How to Annotate Screen in Microsoft Teams using ZoomIt

In this step-by-step tutorial video, learn how to annotate your screen while screen sharing in Microsoft Teams. In this tutorial, I walk through how to both get and use the ZoomIt tool to annotate your screen while screen sharing in Teams. With annotations, you can draw, insert shapes, insert text, and zoom on your screen while presenting to help your audience follow along more easily.
Free Annotation Tools:
- Zoom it (Recommended): docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi...
- DemoHelper: tools.stefankueng.com/DemoHel...
Freemium Annotation Tools:
- Epic Pen: epic-pen.com
Paid Annotation Tools:
- Presentation Assistant: www.presentation-assistant.com...
- Presentation Marker: www.goldgingko.com/screen-marker/
- Ink2Go: ink2go.org/
- HeyeLighter: www.aureosoft.com/heyelighter....
PowerPoint tutorial deck shown in this video: 1drv.ms/p/s!AmxrofZZlZ-whJxdQ...
0:00 Introduction
1:18 Download & install ZoomIt screen annotation tool
2:41 Zoom in & out
4:35 Live Zoom in & out to interact with applications while zoomed
5:38 Drawing tools & adjusting colors
7:02 Adjust drawing tool thickness
7:24 Undo last entry
7:44 Erase all annotations
7:59 Center cursor
8:11 Text annotations
9:10 Insert rectangle
9:35 Insert straight line
9:54 Insert ellipse
10:05 Insert arrow
10:20 Open white or black sketch pad
10:54 Save or copy annotations
11:27 Start break timer
12:27 System tray short cuts
13:36 Other annotation tools
14:39 Showing annotations in Teams
15:21 Wrap up
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[@KevinStratvert]

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[@cbaide100]

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[@KevinStratvert]

Thanks for the note Carlos!

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[@davidingham2216]

Excellent video. A surprise that MS doesn't include this functionality in Teams as standard

[@KevinStratvert]

I'm sure it'll come at some point. Right now it's just another feature request on the backlog.

[@ryanlawrence8522]

Agree we have to bear in mind the rediculous number of other requests still in the queue

[@JonathanNeilRhodes]

@@KevinStratvert Should be at the front of the backlog :) Annotation is a basic requirement for meetings.

[@radekou]

@@JonathanNeilRhodes Fully agree. I imagine that if I asked MS to build me a house, and found out there are no windows, they would be like "submit an idea to our community and ask others to vote it up". :))

[@KevinStratvert]

@@radekou agreed, hopefully it gets done soon. ha, nice example with the windows. Although it turns out that it's also missing a bathroom and a kitchen. Which one do you start with? 😁

[@thepurpletulip5668]

Kevin, thank you so much for this video. I teach small children so this will be really helpful when I am teaching math. You have saved my life.

[@HaNgo-yi9ox]

can they see the annotation?, i recorded my lesson and i cant see any annotation that i did on my shared screen

[@mikenorton7262]

Very helpful. Made me realize my version was out-of-date. Even your version needs to be updated - there is now an option to do a Screen Record (Ctrl-5) and ScreenSnip (Ctrl-6)

[@CeliaAlvesSolveExcel]

Thank you for this tutorial, Kevin. I already used Zoomit but there were a couple of things that I didn't know how to do and you covered them all!

[@KevinStratvert]

Glad it helped!

[@seemarani-sk3et]

i was going to make a video for youtube channel but then i saw your video and it gave me boost. thank you so much 🙂

[@chavitabass]

Great video! I just loved it... I was looking for this to make presentations more interactive, like a kind of whiteboard. A huge thanks, Kevin!!

[@KevinStratvert]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rhefguillermo2637]

Omg i needed this for my Thermodynamics report. Thank you!

[@Kev_Manus]

As Always, So informative and helpful. You have been a great help since lockdown and working from from home. Cheers, keep it coming

[@shoreline9201]

Thanks Kevin - your videos are very informative and clear. As a teacher I appreciate it

[@celinacosta4529]

Thanks! Your videos are always so professionally done and easy to understand.

[@gilroitto]

This was amazingly informative! Really appreciate to listing of alternatives as well, and your own opinion.

[@kgerman1]

Life changing tool. Thx! Can't wait for this to be embedded into MST.

[@cbelair65]

Excellent presentation Kevin. Easy to follow and I'm all set!

[@sdl9258]

Presentation with colours remains interesting & exciting. Useful in teaching.

[@aldrinpadua28]

Stunning video for making the presentation excellent. Thanks to you for sharing these tricks.

[@lilyshiri6540]

So practical and easy to understand! AMAZING!

[@mustafamerttanoglu-testcha6597]

This video is so helpful, but I can think more traditional video from you along with Microsoft Teams screen annotations. This video is more traditional way to learn annotate your screen while using Screen Sharing choice. I think this looks good. All your tutorials is the best one of the step-by-step tutorials for beginners.

