Much has been said about Zoom's breakout rooms, which teachers can use to put their students into different pairs or groups. Then the teacher can monitor them by 'joining' (my personal favourite: 'popping in and out') various breakout rooms.
I'd like to share two more advanced ways of using breakout rooms:
- Swap students between pairs and groups - when they're already in breakout roomsUse the 'assign to' function and move your student(s) to another breakout room - there's no need for everyone to return to the main session.
- Put the 'fast finishers' into a breakout room - more students can be added to it
The rest of the students can stay in the main session as they complete a lesson task.