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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Anonymous
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Why on earth do I have a gallery view option on Teams but no collaborative screen annotation? Who wants or needs gallery view?
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Anonymous
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This should be priority one, the single most important feature teams is missing
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Anonymous
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Otherwise will migrate back to zoom - critical feature.
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Anonymous
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Backlog? come on! with people who need the work and teaching at home..this is very useful feature to point something or add answer to worksheet during the discussion. Backlog until when? Till pandemic is OVER?!
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jbn
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This should be the #1 item in the backlog, especially with working from home. It's ironic that the product name is "Teams", yet our team always has to resort to using Slack when we need to point something out in a screen sharing session during heavy discussions. If you expect Teams to compete with Slack and Zoom, you need to have this basic functionality.
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Mike baker
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any update from MS
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Scott Berger
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Critical. We are an Architecture firm and can't live without this feature that is native on GoToMeeting. I use it multiple hours every single day.
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[Deleted User]
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Please add this feature, we really need it.
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Anonymous
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Most required feature during intense discussions. It should be added soon.
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Chris Webber
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Can you PLEASE add the group annotation functionality on the shared screen?!
It is a glaring shortcoming, especially with the other teleconference options available. Your note about it being in the backlog is from a year ago. I like staying with the MS suite of products, but this is an significant impediment to clear communication and precludes the use of the Teams meetings in any technical team discussion. -
jason Horner
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a quick win here would be to integrate zoomit with teams for a MVP: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit
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Keegan
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Have there been any other discussion about this? Whiteboard is not the same of nearly as useful in most scenarios.
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Stuart
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Come on Microsoft, you were chatting a long time ago about getting this feature. I'm not even aware of a competitor who can't do this. Please just release the development on this even if in Beta
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Anonymous
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If this feature would be implemented, I might be able to persuade my colleagues to switch to Teams.
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Anonymous
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Definitely, one of the key reasons we are using teams only for large meetings/presentations. Slack is our number one choice.
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Sam
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This would be an invaluable asset to teams. Please add the feature!
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CODFISH
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Zoom has had this feature since day zero. Figure it out brand.
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Matthew
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So, it's been a year. Has this moved in the backlog? I tutor programming language studies - and pointing out where a person needs to activate some feature in the IDE by saying verbally, "no, up, up, right ... yeah over there, okay, but up a little. yeah the little yellow arrow, nope a little to the right"
Having to do that over and over until the end of time (been a year) is kaftaesque.
6800 people voted for this feature. Too few? -
Peter Wilcox
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+1
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Rayan El Helou
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The semester just started. Please let us know if this feature is expected to be released anytime very soon.
Thanks!