[@mustafamerttanoglu-testcha6597]

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[@lorihurni9683]

Amazing. You just made my job easier. I'm sharing link with my coworkers. Thx.

[@shridharmurthybadiger5743]

Thanks, Kavin, for this best video n exceptional perfect explanation.Was searching for this tool for a long back.

[@lusihong2341]

Super helpful! Thanks for the video to help me prepare my lesson in two days.

[@Adrianong1984]

Your video are so informative and helpful and i always learn new things in Microsoft from you. Can you do more tutorial on Power Automate?

[@to832ggwfes]

Exactly what I needed. Very good quick presentation!!

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

Thank you! Downloaded and now using!

[@essentialbiomechanics9381]

Excellent tool! Thanks for sharing this tip Kevin! Can I use it with a digital table? It's not working for me. Tks in advance for your attention.

[@GAURAVI128]

Your videos always teach something cool and useful🙂

[@alicegivana]

Awesome, I enjoyed listening to you and learning from you, clear and to the point.

[@KevinBuchanan66]

Great video!!! Very useful! I’ve started using ZoomIt in teams meetings, and everyone wanted to know “how did you do that??”

[@marshymars91104]

so amazing! timely for webinar trainings

[@Paul_the_electron]

Yet another great video from you Kevin. Thank you. Do feel a bit conned though. Video title made me think the annotation features were in Teams. My employer does not allow instalation of third party tools on their PCs.

[@KevinStratvert]

Yeah, unfortunately Teams doesn't yet have native annotation tools. Depending on what you're sharing, the app may have annotation tools. For instance, both OneNote and PowerPoint have native annotation tools. Hope that helps!

[@LeandroOliveira-hs6su]

Thanks. A really, really useful video!

[@711Slurpies]

Love your content. Your tips and tricks are so easy to follow! Can you do perhaps do a video on how to get a PC to become fast again? :( My laptop has gotten a bit slower over the years and I'm hearing the fan getting louder. Thanks for your amazing vids!

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Is your laptop using Hard Disk. If yes, then u get 10 times speed improvement, if you replace your Hard Disk to a SSD.

[@CyberMedics]

Fantastic Kevin! Thank for the insight on the zoomit tool.

[@HippieP629]

Very nice. Thanks a lot, Kevin. Can't wait to use this

[@lzz3202]

Thank you, you saved my life.

[@idhamaljaroo4708]

Very enlightening, awesome, thank you so much!!! :)

[@johnvodopija1743]

This will be a great help. Thank you 👍😎🇦🇺

[@nidaamarrash943]

thank you so much! do we to go to the application each time we want to use it? can we annotate and zoom in in the same time?

[@user-vc1ch7wq9f]

Thank you! That's really helpful.

[@glendavizcaino8248]

Useful video! thanks a lot, Kevin!

[@thaddeogarcia4608]

wow!!!! thanks!!! nice tools for my online lectures....

[@zonbelle]

Super well done. You are a great teacher.

[@kamalamalarm]

Thank You So much for ur knowledge sharing Sir

[@billj8968]

Thanks so much Kevin - yet another brilliant video (your videos are so great I subscribed from both my accounts!!) - I'd love to see more plug-in applications/extensions for Microsoft platforms - always on the look out for these useful plug-ins! You should have a quiz via Forms on what we'd like to see next.....or not! Have a great day Kevin!

[@KevinStratvert]

Sure thing Bill. I was wondering how my subscriber count increased so much 🤣 I'll use Polls more to see what people want to see next. My backlog of video ideas keeps growing and I can only produce them so fast!

[@billj8968]

@@KevinStratvert Another idea to grow your subscriber base - give each new subscriber a cookie from the Kevin cookie company???? Have a great weekend!!

[@zonbelle]

@@KevinStratvert I would be curious to know the percetage of "teachers" here. May certainly be one of the reasons.

[@edgarpereda6049]

Thank you sir Kevin for this very informative video.

[@samanthanixon5367]

Thank you so much for this super helpful video! I am a speech therapist who had previously used annotate with Zoom for my therapy sessions with elementary aged students with much success and now needs to transition to Teams. If I have ZoomIt running and share my screen during a Teams meeting, can I give control to a student so that they can annotate on the shared screen or will I be the only one who can draw or type on it?

[@binodbaral7325]

Thank you so much. Great video

[@balvinderkaur4181]

Thanks for all the useful information you share through your videos. Can we use these annotation tools to check assignment in Teams?

[@kimberlynelson1732]

Thanks that was very useful. Can you make a video showing how to view students one screen at all times, while presenting on the other screen?

[@notsowimpycoder3113]

this was a good video kevin. i would request you to make a video on how to integrate kahoot with teams and how to go about assigning an assignment using kahoot.

