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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Bill
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You won't beat slack until you can do this. and pop out the meeting or screen share apart from the chat agent. If you don't beat slack, you will not win this war.
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Anonymous
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This is the 'Slack Killer' feature guys. Developers need to be able to draw on a shared screen. We cant spend all day saying 'no, the 14th row down inside the 3rd set of braces.....'
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Shahin Kohan commented
Please add this. Zoom.us has this ability and it is a must. Should be on top of your list.
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Anonymous
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We are moving to Teams from Slack, and yes we need this feature.
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Patrick Seurre
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Is there an ETA on this?
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Anonymous
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Zoom, Slack, Goto Meeting all have this. Essential for collaboration
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Mae Berrei
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Please add texts as well -- type instead of draw on the whiteboard
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Chris
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Please add the feature asap! There's no point in switching from slack to teams if this basic functionality doesn't exist. It's essential for remote work and collaborating.
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Dan
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Design teams NEED this functionality for collaboration. Would vault this to the top of my Teams requests now that we're relying on Meetings more heavily.
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Anonymous
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The tool from Presentation Assistant is $50, however I think Teams should have this ability included such that it really is a Team, collaborative environment where virtual meetings room features that are not application specific exist. Yes you can draw on PPT, yes you can highlight in Excel ... but this would enable drawing on any application.
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Kyle
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Lot's of people in our organization are bummed this is not available. Seems to be the most noticeable gap between Teams and Slack so far.
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Mohammad Baker
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Nothing so far?!
Strange for something should come by default
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Anonymous
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I fully agree we need this for better collaboration. If not we'll just use Slack.
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kira
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want to second this request!
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ken jett
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wow, was so excited to return to msft platform from slack, but can't draw on screen, deal breaker for now
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Darryl Hodgins
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Please make this happen, sooner than later. Our entire development team is being asked to work remotely, and this is a major stumbling point.
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Amy Lo
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We need this!
We can't use Teams as a collaboration tool for meetings because participants can't actually collaborate together at the same time.
"Request access" functionality only allows one other user to take control of the computer, and that's not the same thing. Taking control of someone's computer is stepping over the boundaries a bit. -
David Benjamin
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Please implement this. Our company faces roll out challenges because this basic feature is not included. As mentioned in other comments this is standard in so many other products that people use (eg Slack, Webex, Zoom etc), it not being here means that others refuse to use the Teams video calling features, and in general bash Teams for not having basic functionality.
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Anonymous
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+1 Agree we need this ASAP
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Anonymous
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Teams cannot replace any of the existing screen-sharing software without this absolutely essential functionality!
I know SfB telemetry said it wasn't a popular feature, but that's because SfB wasn't a good collaboration/meetings tool.
ALL of the mainstream meeting/collab tools (Webex/Bluejeans/Zoom/GoToMeeting) have this by default. It's one of the unskippable fundamental requirements. Prioritise this or lose marketshare - If you don't understand this then you don't understand your primary market.