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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Marc
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This is vital. Please hurry up and catch up to all your competitors.
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Marina Ivanova
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Our team is considering switching from Slack to teams, and drawing on shared screen is one Slack feature we would miss very much.
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Jim
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This is an essential feature. Please add as soon as possible.
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KH
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Every other VC platform that I have used has this feature. Its fundamental. I am amazed that Teams is missing this feature. We are forced to do all kinds of work arounds like screen grabing and switching back and fourth. It wastes time, and money. Please add this to be competitive with other VC providers.
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Craig
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Amen. Was just in a Teams Meeting, and really miss this feature from Slack.
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Anonymous
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Please add drawing functionality to shared screen meeting options, to allow our collaborative meetings to, at a minimum, rise to the level of functionality of our previous communication platform (a platform that has been replaced by Teams). Thank you for taking this recommendation into consideration.
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Anonymous
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Ditto. I used GoToMeeting for years. When we switched to Skype I was surprised to find that participants didn't have the ability to point and or draw on a shared screen short of sharing the mouse of the presenter, which is slow and awkward. When I heard about Teams I was hopeful that this had been included. Used Teams for first meeting yesterday and was disappointed. Please move this way up on your list of things to add. Otherwise I thought Teams was great.
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Anonymous
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I'm really surprised Teams can't do this already? It seems like a basic requirement, and I would agree it needs to be a priority.
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Mel
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Definitely functionality that is required. Please make this a priority.
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Amy Carnaghi
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I share the comments along with our whole Product Experience Design department at HMH. Please add this and move it up in your backlog.
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Maki
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My company recently switched over from Slack to Microsoft Teams. In Slack we used the drawing capabilities while screen sharing our layout in source files (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) for live, collaborative workshops. This is one of our vital part of our job tasks. We had a 'Ask the Experts' session and they said to use whiteboard or use InVision or third party apps. These don't work because 1) Whiteboard doesn't allow for us to screen share our layout in native software allowing us to edit in real-time 2) using apps like InVision would mean we have to save out our layouts to un-editable format prior to meetings which is cumbersome, and 3) #1 and 2 above prohibits spontaneous, live, collaborations that Teams app is suppose to offer. I see this is in the backlog, but when is this scheduled to move to implementation?
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Tim Gilchrist
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Hi, I'm a teacher who is using teams in the lockdown. I use powerpoint to present my lessons (as I did in school) and I like to be able to draw on my powerpoints to explain things. As a Physics teacher modelling calculations is key. At school I use a smart board and that works well. At the moment the only way I've have been able to replicate this is to be signed on to teams on my Mac and iPad simultaneously. Then if I share my ipad screen and run powerpoint on the ipad I can annotate it using my apple pencil. The issue is that sometime it works fine and sometimes the lag between me doing anything and the student's screens updating is so long (15 s plus) that it becomes unusable.
When you add this functionality can you make sure it doesn't lag? Please make sure you role it out to the ipad version as well because apple pencils on ipads are a great UI! -
Gregg Havens
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When remote instructing it is VITAL to have a way or ways to annotate a Power Point Slide during the presentation. I need to underline, Highlight, Draw circles or squares around particular areas of the slide. I also need ways to erase each or all of the annotations.
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John Raiten
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Yes, I vote for this, use it in Zoom, it's needed.
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David Harris
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I vote in favour.
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Christian S
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Used this regularily in Skype for business, also the "stamp" function which proved very usefull, e.g. when presenting different topics and participants should mark those, they are in favor of. ideally it would be even better than in skype by alonging to draw on any shared content.
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Claudia Price
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I see a whiteboard feature in there now as a share option, isn't that what is being asked for? I'm not sure when it was added though, I just noticed it this week.
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Tony Campos
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NEEEEED This. As a graphically focused career I am handicapped in my communication ability during meetings
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Nicola
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this is a must for us. We have moved from another platform to this and have offices globally. We need this function!
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Jason
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Must have for our entire company!