Forum Discussion
Sharing Screen & Annotation during a Teams Meeting
Hello Dears,
Is it possible to participants to annotate on the shared screen during a Teams Meeting?
Not sure posting here is the right place, but maybe someone can help out, since I am banging my head on this.
Happy to see the annotation pen icon when I share screens. However, its not working. If I am the host, I can click this icon, but nothing happens. No blue box around the screen, no annotation tools pop up. The icon stays solid like I am supposed to be annotating, but nothing. When I click the icon, other viewers see a spinning icon, but nothing else.
I had another user host the meeting, and when they clicked the icon, they got the annotation tools. They said they could draw all over their screen, but I could not see the annotations. I could see their pointer moving around, and could tell that it was in either pen or highlighter mode by its shape and color, but none of the annotation showed through to my screen.
I read on MS site overviewing this topic that I might need to turn off GPU hardware acceleration but that did not help.
Suggestions?
Thanks
- Can this please get added as a feature?
How can teams be a quality collaboration tool if you can't fully collaborate??
Our team meets to go over maps and other documents that we need annotate together. This has been asked for since 2020 and is a great feature of Zoom but our company prefers to keep things in teams as much as possible. I hate having to set up a Zoom meeting just so we can all be able to annotate together.
This seriously can't be that hard to add this featureTim_Overbeck It's on the roadmap for June
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=86732
Thank you so much. long overdue!
- I have added a uservoice again, it seems that all the above have been deleted
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/207a6a38-2a93-ec11-a81b-000d3a05eb77ciuban I don't think they are being deleted, just joined together into one collection, so the votes get pooled. See the collection at Add an ability for meeting participants to draw on shared screen · Community (microsoft.com)
- Thanks! It would've been nice of Microsoft if they had linked the aggregated issue when pooling them. But at least they're working on it!
- Really need annotation for training and supporting clients on our Power BI apps! Everyone's experience is degraded without the visual cues and much time is wasted orienting the user/group verbally. Will make all the difference 🙂
- Well it's 2022, and feature is still not available, unfortunately our company has migrated from Zoom. Going to be painful. Guess productivity is not the goal for this app.
Hey everyone, I created a feedback for this, please consider upvoting:
- please can you add the annotate feature!!!!!!! many clients don't want to use zoom because of the perceived security issues
- MikeWilcox
Microsoft
DAmmar2370 Please take a look at Dynamics Remote Assist which integrates seamlessly w/ Teams and runs on Droid devices/Iphones and Hololens.
Download the IOS App at:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dynamics-365-remote-assist/id1470512565
More info:
https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/mixed-reality/remote-assist/
MikeWilcox the use case is a different one. We actually use remote assist with the Hololens setup and it works ok. But the use case of the TO is to annotate a screen in front of you. Any additional equipment besides the mouse is in the way
- Screen capture and screen sharing it with picture editor (poor man‘s solution)
stevesandrio good suggestion. Here's another. Just use Zoom until Microsoft fixes this.
- Only in the whiteboard you can add to the meeting!
- Adam Can you please give us an update on when this functionality will be available without whiteboard or third party apps? It is critical for corporate training to transition away from Webex.
Unfortunately without the ability to import an image or images the whiteboard in Teams is seriously lacking in functionality. adam deltinger
- Just imagine it being 2021, the whole world has had an entire year of remote work and conference calls, and have a web conference product that still doesnt support this.
I am amazed their own internal msft userbase isnt demanding this... maybe they dont work collaboratively?
adam deltinger - is it just me or is this an absolute own-goal on the part of MSFT?
It's really not acceptable to have to have a third party annotation tool. I use Zoom for all my external meetings (and about half of my internal meetings) precisely because I can annotate.
Anyone know where we can get a campaign together and get this feature added?
Really needs to have annotation to effectively compete with Zoom.
