check before: 2022-06-07
Product:
Teams, Whiteboard
Platform:
Android, iOS, Mac, mobile, US Instances, Web, Windows Desktop, World tenant
Status:
Launched
Change type:
New feature, Updated message, User impact
Links:
Details:
Updated October 11, 2022: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your patience.
Collaborative Annotation helps you collaborate with others while screen sharing in Teams meetings. For example, if you want to ask for feedback on a design or if you’re working with a group on a project, Collaborative Annotation helps you get work done faster and with more voices included.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86732
[When this will happen:]
Standard: begin rollout in mid-June and expect to complete rollout by late June. - Complete
GCC: begin rollout in early August (previously late July) and expect to complete rollout in late August (previously early August).
GCC-High: begin rollout in late September (previously late August) and expect to complete rollout by late October (previously early October).
DoD: begin rollout in late January (previously late October) and expect to complete rollout in late February (previously early November).
Change Category:
XXXXXXX ...
Scope:
XXXXXXX ...
Release Phase:
General Availability
Created:
2022-05-24
updated:
2022-10-12
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| Date | Property | old | new |
| 2022-10-12 | MC Messages | Updated October 7, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Collaborative Annotation helps you collaborate with others while screen sharing in Teams meetings. For example, if you want to ask for feedback on a design or if you’re working with a group on a project, Collaborative Annotation helps you get work done faster and with more voices included. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86732 [When this will happen:] Standard: begin rollout in mid-June and expect to complete rollout by late June. - Complete GCC: begin rollout in early August (previously late July) and expect to complete rollout in late August (previously early August). GCC-High: begin rollout in late September (previously late August) and expect to complete rollout by late October (previously early October). DoD: begin rollout in late January (previously late October) and expect to complete rollout in late February (previously early November). | Updated October 11, 2022: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your patience.
Collaborative Annotation helps you collaborate with others while screen sharing in Teams meetings. For example, if you want to ask for feedback on a design or if you’re working with a group on a project, Collaborative Annotation helps you get work done faster and with more voices included. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86732 [When this will happen:] Standard: begin rollout in mid-June and expect to complete rollout by late June. - Complete GCC: begin rollout in early August (previously late July) and expect to complete rollout in late August (previously early August). GCC-High: begin rollout in late September (previously late August) and expect to complete rollout by late October (previously early October). DoD: begin rollout in late January (previously late October) and expect to complete rollout in late February (previously early November). |
| 2022-10-12 | MC How Affect | During screenshare, meeting attendees with Presenter roles will see the Annotation button in meeting controls at the top-center of their screen.
To turn on Collaborative Annotation while you're sharing your screen in a meeting, select the pen icon to Start annotation in meeting controls at the top-center of your screen, as shown below: Note: You must be a Presenter role in a meeting to turn on Collaborative Annotation. The red outline around the screenshare will turn blue, indicating Collaborative Annotation mode is on. All participants will see the Microsoft Whiteboard toolset at the top of the shared screen, as shown below. Everyone in the meeting can begin annotating right away in real-time. Collaborative Cursors show the name of every attendee as they annotate and are turned on by default. Collaborative Cursors can be turned off by anyone attending the meeting from the Settings menu in the Collaborative Annotation toolbar. To control who can annotate, the main Presenter can select Only I can annotate and unselect Everyone can annotate from the Settings menu in the Collaborative Annotation toolbar, as shown below: To begin annotating, select one of the tools in the Whiteboard toolset, such as text, Sticky notes, Reaction tags, or digital ink, and begin typing or drawing on the screen. To end the annotation session for everyone, select Stop annotation in meeting controls at the top-center area of your screen. Collaborative Annotation is only available for full-screen sharing, not individual window sharing at this time. Web and mobile users cannot start Collaborative Annotation while sharing content. However, if a desktop user shares the screen and starts Collaborative Annotation mode, web and mobile users are able to participate in annotating as well. Exporting annotations is not supported at this time, but you can take screenshots during the meeting to save annotated content for later if necessary. Meeting rooms using Android-based devices are not supported. | During screenshare, meeting attendees with Presenter roles will see the Annotation button in meeting controls at the top-center of their screen.
