Guide: Know Who Is Drawing in Zoom on PC and Mobile: Guide
No video conferencing app is complete without screen sharing featureEven Facebook Messenger offers it. So, how can the popular Zoom app lag? On Zoom, all participants can take notes on a split screen. While that is a welcome change, it also poses the problem of random drawings being scribbled during a conversation. The main problem occurs when you cannot identify the person drawing on the screen during a video call in Zoom. By default, when the participants scribble on a split screen in Zoom, you cannot see the names of the people involved. Also, sometimes things can get confusing and annoying when someone starts drawing inappropriate things. To avoid such scenarios, Zoom provides a setting that shows the participant’s name when drawing on the shared screen during a Zoom call. In this post, we will tell you how to find out who is scribbling on the shared screen while using Zoom on the computer and mobileAs a bonus, we also show you how to prevent other participants from drawing on the shared screen or whiteboard during a Zoom video call.
How to Know who is scribbling zoom
To know who is currently annotating in Zoom, you need to enable a setting for it. Only the person who initiated the sharing process can enable the setting. After it is enabled, all participants can see the name of the person who is drawing. Let’s see how to enable the setting on pc and mobile apps.
Enable annotator name settings on PC
To do this, follow these steps: Step 1: Create a meeting and start sharing your screen or start a whiteboard. Step 2: You will see a box at the top that says You are screen sharing. Move your mouse over to display the toolbar.
Step 3: In the toolbar that appears, click More button (three-dot icon). Select the option ‘Show annotator names’.
If you enable the option, you will see the participant’s name when that person starts drawing.
Search for the participant’s name for old drawings
When sharing a screen, click the Annotate option on the toolbar to see who drew or annotated something.
A new toolbar will open. Now click on Select. Then select the drawing or move your mouse over the respective drawings to reveal the creator.
Tip: Check out our guide On how to show a profile picture instead of video in Zoom.
Enable Annotator Names in Zoom on Android and iOS
To enable the setting on Zoom mobile apps, follow these steps: Step 1: Start sharing your screen, document or whiteboard in the Zoom app as usual. Step 2: Sharing your screen will take you out of the Zoom app. So you have to reopen the Zoom app. When you share a document or image, it will open in the Zoom app. Now in the Zoom app, tap the three-dot icon at the bottom and select Meeting Settings.
Step 3: In the Meeting settings, turn on the switch next to Show annotator names.
Tip Consult our guide know how to take the screen on Zoom.
How to Prevent participants from drawing in zoom
If you don’t want other participants to annotate your shared screen, document, etc., you can turn this off. You can turn it off for each meeting individually or keep it off for all meetings you join. Let’s take a look at both methods.
1. Turn off annotation for other meeting participants
Here is how to do it on pc and mobile apps.
Prevent participants from taking notes in Zoom on PC
When you have started sharing, click on the toolbar at the top. Then click More and select Disable Participant Annotation. Now only the person who started the sharing can take notes. Others will not see the annotation button
Prevent participants from taking notes in Zoom on Android and iOS
Once the sharing has started, click the three-dot icon at the bottom of the Zoom app. If you are outside of the Zoom app, you will need to open the app to access the three-dot icon. And if you are on the sharing screen, you have to go back to the main screen of the Zoom app.
Then turn off the toggle next to Annotate on the Meeting Settings screen.
2. Disable attendee annotation for all meetings
To do this, you need to access your Zoom account settings on the web. You can access it from the settings in the Zoom apps or go directly to https://us04web.zoom.us/profile. Tip For better quality video calls, check out our guide on 13 Handy Zoom Video Settings. Click Settings in the left sidebar in the Zoom account settings.
Click the Meeting tab followed by In Meeting (Basic).
Scroll down and you will find the Annotation option. Turn it off.
Let’s draw
It is very useful to enable the option to show who is drawing in Zoom. It removes the confusion of the annotations made and even catches out an idiot. Fortunately, Zoom has made it easy to toggle the same on and off. The next up: Do you want to become a professional using Zoom? Check out our ultimate guide to zoom in below to see How to become an experienced user of this tool.
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