M365 Changelog: Breakout Rooms participant shuffle

MC549343 – Breakout Rooms Participant Shuffle delivers a new capability to randomly assign participants to rooms also after rooms are created.

Participants can be randomly reassigned both prior to the meeting or during the live meeting.

Shuffling can be applied to all participants or only to unassigned participants, re-distributing them evenly to existing rooms.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 116532

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-May and expect to complete by late May.

Public Preview: Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-May and expect to complete by late May.

Standard Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-June and expect to complete by late June.

GCC-High and DoD: Microsoft will begin rolling out in early July and expect to complete rollout by mid-August.

How this will affect your organization:

Meeting organizers, co-organizers or Breakout Room managers will be now able to utilize new capabilities when assigning participants to Breakout Rooms, both prior to meeting and in meeting:

• Shuffle of all participants
• Shuffle of unassigned participants

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What you need to do to prepare:

No preparation is needed. You may want to update your training materials indicating that the participant shuffle is now supported for managing assignments in Breakout Rooms.