Forum Discussion
Sharing Screen & Annotation during a Teams Meeting
The issue with annotating in PowerPoint is that it allows only the presenter to do that. In WebEx and other tools the participants can annotate too, and also use the pointer tool - how can that be achieved in Teams? The whole point of meeting technology is to enable interaction between people and so far it seems that Teams is far behind in that.
Has anyone figured out how participants can annotate yet? Betty2015
Lucky our company has decided to prolong Zoom contract. As Teams is not at all fitting requirements for engineering groups.
- In our practice, lacking an annotation option is a major weakness. It's sad this has had no development since the question was raised in this string in March 2020. We are forced to use zoom to collaborate in the architectural design field. Why the resistance?
- We just switched to teams meetings from slack. I went looking for the pen and felt like my hands were tied behind my back. I hope this is fixed soon.
xeran ,
My company is considering Zoom and Teams. We are a microsoft shop.....but the annotation feature is causing me to lean toward Zoom.....That's how useful it is....I literally use it in almost every single meeting I have.
- SE_TCH you’re making some steep assertions, here. Are you a significant name in the solutions landscape? How have you determined that lacking a particular implementation of annotations makes a solution entirely non-competitive? Pretty small piece, judging by the massive MAU Teams Meetings currently has.
GingerKelly
I don't think upgrading is the answer. ... Teams is competing with Zoom, WebEx, etc. and they all have this feature. I've used most of them and Zoom's capability is pretty good. I use it a lot when demoing software or training. This should 100% be core capability in Teams. Period. You're not a credible provider of web conferencing / online collaboration without this feature.Agree, the only reason i have not switch from zoom to microsoft team as a online educator is the lack of the screen annotation feature.
- I just made the move from Apple products (hardware and software) and have appreciated the Inter connectivity of the office365 products. Teams works great until I realized there is no annotation feature... I am new to this forum and apologize if this is posted the wrong way, but wanted to express my frustrations as well.
