Microsoft Whiteboard and Teams
If you've tried to use the preview Whiteboard in Teams, you might have been a bit frustrated by its limitations. Currently, you can 'ink' - but that's about it. If your handwriting (with a mouse, anyway....) is as bad as mine, that's not great if you want to put text on your whiteboard. There also doesn't appear to be a way, from Teams, to export your creation.
But there is a (relatively) easy workaround to get more functionality, it is actually documented in the Microsoft article Use Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams.
Step 1 - install the Windows 10 Microsoft Whiteboard app from the Microsoft Store.
Step 2 - Once it's installed, run the Whiteboard app and sign in with your Office 365 credentials, then close Whiteboard.
Step 3 - Start your Teams meeting, click on the Share button and share a whiteboard (sometimes that menu item isn't immediately visible - scroll to the far right).
Step 4 - Open the Windows 10 Whiteboard app, and you'll see any whiteboards you've created, including the brand-new empty one for the current meeting. You can tell which is which (they all have the same name 'Whiteboard meeting', annoyingly) from the date and time. Click on the newest one, and that will be the one for your current meeting.
You can then use the tools in the native app, and the results will appear in the shared whiteboard in Teams. When you've finished, you can Export the whiteboard from the native app to a PNG file (click on the ... on the item and select Export).
You can also install the Whiteboard app for iOS (though not yet for Android, it would seem). I can't see anyone trying to mark-up on a phone, but an iPad works very well.
Note that you do need to carry out steps 3 and 4 in that order - the 'Home' page on the app doesn't seem to dynamically update itself when a new Whiteboard is created outside of the app.
But there is a (relatively) easy workaround to get more functionality, it is actually documented in the Microsoft article Use Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams.
Step 1 - install the Windows 10 Microsoft Whiteboard app from the Microsoft Store.
Step 3 - Start your Teams meeting, click on the Share button and share a whiteboard (sometimes that menu item isn't immediately visible - scroll to the far right).
Step 4 - Open the Windows 10 Whiteboard app, and you'll see any whiteboards you've created, including the brand-new empty one for the current meeting. You can tell which is which (they all have the same name 'Whiteboard meeting', annoyingly) from the date and time. Click on the newest one, and that will be the one for your current meeting.
You can then use the tools in the native app, and the results will appear in the shared whiteboard in Teams. When you've finished, you can Export the whiteboard from the native app to a PNG file (click on the ... on the item and select Export).
You can also install the Whiteboard app for iOS (though not yet for Android, it would seem). I can't see anyone trying to mark-up on a phone, but an iPad works very well.
Note that you do need to carry out steps 3 and 4 in that order - the 'Home' page on the app doesn't seem to dynamically update itself when a new Whiteboard is created outside of the app.
Comments
Post a Comment