• Search for a room or participant: Search for a specific room or participants.
• Unassigned: Lists the participants that don’t have a breakout room assigned to them yet.
• Room/s: Displays the breakout room/s you created and the participants assigned to it.
• Join: Join a specific breakout room.
• Open all rooms: Separate participants into their assigned breakout rooms.
• Close all rooms: Close all the breakout rooms and put all participants back into the main meeting.

This control is only available if the breakout rooms are open.

Participant controls

While in a breakout room, participants can do the following:

• Chat: Send public messages to everyone in the breakout room or private messages to the host. To learn more about the chat feature, visit Using Chat in Breakout Rooms in AT&T Office@Hand Video Desktop and Web.
• Leave: Leave the breakout room and rejoin the main meeting or leave the meeting.

Using the AT&T Office@Hand Video mobile app, hosts and participants can:

• Receive notifications about breakout room assignments, including the specific room.

  

• Receive notifications when they’re moved to the main meeting.

  

• Leave breakout rooms and return to the main meeting or return to the breakout room.

NOTE: Hosts can create, configure, and manage breakout rooms via the AT&T Office@Hand desktop and web app only.

Hosts and participants can access the following controls for breakout rooms via their mobile phones:

• Leave: Tap Leave at the top right and choose the following options:
• Return to main meeting: Tap to leave the breakout room.
• Leave meeting: Tap to leave the meeting.

  

• Participants: Tap Participants at the bottom menu bar to view the participants list and which breakout room they’re assigned to.