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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Dave Coleman
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This is a feature that is sorely missed when moving from Slack to Teams. It may even prevent full adoption of Teams in our organization. Please consider it, or something functionally equivalent. Whiteboard plugin wont cut it.
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Gerwin Postma
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Its the most used feature in Slack, make it available in Teams !
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Anke
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We are using this on a daily basis in meetings and it is one the main resons why are not switching over completely to teams.
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Stachia Clancy
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Please please please get this added. What's the latest update? Will we see this in 2020 or even 2021?
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Shmuel Barkin
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Any update on this feature? This a basic feature needed.
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Anonymous
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Must have feature, makes meeting much easier
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Kierstin Arthur
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We need the ability to annotate on content that is shared (powerpoint, word, PDF etc.) for virtual training purposes. Annotation during meetings on pre-made slides is one of the best ways to keep learners actively engaged during training.
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Anonymous
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This would be a fantastic feature - be good to see when this would move off the backlog and get deployed. Slack have a great implementation of this which at present pushes us to use Slack for many interactive sessions - but Teams is a much slicker experience with regards to just about everything else from my experience.
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Anonymous
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@Alex, when is the scheduled to come off backlog and delivered to teams GA?
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Anonymous
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This is something that is needed to highlight on the screen. When I get help from Microsoft Support and share my screen with them they can draw on my screen to show me want to do. This feature should be added to Teams. I think it one of the most asked questions. This should be worked on before Room sitting view. This should be worked on quickly.
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Anonymous
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Adding breakout rooms is a huge step forward, but not having annotate when someone shares their screen like Zoom (or now Webex Meetings) is the biggest thing keeping us from making the jump to using MS Teams full time. It really is a critical tool for virtual, so here's hoping it will be here soon!
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Anonymous
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Shared annotation is critical for engaged online learning. As we're all virtual all the time, this is a top priority for our organization. I hate that we're having to turn to Zoom to get this kind of advanced functionality.
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Yaniree Roman
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Glad to be here
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Chris Young
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+1 We keep our Zoom subscription just for the annotation ability. This is an extremely useful feature and it's surprising that Microsoft has not introduced it yet.
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Juan Manuel Pérez
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Another must have for us..... I don't understand how this was not implemented already.
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Rodrigo
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Are there any updates on this feature? I am looking to switch to teams from zoom but cant until this feature is available
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Jason
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We really need this. We used it heavily on slack, and since the company moved to teams, its the one thing I keep saying "boy I wish I had this feature." Our alternative is taking over someone's screen when trying to guide them verbally becomes too frustrating.
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Amanda
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We need the Live annotation ability!! Teaching first graders virtually and this would allow for much more engagement and an opportunity for teachers to do formative assessments!
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Anonymous
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I read someone in the comment section and they said "Can't understand what is holding Microsoft back on implementing this feature, the other competing team collaborating tools all have it!"
Well, I think Microsoft doesn't know how to do it... that's the only reasonable explanation. This feature should be top priority and it's been suggested since 2017...
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Kyle H
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This is the one issue keeping us from moving our entire team from Slack to Teams. It's such a necessity, I can't see why it isn't implemented yet, unless you're vastly underestimating its importance.