On a pure tools note: I used BigBlueButton today and it had seamless timed breakouts that work like:
- the leader assigns people to breakout rooms and sets a duration
- those participants then don’t have to do anything – each person’s videocall session changes to a call among their breakout group, and the leader can move among them
- when the duration elapses, everyone automatically rejoins the main room
which might be a useful model. I’d also want there to be a way for individual participants to move to different breakouts, or start their own without having to wait for a leader.