Put everyone in the same room with immersive viewīeing in a Zoom meeting usually feels like you're in a workplace version of Hollywood Squares, but Zoom has another option for you. Click the three-dot menu beside your name and click Rename. After the call begins, click Participants in the toolbar at the bottom of the window and then, in the pane that opens on the right, find your name. Zoom also lets you change your name just for the Zoom call you currently happen to be in. Click Edit, adjust your name, and then click Save. In the navigation pane on the left, click Profile, and then find your name and photo (if you use one) near the top of the page. To permanently change the way your name appears in Zoom meetings, open the Zoom webpage in a browser and sign into your account, if necessary. Not happy with how your name appears in Zoom meetings? You can fix that - either permanently, or each time you enter a meeting. Once configured, you can broadcast messages to all the rooms at once and close the rooms, bringing them back to the main meeting whenever you like. You can let Zoom assign people to rooms randomly, let the attendees choose their own rooms, or you can manually put people in rooms as you see fit.

The rooms are easy to configure - within a meeting, click Breakout Rooms in the toolbar at the bottom of the video window (it's usually in the overflow, though, so you probably need to click More and then click Breakout Rooms). If you're the host, you can send people off to work in breakout rooms. Breakout rooms are a handy way to let small groups collaborate within the framework of a larger meeting.

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