Ability for meeting participants to draw on shared screen
Participants in a a meeting with a shared screen should have the ability to draw (with their mouse or touch pen) on the shared screen. E.g. if a PowerPoint is being presented, participants would have their designated color to draw with (to distinguish who is drawing) and a mouse pointer in the same color. The could then point and draw for the other participants in the meeting to see. This would be similar to a whiteboard, only it would be for drawing on top of a shared screen.
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Thanks for providing the feedback. This feature is in our backlog. We’ll update when we have more details to share.
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Kristin
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A feature that would allow teachers to annotate on pdfs while using Teams would be much appreciated!
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Anonymous
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But what about drawing on a PDF or on the Internet when sahring. If it is juts for Power point then It' not so useful
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Anonymous
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We are considering a move from Slack to Teams for a larger development team (>100 developers). Developers love the ability to draw and mark on the shared screen and try to insist on not moving before this is available. So it would be really good to have it in teams as well.
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Anonymous
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I am an educator preparing for remote instruction. Last spring our school used Zoom for our distance learning program but decided to switch to Teams for the upcoming year. As I was perusing the features in Teams, I discovered that it lacked the feature enabling the user to draw on a PDF document while sharing a screen. This is an absolutely crucial tool for teaching remotely. I would be extremely grateful if you could expedite adding this capability. Thank you!
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Jon Ueland
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This is a critical need for our faculty and the only lacking feature that would drive us to use Zoom instead of Teams in our distance learning programs. I'm sure you folks are absolutely swamped right now, trying to make Teams as feature-rich as possible for the Edu sector, and we really appreciate all of the improvements you have made in such a short timeframe. Would be grateful if you could move this feature to the top of your list of improvements. Thank-you!
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Harley Santana commented
Slack has this feature. We must have the ability to do so asap
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Anonymous
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It helps for the clarifications and comments
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Anonymous
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How is this not implemented yet? Slack and Zoom both have it and have had it for a long time. It is crucial during meetings. I wish you had implemented this instead of spending resources on a virtual view of all users sitting in a lecture hall next to each other...
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Horacio
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I think this feature is crucial for the whole community. You should hear the users and not try to impose your solutions (whiteboard solution).
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Anonymous
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Need this feature, absolutly
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Anonymous
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Need this feature, absolutely
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Jerry Baum
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Make this happen. This is a primary weakness of the Teams meeting platform and is actually holding some of my clients back from making the migration from Zoom.
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na
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Nice feature to have
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les eerkes
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Please put this on top of the list. In the Architecture and Engineering industry, We need the ability to draw in real time on a shared screen showing a pdf document. without this feature, we really can't use teams.
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Anonymous
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Need to get this one in, or you'll still be losing out to Zoom. In the Learning and Development world, this feature is a showstopper.
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Jim
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Definitely need it. We like teams but are required to use Slack or Zoom because this feature is lacking. It makes communication much more difficult to not be able to point or highlight areas for discussion on someone else's screen. It takes me 30 seconds to try to describe what part of the screen I'm talking about in our group. It really is a huge issue that forces us to use another app in our industry.
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Vadim Panov
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Absence of this ability is one of the reasons why a lot of users are still sitting in Slack.
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[Deleted User]
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It's been over half a year now since last response. Any update?
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Vit
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Hello,
is there already a possibility to draw on someone's presented screen?
Its a crucial tool for us.
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Anonymous
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I'm an elementary special education teacher, and kids sometimes need more intense visual prompts than the cursor can provide. It would help me to provide effective instruction to be able to write directly on a shared screen. This is a hard time for my students and I would like to make online instruction more effective.