Drawing overlay over my or anyone's shared presentation

[DMoberg]

If I share a PowerPoint presentation, it would be amazing to draw on top from a tablet, to highlight some things or additional educational info. 

Sharing the PowerPoint directly from the tablet would be an alternative. 

Sharing a picture and drawing an overlay on top of that would be a second alternative. 

If someone else shares a PowerPoint it could be interesting to draw on top of that when asking or answering questions.

Is any of these possible? 

[Jonathan Schulenberg]

Yes. See Annotate in Webex meetings, webinars, events, and training sessions and other search results for annotate.

[DMoberg]

Thanks, I forgot about that feature, can any tablet be used with this feature?

The downside with this is that the annotate feature is quite limitted in drawing capability. It would be amazing to be able to draw in any paint application and let that transparent canvas display on top of the presentation. (maybe synced by autosaving to a file that Webex autoloads and shows on top of the presentation.

Any Webex devs here to comment on that idea?

[Jonathan Schulenberg · Accepted solution]

The link above included search results for annotating from Android and iOS devices.

Cisco won't discuss the product roadmap here since that requires an NDA. You're welcome to upvote or submit an enhancement request; however, I suggest clarifying your proposed solution - and including a business case why it should be prioritized over the thousand other things to do. For example, what do you imagine this "transparent canvas display on top of the presentation" does when the presenter advances to the next slide? Webex has no awareness what is happening within an application; annotations from the previous slide won't make sense overlaid on the next one. And what file format are you proposing for this "autoload and show on top of the presentation"? Something brand new that would require a custom player? This idea doesn't seem well thought out.

Since you mentioned "paint application", for awareness there is also Webex Whiteboard (use in meetings help article) as well as embedded app integrations with popular 3rd-party options such as Miro and Mural (not an endorsement). Webex's native offer should see enhancements throughout this year. (Again, I can't discuss the roadmap here.)

[DMoberg]

Thanks for a great answer. It is true that this is not a very well thought through idea. It was an idea that spurred my mind while presenting a static picture for 1 hour. Being able to draw freely by hand, boxes, undo, write text, clear the overlay, save each overlay and start a new one to discuss a new topic with the same background PPT.

Do whatever you want with this feature idea. Thanks again.