[@romananalytics2182]

This is something I have been looking for !! thank you

[@coolvicky2301]

Super helpful and crisp !!

[@diagnembaye423]

Good to watch this video tutorial. Thanks.

[@mr.majdialhurimy2839]

Thanks for the great job. Excellent Video.

[@MuhammedKLM]

Very informative. Thank you

[@professordavid2008]

Hi Kevin. Congratulations on your success with KZbin full time! I’m concerned about potential bullying in Microsoft Teams as in a secondary school teacher. Is there a way that students can mute others in chat?

[@bratwurstfan]

Excellent and so much helpful!

[@newmandoss]

its really wow factor!!!!! thanks kevin

[@sughosh100]

Thank you so much. This was very helpful.

[@ElPetoChan]

Super Nice Tool, Thanks!!!!!!

[@Roundus360]

Very very useful........ Will try it out on my next presentation.

[@norahhutabarat9201]

this is so helpful!!! thank alot Kevin!

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Thanks!! This video is awesome! 😊

[@CA-wi6zn]

You are the best! Thanks

[@thilinaalagiyawanna3680]

Thank you very much. Great help

[@hasankhazi7081]

You are awesome, one request please create a video on setting up infra for Microsoft power automate

[@KevinStratvert]

Here's an intro video I did on Power Automate: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnWyZYxqlqmMjtk Let me know if there's more that you want to see covered.

[@zecaldeira]

Thanks for your video, it's really a good tutorial on how to use this tool. Wondering if there's anything similar to highlight the mouse cursor? I think you're using the OBS functionality, I would like to have something in Teams to allow do that as well.

[@mihai_chindris]

great how-to! thanks!

[@bobbybenj]

Nice video! I wish someone would make a video on How to Annotate Screen in PowerPoint using Zoomit.

[@Boki9]

wow thank you so much, this was really great

[@azmahamid]

Awesome ... thank you so much Kevin

[@julesmacmillan1561]

Hi Kevin - thanks so much for your videos - love your energy. Do you know if there is anyway to annotate when sharing a powerpoint through the Browse option as ive found its the only way to share slides and still see the participant bar and chat and their Teams videos at the same time as my slides?

[@mohitmaddyscorpion]

Hey Kevin, recently subscribed to your channel. Thanks for sharing these videos, these are really helpful. One thing I like about your videos is that you cover generic questions that we as end user seek answers for. I have been wondering how to annotate screen in MS Teams, and this video would help me a lot. However I have one question, can I annotate a screen that is being shared by other participant over the Teams meeting? Zoom allows the annotate feature within the app, I just wanted to check if ZoomIt would allow the same in MS teams meetings? OR this only allows to annotate over the screen I share myself over Teams meeting but not other participants?

[@angelakephart2000]

Hi, I am also looking to be able to annotate a screen that is being shared by another participant. Did you get your answer?

[@jainendraraghuvanshi8290]

thank you very much this is really very useful tool

[@awadosman4499]

Fantastic video mate. We recently migrated from Zoom to Teams and I have been struggling with the lack of annotation tools. Why doesn’t Team have it?

[@CharlesVoth]

Thanks for this!

[@vasudevgadgil8418]

Very informative and nice one!

[@samtecheno6681]

you are best teacher keep it up

[@jonathanjaranson3590]

Kevin, great video. Do you know when Dynamic View will be released for teams? thanks!

[@samschannelish]

Hi Kevin, this is a fantastic presentation-tutorial of a great tool that I have been dreaming of but haven't had the time to see if it existed. Thank you. But, a question: why can't I find/use my mouse pointer/cursor when in the timer mode?

[@mptmellis]

Would love to see a video on how to use the new breakout rooms function in Teams. Thank you.

[@zanyjaney1]

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[@KevinStratvert]

Will do! I know Teams is working on formal breakout rooms support. Keep an eye out for an update soon.

[@mathclass2299]

Excellent video.

[@sergioibarra6796]

You are amazing man than you so much!!

[@noxplayer-rt9tj]

By attaching the "StrokeIt" program to ZoomIt and configuring mouse gestures as key combinations, e.g. CTRL + 4 as Z, etc., you can control zoom, drawing ("CTRL + 2" as D), color changes (keys R, G, B, O, Y, P ) only with the mouse.

[@mercyannpayumo5459]

Amazing! Thanks!

[@christinel9595]

Super helpful!

[@aaronbussey3856]

This is awesome!

[@rafaelvejarano]

Awesome video. 👍

[@seyoungchoi1973]

Thank you! This is very helpful! Everything works except for the Tab + Left click.... No ellipses. Is there anything I can do to fix it? Also, I heard that earlier versions allowed for the draw tool to be compatible with touchscreen, but for me only the mouse works. Is there an update to this?

[@jhonshvh2939]

You deserve more subscribers

[@TheColoursofMathematics]

Great help

[@Denielgunz]

You are the best!!!