

Save - saves the shared screen with annotations to a file.

Clear - delete annotations for everyone, or participants only.Mouse - deactivates annotation for your mouse and switch it to your standard pointer.There are a few convenient tools to learn first: To start annotating, select the tool, and use your mouse cursor. You can close the toolbar by clicking on the small X in the left or right upper corner. While the Whiteboard starts with annotation tools open, during a screen share, you activate annotation tools by selecting View Options, then Annotate. You can restrict annotations to only the user sharing the screen and allow saving shred screens wit annotations. By default, it's allowed, but you cannot turn it on during a meeting if it's turned off, so if you plan to use annotations, check under Settings, Meeting, Meeting Basic, and verify that it's turned on. The Host's account needs Annotations to be enabled on the web portal. The Whiteboard is one type of screen share, but others include your desktop, an application (like a document or web browser), an iPhone, or an iPad screen. AnnotationsĪnnotations are drawing tools for drawing, marking up, commenting, or highlighting a screen share. If your settings allow annotations for all participants, they can annotate on the Whiteboard with the Host. When you stop screen sharing, the Whiteboard closes and saves a file. Your Whiteboard is still open, and when you change back to it with screen share, all of your markups will be just as you left them. For example, if switching from the Whiteboard to a screen share of your desktop. While you have your Whiteboard open, you can switch to a different screen share. If you used multiple pages, they're all saved.

#Zoom annotate feature windows#
It's usually in the MyDocuments folder on Windows or in Documents on a Mac. A screenshot file is saved in the Zoom folder created by Zoom on your computer. To close the Whiteboard, stop your screen share. Click on the image, and you add a new blank page, and arrows appear to navigate from one page to another. In the lower right corner is an icon for adding a page. While you only see one screen, the Whiteboard has an option to add additional screens. In Zoom meetings, the Host and co-hosts can start screen sharing with the Host Only setting while in webinars, hosts and panelists can start screen sharing with this option. Just change Who can share form All Participants to Host-Only. As a host, you can prevent screen sharing by others in your account page from Settings, Meeting, In Meeting Basic. The default Zoom settings for hosting a meeting allow participants in a meeting to start a screen share. The meeting host or any participant who can start a screen share starts the Whiteboard by using the Share Screen icon, then selecting Whiteboard. Windows, Mac, Android, iPad, and Linux are all supported. The iPhone doesn't support Whiteboard but check on the Zoom support site regularly to see if changes. I'll go over the annotation tools in a but, but let me point out a few things about the Whiteboard.Īs long as Zoom displays the Whiteboard option in screen sharing, you can start a whiteboard. Screen sharing the Whiteboard opens the annotation toolbar, which includes a convenient set of tools you use to mark up the Whiteboard. Open the Whiteboard and share it, and you share a blank screen similar to a blank sheet of paper. The Whiteboard is a built-in tool when you start a screen share.
