Virtual icebreakers can save your online events from awkward silence. It can also help to get people talking and make for a much more pleasant setting for all involved.

So, if you’re looking to have fun, look no further than this list of the ultimate ice breakers for group chats! These are guaranteed to cheer up your group chat and give you something to talk about all day long. Try one of these virtual ice breakers below to make sure your next event chat isn’t awkward and uncomfortable. And if it is, try again until it isn’t!

What are virtual icebreakers?

Virtual icebreakers are small interactive activities that are designed to break the awkward silence in a group. This resource may seem trivial but it has many benefits!

This interactive tool helps lighten the mood, creates new discussion topics, and encourages participation across all levels of your virtual event. Online or Hybrid event? No problem!

No need to worry about how you’ll keep everyone engaged during a live stream. Virtual icebreakers will do it for you!

Quick virtual icebreakers questions

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We’ve all been there—you’re came in early in the group chat and there’s a dead silence while waiting for the virtual event to start. It can be incredibly uncomfortable. To keep things fun and engaging, send out these engaging questions for everyone to answer.

1. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
2. What is your favorite item you’ve bought this year?
3. What are you looking forward to learning about this event?

Say it with a meme or emoji

Memes and emojis are a popular way to convey a point. They’re visual, fun, and get to the point quickly. In other words, they’re perfect for capturing someone’s attention when you’re in an event group chat setting.

Paint a scenario and ask your audience to say their feelings with a meme or emoji. Some examples that you can try are:

1. When the clock hits 5:00 PM on a Friday
2. That first bite of your favorite dish
3. When you’ve finally closed the deal you’ve been working on for a month

Would you rather…?

The popular question game “Would you rather…?” is an entertaining way to get people involved and stir discussions. Simply ask your participants a thought-provoking ‘this or that’ poll question with two options to choose from. Then, drive a discussion around how people voted and why.

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To send out a poll, go to your Admin Panel, click Settings, then choose Polls. From there, you can start asking these “Would you rather…?” questions:

1. Would you rather…be super rich or super good looking?
2. Would you rather… be always overdressed or underdressed?
3. Would you rather…time travel back to the past or to the future?

Speed networking

A private chat room is a great way to get to know your colleagues before the event. When someone joins the room, speed-chat with them by asking questions about their interests, experience, etc. It’s also important that everyone uses their name so that when people meet each other in real life they are able to recognize one another easily!

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To create a private chat, just click on the username of the person you want to speak with. Anyone can do it, as many private chats as they need! Aside from chat messages, you can also enjoy audio and video calls while inside your personal chat rooms.

Take a photo of…

Use this game to prime your audience for creativity. Ask them to snap a photo and share it with the group. They can take a photo of their desk, their pet, or the view outside their window. Have them post a photo and share some sort of story about it.

Virtual icebreakers for thriving communities

We live in a world where we’re surrounded by screens. Businesses are using social media, marketers are interacting with their customers, and friends are communicating via Facebook.

If you are looking for a way to get your community chatting, then try the list of virtual icebreakers above using your RumbleTalk chat! It can help you create more meaningful conversations around virtual events and group chats.

Simply set up your free chat and you’re good to go. If you need help, just email us at support@rumbletalk.com and we’d be glad to assist you.

Upon the strike of the pandemic, the whole world was forced to interact in virtual spaces. This includes office jobs, grocery and shopping, meetings, events and even the students taking lessons. One of the biggest online platforms in the e-learning space was Google Classroom. This allows many schools all over the world to build their online learning platform for classes.

The missing piece in Google Classroom

Although this platform has been one of the backbones when it comes to online classes, somehow, there is one missing feature that can complete the Google Classroom space – chat sessions.

One way for students and teachers to interact within Google Classrooms is via Zoom Meeting or Google Meet sessions. However, these two ways of communicating are mainly established for large video conference, so often they will be set up in a group setting.

This is where RumbleTalk comes in handy. RumbleTalk is a group chat platform that is mostly used by website owners to create and embed their own group chat platforms on their own website. We have been around since 2011, catering to many huge event companies, including Fortune 500 companies. RumbleTalk Chat is used for events, online community, business websites, job fairs, and school websites.

How RumbleTalk completes the Google Classroom experience

Since the pandemic started, growth for the demand in virtual spaces has taken its toll. Something we have noticed is that many virtual class platforms have taken interest in using RumbleTalk for their own classes because of several reasons:

• Easy-to-setup classroom chat
• Private one-on-one chat rooms
• Moderated Chat (Question and Answer Sessions)
• One-on-one Video/Audio Call features

Setting Up and Sharing RumbleTalk chat to your Google Classroom

1. Sign up for a RumbleTalk Group chat platform Account.

• Visit www.rumbletalk.com and create/register for a free account

2. Once you are in the admin panel, you will find the actual chat you could share with your Google Classroom Stream.

• You will find the hash code below the chat. This will be a link to the actual chat, which you can share to your Google Classroom stream.

3. Let your student know that you already have a Classroom Chat. Just share the URL link to your Google Classroom Stream. 

That’s it! Anyone can open your Google Classroom chat.

Type of Setup for your Google Classroom RumbleTalk Group Chat

Standard Classroom Group Chat (Group Chat)

• Allows your whole class to interact with one another in a virtual classroom setting.
• Choose how Private one-on-one chat conversation will take place:
  • Where students/anyone can chat with one another
  • Students can only send private one-on-one chat to the Teacher

Question and Answer (Moderated Chat)

• Choose to approve or reject messages sent by the students during discussion.

