Breakout Rooms?

OpenVidu v2 How to implement?
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Hi there. I’m looking into building a webconferencing platform for online math classes and having breakout rooms is a “gotta have”.

I’m wondering if this is something OpenVidu can do now, or will be able to do in the near future? Or if there’s even just a way to “port” the audio/video/screensharing from certain users to other users, that is something that we could probably work with.

This post (Series of Rooms Like a Family Gathering) seems to describe a similar thing. Also, this post on the jitsi forums (https://community.jitsi.org/t/breakout-rooms/33486/13?u=gtilflm) explains the idea very well and offers several use cases.

Thank you and please advise.

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Yes, it can be easily implemented with OpenVidu. The basic idea is to create different sessions and then let participants connect to different sessions at the same time or move participants from one session to another.

OpenVidu is a programmable platform allowing “rooms”. You have full control over the rooms. OpenVidu also provide a WebComponent and an Angular component to allow users to connect to
a “room conversation”.