{"id":15701,"date":"2019-09-30T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=15701&preview=true&preview_id=15701"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:16","slug":"bluejeans-breakout-sessions-add-meeting-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/30\/bluejeans-breakout-sessions-add-meeting-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"BlueJeans Breakout Sessions add meeting flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BlueJeans meeting moderators can initiate Breakout Sessions from the Apps section of the interface<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Information and Technology Services (ITS) and BlueJeans Network are bringing a new feature called Breakout Sessions to U-M\u2019s preferred conferencing service. Breakout Sessions allow meeting moderators to create separate rooms and move participants in and out of them as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The feature is expected to be available to BlueJeans users in the U-M community this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BlueJeans<\/a> offers industry-leading videoconferencing, content sharing, and real-time video to the University of Michigan, and it is available today at no extra cost to your unit (BlueJeans units, except for University Hospitals, pay ITS annually based on their faculty, staff, and student headcount).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breakout Sessions have been anticipated as a means to form smaller groups without the need to create additional BlueJeans meetings. For example, with one meeting ID, teams can now choose to separate into subgroups before rejoining the whole. Likewise, Breakout Sessions allows instructors to create separate, temporary work sessions as part of their virtual classroom curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note<\/strong>: Only meeting moderators can assign users to breakout rooms. They can do so manually or randomly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All features supported<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As noted on a BlueJeans support page about the topic<\/a>, \u201call features and functionality supported within main meetings are also supported in Breakout Sessions. This includes two-way video, audio, content share, chat, whiteboarding, annotation, and more. Features that require the Moderator will be accessible only if the Moderator joins the Breakout Session (e.g. initiating manual recording).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

App version 2.15 required<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Moderators must be using the BlueJeans Desktop App Version 2.15 to control Breakout Sessions. Supported participant endpoints<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n