To turn on Collaborative Annotation while you're sharing your screen in a meeting, select the pen icon to Start annotation in meeting controls at the top-center of your screen, as shown below: Note: You must be a Presenter role in a meeting to turn on Collaborative Annotation. The red outline around the screenshare will turn blue, indicating Collaborative Annotation mode is on. All participants will see the Microsoft Whiteboard toolset at the top of the shared screen, as shown below. Everyone in the meeting can begin annotating right away in real-time. Collaborative Cursors show the name of every attendee as they annotate and are turned on by default. Collaborative Cursors can be turned off by anyone attending the meeting from the Settings menu in the Collaborative Annotation toolbar. To control who can annotate, the main Presenter can select Only I can annotate and unselect Everyone can annotate from the Settings menu in the Collaborative Annotation toolbar, as shown below: To begin annotating, select one of the tools in the Whiteboard toolset, such as text, Sticky notes, Reaction tags, or digital ink, and begin typing or drawing on the screen. To end the annotation session for everyone, select Stop annotation in meeting controls at the top-center area of your screen. Collaborative Annotation is only available for full-screen sharing, not individual window sharing at this time. Note: Mobile users cannot start Collaborative Annotation while sharing content. However, if a desktop user shares the screen and starts Collaborative Annotation mode, mobile users are able to participate in annotating as well. Annotations for Teams web users is not supported at this time. Exporting annotations is not supported at this time, but you can take screenshots during the meeting to save annotated content for later if necessary. Meeting rooms using Android-based devices are not supported. |
| 2022-10-12 | MC Last Updated | 10/07/2022 19:27:44 | 2022-10-12T00:58:44Z |
| 2022-10-08 | MC Last Updated | 08/05/2022 21:21:16 | 2022-10-07T19:27:44Z |
| 2022-10-08 | MC Messages | Updated August 5, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Collaborative Annotation helps you collaborate with others while screen sharing in Teams meetings. For example, if you want to ask for feedback on a design or if you’re working with a group on a project, Collaborative Annotation helps you get work done faster and with more voices included. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86732 [When this will happen:] Standard: begin rollout in mid-June and expect to complete rollout by late June. - Complete GCC: begin rollout in early August (previously late July) and expect to complete rollout in late August (previously early August). GCC-High: begin rollout in late September (previously late August) and expect to complete rollout by early October (previously early September). DoD: begin rollout in late October (previously late September) and expect to complete rollout in early November (previously early October). | Updated October 7, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Collaborative Annotation helps you collaborate with others while screen sharing in Teams meetings. For example, if you want to ask for feedback on a design or if you’re working with a group on a project, Collaborative Annotation helps you get work done faster and with more voices included. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86732 [When this will happen:] Standard: begin rollout in mid-June and expect to complete rollout by late June. - Complete GCC: begin rollout in early August (previously late July) and expect to complete rollout in late August (previously early August). GCC-High: begin rollout in late September (previously late August) and expect to complete rollout by late October (previously early October). DoD: begin rollout in late January (previously late October) and expect to complete rollout in late February (previously early November). |
| 2022-10-08 | MC End Time | 12/31/2022 08:00:00 | 2023-03-31T09:00:00Z |
| 2022-09-15 | MC prepare | This feature is enabled by default so there is no action needed.
Note: Annotation is powered by Microsoft Whiteboard. If Microsoft Whiteboard is disabled, it will also disable Annotations. Learn More: Enable Microsoft Whiteboard for your Organization ps://support.microsoft.com/office/enable-microsoft-whiteboard-for-your-organization-1caaa2e2-5c18-4bdf-b878-2d98f1da4b24?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad ps://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=8673 | This feature is enabled by default so there is no action needed.
