Facilitation

Monitor multiple breakout group discussions live

Read the live meeting workspace while it runs: group cards, per-group transcripts, and an overview that turns every table's conversation into themes and a timeline you can scan at a glance.

Updated Jul 8, 20263 min read
The live workspace showing group cards, a live transcript panel, and the overview timeline

To monitor multiple breakout group discussions live, RoomRadar gives you three views at once: a card per group showing its live status, a transcript panel for whichever group you pick, and an overview that turns every table's conversation into themes and a timeline as the workshop runs. This guide covers reading all three so you can tell which table needs you without walking the room.

The group cards: status at a glance

Every connected table shows up as its own card. A card lights up while its group is actively talking, shows a muted icon if you have muted it, and flags a warning icon if it hits an error state. A card in the middle of joining shows a connecting indicator instead of controls. Click the headphone icon on any card to listen in live, or open its menu to rename it or disconnect it.

The live transcript

Select a group to see its transcript update in real time as RoomRadar transcribes what is being said at that table. This is the ground truth, useful when you want to read exactly what a group said rather than a summary of it.

The overview: themes and a timeline across every table

The overview is what makes monitoring several tables at once possible without reading every transcript. As the meeting runs, it builds up topics in focus, a "what's being discussed right now" card per group, and a timeline that lays every group out on a shared time axis, one row per table. Blocks on that timeline are colored by dimension, topic, sentiment, energy, and sized to the actual time spent, so silence reads as empty space and a long, single-colored block reads as sustained focus. Click a block to drill into the sentences behind it.

The overview needs a few minutes of live conversation before it has anything to show, early on it tells you it is still building up from moments generated during the meeting.

Scan the overview timeline first. A table with a long block of one topic is settled; a table with many short, fragmented blocks is jumping around, often the one worth walking over to.

Let alerts flag the table that needs you

Rather than watching every card constantly, turn on Alerts from the bell icon: it can flag groups that have gone quiet compared to the others, groups that seem to need help or are stuck, and groups drifting off the topic you set. When one fires, you get a toast naming the group so you know exactly where to look, you can also mute the sound and just check the bell dropdown periodically instead.

A group that shows no audio is not necessarily unattended, RoomRadar retries the connection automatically. See swap or reconnect a phone for what to do if it does not recover on its own.

FAQ

Can I listen to a group without them knowing?

Listening in is visible from the workspace side, not hidden from participants by design, the audio pill and connection state on their phone are unaffected either way, so listening does not change what they see.

How soon does the overview start showing themes?

It needs a few minutes of live conversation across your groups before topics and the timeline have anything to show. Click Refresh once a few groups have been talking for a while.

What is the difference between the transcript panel and the overview?

The transcript panel is one group's raw, real-time text. The overview is built across all groups at once, themes, a shared timeline, and moments, so you can compare tables instead of reading line by line.