How to annotate your screen share in Google Meet.

Google Meet, the video calling element of Google Workspace by Kimbley IT, is a feature-rich video conferencing system with many outstanding features you should try!

One of the best features is annotating your screen share so everyone on the call knows where to look. Annotations are perfect if you're reviewing a design brief and need everyone to focus on a particular aspect or if you're brainstorming and want to record ideas easily.

Annotations are built directly into Google Meet. With a simple mouse click, you can use a laser point, apply shapes or stickers and easily guide your audience through your screen share. You might not know that with the click of another button, you can even allow your audience to annotate the same screen share. Here's how you set this all up.

Turning on Annotations in Google Meet.

To activate the option to annotate your screen share:

• Start sharing your screen through Google Meet. Once you have begun presenting, an icon for annotating it will appear at the bottom of the screen.

• Clicking the icon will give you access to the following annotations.

  • Stickers

  • Pen

  • Disappearing ink (on by default)

  • Text box

  • Sticky note

  • Lines and shapes

  • Colour

To create a laser pointer effect, which is usually the most popular, select Disappearing Ink. This option leaves a trail behind that fades away after a few seconds, while the Pen option leaves a permanent trail behind and can only be removed by selecting the Eraser or the Clear All option.

Letting others annotate your screen share.

With Google Meet, you can let participants in your video call also annotate your screen share; to do this, you need to:

• Click on the list of participants

• Next to their name, click on the three dots to access more actions, and then select Add a co-annotator.