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DAmmar2370
Brass Contributor
Mar 25, 2020

Sharing Screen & Annotation during a Teams Meeting

Microsoft TeamsMeetings   Hello Dears, Is it possible to participants to annotate on the shared screen during a Teams Meeting?
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adam deltinger's avatar
adam deltinger
MVP
Mar 25, 2020
Only in the whiteboard you can add to the meeting!
  • PeterGonzalez's avatar
    PeterGonzalez
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 30, 2022
    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.
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    Cozza1971
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 30, 2021

    Unfortunately without the ability to import an image or images the whiteboard in Teams is seriously lacking in functionality.  adam deltinger 

    • jkhouw's avatar
      jkhouw
      Copper Contributor
      Mar 06, 2021
      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?
  • SE_TCH's avatar
    SE_TCH
    Brass Contributor
    May 07, 2020

    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?

    • DeanSelleyERPM's avatar
      DeanSelleyERPM
      Copper Contributor
      Dec 09, 2020

      Really needs to have annotation to effectively compete with Zoom.

    • gyanendrakarkisblco's avatar
      gyanendrakarkisblco
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 12, 2020

      This is very much needed feature. Though I have corporate user of office 365, i am forced to use zoom due to unavailability of this feature in teams. 

    • Mohammed_Al-Baroodi's avatar
      Mohammed_Al-Baroodi
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 19, 2020

      I absolutely agree. The only way to do that is to share the whole desktop and use Pen option in power point. SE_TCH 

      • KatrinaMorris's avatar
        KatrinaMorris
        Brass Contributor
        Sep 17, 2020

        Mohammed_Al-Baroodi Or add text boxes through the developer tab into your PowerPoint to type into

  • DAmmar2370's avatar
    DAmmar2370
    Brass Contributor
    Mar 26, 2020
    That's Bad ! Thanks@adam deltinger 
  • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
    jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Mar 25, 2020
    Or in third party Apps similar to whiteboard
      • lucky2020's avatar
        lucky2020
        Copper Contributor
        Apr 09, 2020

        something like vuforia right in a teams video call would be helpful Nikitha-MSFT 

    • DAmmar2370's avatar
      DAmmar2370
      Brass Contributor
      Mar 26, 2020
      would u recommend me any other app like whiteboard plz? Juan
      • SE_TCH's avatar
        SE_TCH
        Brass Contributor
        Jan 27, 2021

        DAmmar2370 - if you want to annotate whatever you're displaying, then my suggestions is DON'T USE TEAMS until MSFT fixes this issue.

        Zoom's solution works really well, Webex less-so in my experience.

         

        Whiteboard apps simply don't fix this problem except in the case where you want to use, well, a whiteboard. It doesn't let you mark-up something you're working on.

         

        Microsoft really needs to fix this - I simply don't understand how they've missed this!

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