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Kaushal-Mehta
Microsoft
MicrosoftNow in public preview: Collaborative Annotation
Description
Annotation—powered by Microsoft Whiteboard—helps you collaborate on things, like a design or presentation, while sharing your screen in a Teams meeting.
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Hi all, in the first I was happy when I read the announcement and thought finally, especially for the feature of collaborative cursors.
But then I evaluated it the first time in the preview. Will the feature stay in the state, that a screenshot of your shared screen is taken once you start the annotation feature, and all users are only annotating that frozen, static picture? Expectation would have been that it allows annotation and collaborative cursors on your live shared content. With just using a screenshot the feature is boring.
also, a colleague of mine is receiving such message on this laptop with windows 10:
"This device does not support annotation"
Emily KirbyMicrosoft
MicrosoftHi MatthiasRodler ,
Thank you for trying out the feature and for the feedback!
For the click-through experience, ie. the "screenshot" of your screen, we are hoping to add this in a future version of collaborative annotation.
Regarding the error message your colleague is seeing, I think it may be due to the "GPU setting" being checked. Can you have them take a look and see if that's it? We just added this limitation to the public docs as well. Thanks!
Troubleshooting
If you don’t see the option to use annotation in a meeting:
1. In the upper-right corner of Teams, select Settings and more > Settings > General.
2. Under Application, uncheck the box next to Disable GPU hardware acceleration (requires restarting Teams).
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-annotation-while-sharing-your-screen-in-teams-876ba527-7112-437e-b410-5aec7363c473
- Having it live would be nice, or at least a quick keyboard shortcut to turn it on or off. I would also like to allow people viewing the screen to be given the ability to start the annotation. I know you want this all the time, but we do a lot of code pairing over teams, and this could be very helpful when trying to point something out to the presenter.
