As of September 15, Webex has released additional enhancements to their service. Please note the following upgrades:
Video Breakout Sessions in Webex Meetings
Breakout sessions allow you to place your meeting participants into smaller groups to collaborate and share ideas. This is great for workshops, classrooms, or for when you just need a moment to talk privately with a few others, outside of the main session.
Breakout sessions are easy to create and manage. You can even have participants assigned automatically. Inside of the breakout session is like being in a smaller meeting, complete with audio and video where participants can collaborate and share content, or even ask the host for help from the main session. The host can bring everyone back into the main session at any time or after a scheduled time limit.
In-Meeting Cohost Role
As a meeting host, you can now assign other meeting participants as co-hosts. Co-hosts share your host-level privileges like muting and unmuting other participants, moving participants to or admitting participants from the lobby, and manage breakout session assignments.
Co-host is the evolution of the previous alternate host role. The “alternate host” setting has been renamed to “co-host” so that only the first co-host with a host license can start the meeting. Everyone who previously had set their meetings and personal rooms to “anyone can host” will be automatically transferred to this new setting.
You can also assign co-hosts on the fly, directly in-meeting, by simply right-clicking the participant and changing their role to Co-host. You can have as many co-hosts in a meeting as you wish, including external participants, but they won’t have the authority to start the meeting.