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Preassign Participants to Breakouts Rooms Using a CSV File

  • Sign into the Zoom web portal.
  • Click “Meetings” and schedule a meeting.
  • In the Meeting Options section, select “Breakout Room pre-assign” and click “Import from CSV.”
  • Click “Download” to download a sample CSV file you can fill out (Figure 1).


Figure 1

Import Rooms and Participants from CSV file window


  • Open the CSV file with spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel. You can also specify internal or external Zoom users.
  • Fill in the Preassign Room Name column with the breakout room name and the Email Address column with the assigned participant's email address. 
  • Save the file.
  • Drag and drop the file into the web portal.
  • Zoom will verify that the email address has a Zoom account.



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Adapted from Zoom