Forum Discussion
Sharing Screen & Annotation during a Teams Meeting
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?
- 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 Really needs to have annotation to effectively compete with Zoom.
I absolutely agree. The only way to do that is to share the whole desktop and use Pen option in power point. SE_TCH
- 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.
- That's Bad ! Thanks@adam deltinger
Unfortunately without the ability to import an image or images the whiteboard in Teams is seriously lacking in functionality. adam deltinger
- Just imagine it being 2021, the whole world has had an entire year of remote work and conference calls, and have a web conference product that still doesnt support this.
I am amazed their own internal msft userbase isnt demanding this... maybe they dont work collaboratively?
- Adam Can you please give us an update on when this functionality will be available without whiteboard or third party apps? It is critical for corporate training to transition away from Webex.
- Or in third party Apps similar to whiteboard
- would u recommend me any other app like whiteboard plz? Juan
DAmmar2370 - if you want to annotate whatever you're displaying, then my suggestions is DON'T USE TEAMS until MSFT fixes this issue.
Zoom's solution works really well, Webex less-so in my experience.Whiteboard apps simply don't fix this problem except in the case where you want to use, well, a whiteboard. It doesn't let you mark-up something you're working on.
Microsoft really needs to fix this - I simply don't understand how they've missed this!
Nikitha-MSFTMicrosoft
jcgonzalezmartin - Do you have any more suggestions?
something like vuforia right in a teams video call would be helpful Nikitha-MSFT