Private student-teacher consultations (Experts Chat)

• You can disable the standard Group chat discussion, and set the chat where students can only talk to the teacher. 
• Students will not see active students in the user’s list as it is automatically disabled. Only the teacher can see and reply to students’ queries.
• Video/Audio call feature is available, and this does not require anyone to install any application on their device. 

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Features and Functions

Mute everyone in the chat (Admin Mode) Video link: Admin mode in RumbleTalk group chat

Having a handful of students sending too many chat conversations can be a distraction. As an educator, you can choose to mute your students all at once. This is helpful if you want to keep the spotlight on your class topic or presentation.

Turn words into links with Keywords Video link: InText Keywords in a Chat Room

Keywords (InTEXT) identify specific words and dynamically turns them into links that will lead you to any webpage, online documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, videos, and affiliate links. This is very useful in an online classroom setting such as Google Classroom because educators can link their students to review materials they can use for the class.

Play YouTube videos directly in the chat Video link: How to add a YouTube video to your RumbleTalk chat?

Unlike other chat platforms, RumbleTalk allows you to embed the YouTube video in the chat room. With this, users can play YouTube videos directly in the chat room, no need to open it in a new tab. Users can enjoy watching the same video while discussing it. Just copy the url of the Youtube video or Vimeo videos you want to share, and then paste and send it into the chat. 

Online classes will greatly benefit from this because teachers and students won’t need to open a new tab just to watch the same video. This helps both parties learn more about one thing – such as when it comes to those who are visual learners. It also reduces distractions since they don’t need to switch tabs or screens while studying

Multimedia Sharing: Send Files & Images Video link: How to attach different file types in a RumbleTalk chat?

Add color to every topic by sharing any type of file, image, and video to the group chat. Using RumbleTalk’s file-sharing tool, educators can just click the paperclip icon at the bottom of the chat window and choose the file they want to share with the class. By doing this, students will have easy access to all the files shared in the group chat, and they will be able to view and download them, even when using their smartphones. This allows for more efficient, interactive conversations with everything you need in one virtual space.

Enhance every online learning experience through Google Classroom and RumbleTalk Chat

As technology continues to change the ways we interact with one another, education professionals are now being expected to have the best in remote learning tools. With RumbleTalk Group Chat, educators can now use Google Classroom to its fullest potential – benefiting students and teachers alike.

Online chat offers several benefits to attendees at hybrid events, such as being able to ask questions and participate in discussions with presenters and other participants in real-time. However, if you aren’t using the right tools, the chat can be frustrating and unproductive.

This guide highlights three tools that will help you maximize RumbleTalk chat during hybrid events. Therefore making the most out of the opportunity to connect and interact.

What are hybrid events?

Hybrid events are those that fall between in-person and online. They usually include a combination of seminar-style talks and networking time.

With so many different ways to engage, hybrid events provide a great opportunity for personal connections to form. This is something in short supply in an online environment.

That said, hybrid events can be difficult to navigate as an attendee. Here are some great ways to support them and supercharge their overall event experience.

Create real-time conversations

Embed a group chat next to your event to give your audience a space to interact. Not only is it an excellent way to build engagement between you and your audience, but it also gives them a venue to ask questions and get responses from each other! It’s essentially their own live chat room that you can monitor and moderate in real-time.

Furthermore, it allows you to reach new audiences, build community, keep attendees engaged and get more sales opportunities. The possibilities are endless!

Attendees who interact in your group chat have a high propensity for being buyers themselves. So, having open discussions about challenges they face and how your solution could be beneficial for them is a great way to increase awareness of your brand, products, or services.

Get people engaged with fun conversational prompts

During a live event or webinar, polls are an easy way to help get participants involved and keep them engaged. You can use polls to ask questions and display results to those in attendance. Moreover, you can simply use them to get people talking about topics that interest them.

Polls are also handy for gathering more information about attendees; asking where they’re from, what their background is, etc., is a great way to gauge audience reactions and see if what you’re presenting is on-target.

Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to use polls.

Versatile and fully customizable chat rooms

One of the visions RumbleTalk has is to make the chat rooms fully customizable, both for novice users and professional developers. Our chat comes with pre-made skins and themes you can choose from. And, it has full CSS capabilities. Perfect for when you want to completely personalize your chat to make it look and feel like your own.

This feature allows organizers to take full control over their rooms. They can do this by choosing which elements should be present and where they should be placed on the screen. Furthermore, the easy-to-use design tab eliminates the need for any backend coding, which makes RumbleTalk a super versatile tool to have in your hybrid event arsenal.

Here.’s a video on how to customize your chat using CSS.

Maximize Your Speakers’ Time with Q&A Tools

Moderating a Q&A between your speaker and audience is a great way to create two-way communication during your hybrid events. This makes sure that audience members get answers to their questions.

However, it’s also easy for Q&A sessions to get out of hand. And in fact, most attendees will tell you that poorly moderated Q&As can actually be worse than no Q&A at all.

Use the Moderated Chat to keep your event running smoothly. This chart type allows you to ap[prove or reject messages, or questions before it goes live. You can also mute all users, ban spammers, and slow down the chat as needed.

Supercharged networking experience

Easily add value and connect with your virtual attendees. How? Just embed a powerful chat plugin beside your hybrid events.

Our tip is to encourage all of your panelists and speakers to use the chat room while they’re speaking so you can have an immediate conversation. It’s more engaging rather than just watching the event without any interaction.

Go ahead and get your free chat now! We’d also be glad to help you set up for your next event, just email us at support@rumbletalk.com.