Breakout room enhancements

Display breakout room timer to users in the Main room

In this update, when breakout rooms are active in a session and a breakout timer is set, users in the Main room can now see the breakout timer in the media window. This helps users who are not present in the breakout rooms to know when the breakout session will end.

Leaders, co-presenters, and any participants who are still not assigned a breakout room can see the updated breakout timers as they move from one room to another, and even when they go back to the Main room. The room name is displayed beside the timer.

Figure 1. Breakout Timer in Main room
Breakout Timer in Main room

Automatically restore video camera privileges in the Main room

Prior to this update, if participants had video camera privileges in the Main room before breakout rooms were started, then when these participants returned to the Main room from a breakout room, video camera privileges were not restored automatically and leaders had to manually assign them the privileges again.

In this update, the video camera privileges of a participant are maintained in the Main room after a breakout session ends. That is, if participants had video camera privileges assigned in the Main room before the start of breakout rooms, then the privileges are now automatically restored when they return to the Main room after the breakout room ends, irrespective of their video camera status in the breakout room they were in.