Hi everyone, I often join a meeting on my iPad alongside my laptop in order to share the iPad's screen and draw/annotate on a document. Would it be possible for the other participants to also draw/annotate using a shared document (not directly on the shared iPad's screen ...) ? Thanks in advance for your help. Dominique

Whiteboard is not a suitable solution, engineering teams need to draw on the screen like other screen sharing programs like Zoom. Microsoft needs to add this ASAP... This should be a basic function, if a CAD program is being displayed by one user, another user should be able to sketch on top of it to better articulate their idea.

I agree, this is a valuable feature in Zoom and we use this all the time. Hopefully Microsoft can add this feature very soon. bfulton

Whiteboard is OK but it leaves a lot to be desired if your an engineer, stylist, architect and you want to draw on top of what is being shown on the screen. other programs like Zoom have this feature. One workaround I have found is to us the "Snip and sketch" as a means to take a screen capture of 3D model my fellow engineer is displaying, then I take over as the presenter, I draw using the Snip and Sketch tool to articulate my concept and I stop presenting and the allow the Engineer with the 3D Model CAD to begin presenting again. it is painful but it works, I wish Microsoft would build Snip and Sketch tool into whiteboard, sadly its probably two different dev teams, and they do not talk... Larry166 Christinkecki dvalantin VasilMichev

cframe I agree this needs to be added to MS Teams this year if they want to compete against: 1. SalesForce Slack2. Zoom3. All the others out there The system internals tool is great just for windows based users but you are eliminating: Mac, iOS, Android, Linux & Chrome OS users. Please bring this to MS Teams universal platform.

Just to be clear, I was referring to the live video call and screenshare functionality of Slack, which also has the "users can draw on the presenter's shared documents/code" feature. In any case, many organizations have chosen to make Teams mandatory for video calls, so for those users there simply is no alternative.

Drawing/annotating document during meeting

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cframe
Copper Contributor
Oct 08, 2020
dvalantin, I have found this tool and it has met my needs. Hope it helps!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit
- paulmmluap
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 23, 2021
  cframe does the meeting originator need to install this app? The linked article doesn't explain how it works, but merely gives an example of what it does.
  - ThatJohnGuy
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 02, 2021
    paulmmluap
    Just from reading the description and a couple of - very brief - third party reviews, I think it *only* works for the presenter. I don't see any mention of ability to annotate when someone else is presenting. It's just a way of drawing on your own screen, which if you are sharing your screen would happen to be viewable by the audience.
    
    I realize it's probably not helpful, but if you have Slack available as an alternate medium, that might also be an option for technical discussions.
- PedroNL
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 19, 2021
  cframe
  
  I agree this needs to be added to MS Teams this year if they want to compete against:
  
  1. SalesForce Slack
  2. Zoom
  3. All the others out there
  
  The system internals tool is great just for windows based users but you are eliminating: Mac, iOS, Android, Linux & Chrome OS users.
  
  Please bring this to MS Teams universal platform.
VasilMichev
MVP
Nov 18, 2019
Have you looked into the Whiteboard app? https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-whiteboard-in-microsoft-teams-7a6e7218-e9dc-4ccc-89aa-b1a0bb9c31ee

There are also some third-party apps that do the same, look them up online.
- bfulton
  Brass Contributor
  Aug 12, 2020
  Whiteboard is not a suitable solution, engineering teams need to draw on the screen like other screen sharing programs like Zoom. Microsoft needs to add this ASAP... This should be a basic function, if a CAD program is being displayed by one user, another user should be able to sketch on top of it to better articulate their idea.
  - benisball
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 11, 2021
    It is time for Microsoft to change teams so that design and engineering teams can mark up the screen just like users in Zoom and Webex. I still use Webex because Teams has not yet added drawing features.

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