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Add shapes, connectors and text boxes

Please add the ability to add text, draw diagrams using shapes and connectors. Base capability from power point or visio please!

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  • Jason Clapp commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Whiteboard has made some good improvements with pen choices, list, notes, and templates. Problem is you need to be on a Windows touch screen devices or iOS with an Apple Pencil for the best usage. Take a look Mural and the ability to select shapes, icons, lines for connectors, and a wider variety of templates. These features really bridge the gap from users with touch screen/stylus devices and those without. With so many organizations having a mixed environment of Windows / Mac and touch screen / non-touch screen these basic additions would be a HUGE WIN! Our company is a big O365 and Teams user but we are paying for 200 licenses of Mural.

  • Nina commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would love to be able to type with the students on it. It would go much faster with the text boxes. If this feature is already there, please let me know.

  • Andreas Polz commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    agreed. Today, the web/teams version of Microsoft whiteboard looks like the result of a first term student exercise in software development.
    I hear the win10/ipad app is really great, but what I see on the web is ... just too poor to be any useful.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add shapes. Some students need manipulatives when they answer the question(visual )

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Most of these features are available through app, but not through browser, why not?

  • Dino commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Find a way to make Microsoft Paint usable in Teams. Boom, done. :)

  • Dallas commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Most of us in a business context do not have touch screens, using this feature with a virtual pen, mouse and keyboard is painful.

    The desktop client that you can download is not user friendly and very difficult to keep in sync with the meeting and not much help.

    A basic ability to draw out a concept with simple shapes, connectors and text boxes would take this from a 2 to an 8 in my book.

  • Juan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, why would I use whiteboard in teams otherwise!? I cannot believe they rolled this out without these basic features...

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