How Do I Add A Whiteboard To Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Whiteboard App
How Do I Add A Whiteboard To Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Whiteboard offers you a few fun ways to communicate with your team. Here are some tips you should try out in your next meeting. The range of tools available on Microsoft Whiteboard means there’s always a handy trick to discover and make your life easier. With this workaround, you can add a tab in Microsoft Teams for a specific Whiteboard. How to Add Whiteboard to Teams. Using the web or app version of Whiteboard, create a new Whiteboard; With the Whiteboard open, click on the Share button in the upper right (a person with a +) Then click on Create Sharing Link; Copy the sharing link.

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Microsoft Whiteboard is a free-form, digital canvas where people, content, and ideas come together. Whiteboard integration in Microsoft Teams meetings is powered by the Whiteboard web app, which lets Teams meeting participants draw, sketch, and write together on a shared digital canvas.

Users can share a whiteboard to make it available to all participants in a Teams meeting. That same whiteboard is simultaneously available in all the Whiteboard applications on Windows 10, iOS, and the web app.

To turn the Whiteboard app on or off, see Enable Microsoft Whiteboard for your organization. Keep in mind that this setting will enable or disable Whiteboard for your entire organization, and not just for Teams.

Microsoft Whiteboard App

Whiteboard on Surface Hub

Before trying to use Microsoft Whiteboard, make sure that the Whiteboard app is installed on your Surface Hub device. If Whiteboard isn't installed, on the Surface Hub device, go to the Microsoft Store app, and get Microsoft Whiteboard. For more information, see Enable Microsoft Whiteboard on Surface Hub.

More information

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People can view shared whiteboards when they're members of the space or even if they're not members of the space where the meeting is taking place. These guests can include people joining from:

Webex for Windows, Mac, or web who are not space members
Standards based video endpoints (SIP, H.323)
Skype for Business apps
Webex for iPhone, iPad or Android who are space members

How Do I Add A Whiteboard To Microsoft Teams

During a meeting, go to More , choose New Whiteboard, and the new whiteboard is shared in the meeting.

Multiple people can edit the whiteboard at the same time. However, people who have joined from a different app can only view the whiteboard.

Color changes the marker color.
Eraser turns the marker into an eraser to remove edits or click eraser again to select Clear all and remove all edits. You can click undo to restore the edits you just cleared.
Stickies creates and adds stickies. You can add text, change the color, and move the stickies around your whiteboard.
Undo removes your last edit. You can continue to click undo and remove each edit until you return to the last saved whiteboard.
On a shared whiteboard, if someone selects Clear all, undo is unavailable. However, if you select Clear all and nobody else edits the whiteboard, you can click undo to restore the edits.
There's no limit to the size of your whiteboard. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move around the whiteboard. You can use a mouse or a touchpad to zoom in or out on the whiteboard.

You can share an existing whiteboard or annotation. Click All whiteboards , select a whiteboard or annotation, and then click > Share in call

When you're finished, select Done.

Click to stop sharing your whiteboard.