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Facilitate multiple breakout groups at once

How to watch several tables at once in RoomRadar without picking one to sit with: switch between live transcripts, catch themes as they emerge, and never miss a quiet group.

Updated Jul 8, 20263 min read
The live overview panel showing what is being discussed right now across several groups, alongside a topic heatmap

You cannot be at every table. That is the whole reason multi-table workshops usually force a choice between facilitating and documenting. RoomRadar's live workspace is built so one facilitator can effectively facilitate multiple breakout groups at once, not by physically being everywhere, but by surfacing what needs you and letting the rest run quietly in the background.

Switch between groups

Every connected table appears as its own entry in the group sidebar. Click a group to open its live transcript and follow that table's conversation word for word, useful when you want to actually read what is being said, not just glance at activity. Switching groups is instant, so checking in on five tables in thirty seconds is realistic, not aspirational.

Watch the room without opening a single group

You do not have to click into a group to know something is happening. The Live overview builds a picture across every table at once: a "What's being discussed right now" view surfaces the current moment from whichever group has something worth seeing, and a topic heatmap shows which groups have touched which themes, click a cell to read what was actually said. This is the direct answer to "you can never be at every table": the overview is built from moments generated during the meeting, so themes surface as they emerge instead of only appearing in the final report.

Never miss a quiet table

A group that has gone quiet is easy to miss when you are reading another table's transcript. The alerts bell exists specifically for this, it flags a table whose talking pace has dropped well below the room's median, a group that sounds stuck, or one drifting off the topic you set, and puts a dot on that group in the sidebar so you know where to look next. Treat the overview and the alerts bell as a pair: the overview tells you what is going well, the bell tells you what needs you.

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Start on the overview
Open the live overview to see what is being discussed across all groups before deciding where to look closer.
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Follow the alerts, not a fixed rotation
Let the alerts bell tell you which table needs attention rather than checking every group on a timer, a quiet or stuck group gets flagged the moment it happens.
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Drop into a transcript when it matters
Click a group to read its live transcript directly when the overview or an alert tells you it is worth a closer look.
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Zoom back out
Return to the overview between check-ins so cross-group themes keep building instead of only seeing one table's view.
Use the topic heatmap before you intervene in a group. If three other tables already raised the same point a struggling group is circling, you can redirect them with context instead of guessing.
The overview needs a few groups actively talking before it has enough to build from. In the first minute or two of a session, individual group transcripts are more useful than the overview.

FAQ

Do I need to click through every group manually to stay on top of the workshop?

No. The live overview and the alerts bell are built so you mostly do not have to. Use them to decide which group is worth opening rather than rotating through all of them on a schedule.

Can I see what a specific theme looked like across tables?

Yes. The topic heatmap in the overview shows which groups touched a given topic, click a cell to read their actual contributions rather than a summary.

What is the difference between the overview and a group transcript?

The transcript is one table's conversation, word for word, in order. The overview is built across every table at once, moments, themes, and a heatmap, so you can spot patterns a single transcript would not show.