Will Teams add a draw on screen feature when sharing a screen

Anonymous
2020-06-10T21:26:01+00:00

We are financial advisors who like to highlight things on a clients account or plan when having a virtual meeting.  Currently we have to use Go-To Meeting to allow us to draw or highlight data to call it out.  Has MS Teams considered adding a feature to allow users to highlight or draw on a shared screen which may be a document or website?

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-07-06T10:46:19+00:00

    This has now been partially implemented with 'Annotations' (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/teams-developer/sharing-screen-amp-annotation-during-a-teams-meeting/td-p/1253464) which are available when you share your screen.

    However when this is enabled the presenter cannot click on anything, so it's hard to see how this is actually useful. Hopefully this shortcoming will be fixed shortly.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-05-27T21:22:26+00:00

    This is on the roadmap and slated to be generally available June 2022

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=86732

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-20T16:23:04+00:00

    Is Teams planning on coming out with a draw on-screen feature anytime soon? This is becoming a necessity and limits a lot of offices that are already set up on a Microsoft domain. We are having to look into competing programs such as Slack, GTM, and Zoom.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-02T10:26:32+00:00

    I agree.  I don't understand the priorities.

    MS Teams has delivered cool video filters. Whoopee.

    But something really functional like drawing on the shared screen isn't there.  In IT development, we use this kind of thing all the time with our users.  It's how we collaborate on, say, code and do a lot of problem solving/ instruction.  My guess is that lots and lots of other skill sets -- and online classrooms -- do the same kind of thing.  The unimpressive Whiteboard is NOT a replacement.

    That's one of the reasons why people like Slack and Zoom. Why Microsoft hasn't paid attention to those apps ... and what makes them useful and simple to use ... is a mystery.  

    Please add screen drawing.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-01-22T21:07:16+00:00

    It's surprising that this is still not available as a feature. Being able to draw on a screen sharing session is essential in most of my meetings and leads to the team using Slack when we need to do it.

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