Forum Discussion
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?
Only in the whiteboard you can add to the meeting!
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.
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.
I absolutely agree. The only way to do that is to share the whole desktop and use Pen option in power point. SE_TCH
Mohammed_Al-Baroodi Or add text boxes through the developer tab into your PowerPoint to type into
- Thanks for the suggestion Mohammed_Al-Baroodi , but this really is not a solution. Say someone is sharing an infographic they are working on. .. you want to highlight some areas for improvement.
In zoom, easy.
In Teams, nothing.
MS has half-built a product that is well integrated with its other tools. This is not about zoom - it is about the fact that the users (simply can't do our job in teams). Even ancient old Webex does annotation, for crying out loud.
So, a message to Microsoft.
This feature is not negotiable for this kind of tool.I figured out how to annotate in Powerpoint. Just share the Powerpoint as a window in Microsoft Team, not by clicking Browse and finding the file. It is till smooth and easy. MS teams detects there is a window, or a tab, open anyway.
You can access the annotation pens from the bottom left corner.
For me it does the job for the time being.
- I agree it probably should be a Microsoft option> I know there's the old ZoomIt tools (Sysinternals - a Microsoft toolkit) but it's pretty clunky. I'm hearing a lot of this concern that ZOOM can do it but TEAMS can't.
I think there's a Uservoice but doesn't have a lot of traction. Hopefully it'll be something they add in time as they've been targeting a lot of the Zoom features to try to keep users from migrating to Zoom instead.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/37722985-screen-sharing-markup-annotation
