Hi, Sasha here, transformation manager for education and nonprofits at MURAL. And I'm going to talk to you about breakout groups. If you've ever facilitated a meeting workshop or class, chances are you’ve needed to split your participants up into smaller groups, to be able to collaborate together. To get started on that you want to split your groups up in your video conference software. Once everyone is split into groups, you want to bring them into mural to do that. You'll click on the share button in mural, click copy link, then go back to your video conference software and share that link in the chat that will allow all the participants to come into your main mural canvas and begin collaborating. One of the keys to making sure that works well is setting up your canvas with clear areas for each group to do the work. You can see that done here and within one specific area, you can alternatively create larger areas if you know that they're going to need to come in and add more content.

 In some cases you might need to create completely separate mural canvases for each breakout group. If that's the case, you'll leave your main plenary in your old canvas and go back to the dashboard to get back. You'll click on back to dashboard in the upper left. And from there, you'll be able to create your separate breakout mural canvases for each group. To help you organize that. You want to create a specific room for this project, whether it's the meeting workshop or class, if each breakout group mural, canvas is going to be identical, you can create the first one and then duplicate it for each subsequent group to duplicate a canvas. You just click the drop down in the upper, right? And choose duplicate from there. You can update the name and then just click on duplicate mural. Once everything's been created, you can go back into your main plenary.

Now you want to create the specific area where you're going to set up the links to each of those separate breakout mural canvases for each group. You can do that by bringing in either images or sticky notes and labeling them in this case group one, two, three, and four, you might want to include some instructions as well to make it clear what the participants are going to need to do. In some cases you might incorporate icons like this to make it clear that once this is linked, they're going to need to double click it in order to open up the breakout canvas to link it. You're going to click on the image or sticky note and then paste the link here. I'm going to take you back and show you where you can capture that link from the dashboard for group two, click the drop down and click share.

Now I can copy this mural link, go back to the plenary, click the image or sticky that I'm going to link to. I'm going to click command V or copy paste, and then it hit return. And now if anyone double clicks on the shape it'll open up that separate specific mural canvas for that breakout group. Same thing for a sticky note. If I go back to the plenary, select the sticky note and then paste in the link hit return. Now this sticky note is linked.

So again, it can be helpful to add in icons to grab an icon. You just go up in the upper left star, search and then drag it in and resize it. So now it's clear that in order to access, they're going to need to double click this image. In this case, I've added in some instructions to make sure that if it's a sticky note, people click open mural in the bottom, right. And now when the groups come into the canvas, they'll know where they go to open up their separate breakout neural canvases.

I hope that's helpful. Thanks for your time. We'll talk again soon.