This would be the major difference between om and zoom and WebEx for sure. It's a feature our developers need to implement it om is unable to provide soon.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 12:12 Andrea Croci <andrea.cr...@gmx.de> wrote: > Funny that nobody has ever asked for this feature: it's the most widely > used in education. I know BigBlueButton and Zoom have it, Jitsi and > Skype don't. I personally used BBB as a teacher and the others as a > student (being myself in a training as a teacher). > > Speaking of BBB by experience: Participants get sent into another room > either random or according to the selection by the teacher, who also > decides how many new rooms he wants and how long they should go for. > After that time the rooms end automatically, which is kind of annoying > because they could be in the middle of something and need just a few > extra seconds and they get interrupted. On the other hand, when the > teacher says it's time to go back to the main room, so should it be, > meaning the moderator should have the possibility to extend the time by > one minute or so just by clicking a button, but the participant > shouldn't (now the has the ability to end the breakout session when he > wants, but not to extend it). An extremely annoying thing in BBB is that > when the teacher wants to visit another room, which he should do one > after the other to see what's going on there, he must do the "echo test" > again. Not only that, but even worse: every time you unmute yourself > (having muted when you visit another room in order not to hear what the > people in another room are saying and not to be heard by them talking to > someone else), the "echo test" starts again. It's good to know if your > microphone and audio works ahead of time, but it takes so much time that > it defies the whole purpose of the idea. I used the feature sparingly > just because of this, but know some colleagues have used it more. It > would also be helpful if the breakout rooms were opened in the > moderator's browser automatically in new tabs and the tabs were named > appropriately, so that he can decide which room he wants to visit and > choose the correct one just by looking at the name in the tab. > > In Zoom I was at the student side of it and I found it great. You > discuss what you have to discuss and one minute before the end it tells > you that the session is about to end and counts down the remaining > seconds. I just wish this countdown window were moveable, so that if you > are in the middle of showing something it doesn't stick in the way. > > I think it would be a great feature to implement and I know it also gets > used by some businesses in some meetings. > > Regards, Andrea > > On 27.07.21 18:09, Maxim Solodovnik wrote: > > To be fair this is the only request for such feature :))) > > > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 20:46, Jeffry Johnson <jeffry.s.john...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Yes that is exactly what I mean. I was just curious if anyone had ever > been able to implement it. Thx! > >> > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 05:37 Maxim Solodovnik <solomax...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> Hello Jeffry, > >>> > >>> by "breakout room" do you mean the possibility to move some of the > participants to another room and then get back? > >>> > >>> it is impossible out-of-the-box :( > >>> > >>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 17:44, Jeffry Johnson < > jeffry.s.john...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hi all, > >>>>> > >>>>> Has anyone been able to implement breakout rooms in open meetings? > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Best regards, > >>> Maxim > > > > >
