Zoom’s in-meeting product features allow you to add annotations on your screen during your video calls — a tool for remote teams to easily brainstorm and collaborate. Meeting participants can add annotations while screen sharing as a viewer or the one that started sharing their screen. You can also use annotation tools when sharing or viewing a whiteboard.
Note: The meeting host can disable attendee annotation. If you do not have the annotation option, confirm that the host has not disabled annotation.
After sharing your screen or whiteboard, annotation controls will display. If you don't see the annotation tools, click Annotate (if you are sharing your screen) or Whiteboard (if you are sharing a whiteboard).
While viewing a shared screen or shared whiteboard, click View Options then Annotate at the top.
You will see these annotation tools:
Note: The Select, Spotlight, and Save options are only available if you started the shared screen or whiteboard.
If you started the shared screen or whiteboard, click More in the screen share controls for these annotation settings:
Windows:
Mac:
Linux:
The following annotation tools' availability depend on whether you are using a phone or tablet.
If you started sharing a whiteboard, you will see the following annotation tools:
You can choose to allow participants to annotate on your shared screen and whether you want participants' names to appear next to their annotations.
Note: You cannot annotate when sharing your entire screen into the meeting via iOS device. You can only annotate when sharing a portion of your screen.
The annotation tools available are dependent on whether you are on an iPad or iPhone.
If you started sharing a whiteboard, you will see the following annotation tools:
Tablet
Phone
You can choose to allow participants to annotate on your shared screen and whether you want participants' names to appear next to their annotations.