Note: Annotation is powered by Microsoft Whiteboard. If Microsoft Whiteboard is disabled, it will also disable Annotations. Learn More: Enable Microsoft Whiteboard for your Organization https://support.microsoft.com/office/enable-microsoft-whiteboard-for-your-organization-1caaa2e2-5c18-4bdf-b878-2d98f1da4b24?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=86732 |
| 2022-08-27 | MC prepare | This feature is enabled by default so there is no action needed.
Note: Annotation is powered by Microsoft Whiteboard. If Microsoft Whiteboard is disabled, it will also disable Annotations. Learn More: Enable Microsoft Whiteboard for your Organization https://support.microsoft.com/office/enable-microsoft-whiteboard-for-your-organization-1caaa2e2-5c18-4bdf-b878-2d98f1da4b24?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=86732 | This feature is enabled by default so there is no action needed.
Note: Annotation is powered by Microsoft Whiteboard. If Microsoft Whiteboard is disabled, it will also disable Annotations. Learn More: Enable Microsoft Whiteboard for your Organization ps://support.microsoft.com/office/enable-microsoft-whiteboard-for-your-organization-1caaa2e2-5c18-4bdf-b878-2d98f1da4b24?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad ps://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=8673 |
| 2022-08-06 | MC Last Updated | 07/19/2022 21:38:58 | 2022-08-05T21:21:16Z |
| 2022-08-06 | MC Messages | Updated July 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Collaborative Annotation helps you collaborate with others while screen sharing in Teams meetings. For example, if you want to ask for feedback on a design or if you’re working with a group on a project, Collaborative Annotation helps you get work done faster and with more voices included. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86732 [When this will happen:] Standard: begin rollout in mid-June and expect to complete rollout by late June. - Complete GCC: begin rollout in late July and expect to complete rollout in early August. GCC-High: begin rollout in late August and expect to complete rollout by early September. DoD: begin rollout in late September and expect to complete rollout in early October. | Updated August 5, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Collaborative Annotation helps you collaborate with others while screen sharing in Teams meetings. For example, if you want to ask for feedback on a design or if you’re working with a group on a project, Collaborative Annotation helps you get work done faster and with more voices included. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86732 [When this will happen:] Standard: begin rollout in mid-June and expect to complete rollout by late June. - Complete GCC: begin rollout in early August (previously late July) and expect to complete rollout in late August (previously early August). GCC-High: begin rollout in late September (previously late August) and expect to complete rollout by early October (previously early September). DoD: begin rollout in late October (previously late September) and expect to complete rollout in early November (previously early October). |
| 2022-08-06 | MC End Time | 10/31/2022 08:00:00 | 2022-12-31T08:00:00Z |
| 2022-07-20 | MC Messages | Collaborative Annotation helps you collaborate with others while screen sharing in Teams meetings. For example, if you want to ask for feedback on a design or if you’re working with a group on a project, Collaborative Annotation helps you get work done faster and with more voices included.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86732 [When this will happen:] We will begin rollout in mid-June and expect to complete rollout by late June. | Updated July 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Collaborative Annotation helps you collaborate with others while screen sharing in Teams meetings. For example, if you want to ask for feedback on a design or if you’re working with a group on a project, Collaborative Annotation helps you get work done faster and with more voices included. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86732 [When this will happen:] Standard: begin rollout in mid-June and expect to complete rollout by late June. - Complete GCC: begin rollout in late July and expect to complete rollout in early August. GCC-High: begin rollout in late August and expect to complete rollout by early September. DoD: begin rollout in late September and expect to complete rollout in early October. |
| 2022-07-20 | MC Title | Collaborative Annotations on Presenter Shared Screen | (Updated) Collaborative Annotations on Presenter Shared Screen |
| 2022-07-20 | MC Last Updated | 05/24/2022 01:22:26 | 2022-07-19T21:38:58Z |
| 2022-07-20 | MC MessageTagNames | New feature, User impact | Updated message, New feature, User impact |
| 2022-07-20 | MC End Time | 07/30/2022 09:00:00 | 2022-10-31T08:00:00Z |
*starting April 2022
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