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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!
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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

    • SE_TCH's avatar
      SE_TCH
      Brass Contributor
      Jun 20, 2020
      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.
      • Mohammed_Al-Baroodi's avatar
        Mohammed_Al-Baroodi
        Copper Contributor
        Jun 25, 2020

        SE_TCH 

        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.

         

  • csmithscf's avatar
    csmithscf
    Iron Contributor
    May 12, 2020
    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

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