Teams Meetings: Sharing a Whiteboard

Summary

You can share a new or existing whiteboard with all participants in a Teams meeting. That same whiteboard is available across all devices. 

You can also choose an existing whiteboard to share in a Teams meeting. This makes it easy to prepare a whiteboard ahead of time or continue working on a project outside of Teams.

This article will walk the user through how to share a Whiteboard in Teams Meetings and further resources on the whiteboard. 

 

How-To

Task: To share a whiteboard in a Teams meeting

Instructions

Step 1 - Select the Share icon in the meeting's share tray.

You can share a whiteboard to make it available to everyone in a Teams meeting.

 

Step 2 - Select Microsoft Whiteboard.

Step 3 - The board picker view will open. Select an existing board from the list or start a new board.

You can now share an existing board in Teams.

 

Note: If a whiteboard is already associated with the meeting, Teams will share that board by default. You can choose a different board to share by navigating to the Home icon in the top left.

 

Outcome

Users will be able to share a whiteboard in a Teams Meeting. 

 

Further Readings

Teams Meetings: Sharing Content

Teams Meetings: Sharing Media during a Live Meeting

Microsoft Support - Use a Whiteboard in a Teams Meeting 

Microsoft Support - Share a Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams 

 

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