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Claudiu1265
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Sep 01, 2023

Teams annotations interact with background

Hi so I've been talking to some of my team about the collaborative annotation features in teams and there's one thing that's stumped us.

 

When you turn on annotation mode this popup appears:

The only problem is that there is no button anywhere to "interact with background"?

 

Based on this blog post the feature was supposed to have been rolled out by mid-August, so what are we missing?

Version is 1.6.00.22378 for what it's worth.

 

Cheers!

 

  • afammartino's avatar
    afammartino
    Copper Contributor

    When I click "Interact with Screen" I can no longer see the annotations. Is this expected? If so is there a setting that lets me see annotations while I interact with my screen?

  • midnitexsonata's avatar
    midnitexsonata
    Copper Contributor

    It's now November and I am having the same issue. I don't have the option to interact with the background after starting annotations. Help!

  • We're having the same issue.... there is no "interact with background" button or menu option. My workaround is this: a) unpin the controls that appear when screen sharing is started. In my case at least, this prevents the screen sharing controls from disappearing when annotations are enabled. b) turn on annotations, c) annotate some stuff, d) when you want to interact with the background, turn off annotations, e) interact with the background, f) when you're done interacting with the background, turn annotations back on. Any annotations that were active when you turned annotations off will re-appear.

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