Active Contributor

9 months ago

Status:

Investigating

Interactive Drawing Feature is Lost in the New GoTo

The interactive/collaborative drawing feature from the old GoToMeeting is now completely disabled and is sorely missed by our company and our many collaborators worldwide — designers, fabricators, engineers. We cannot have functional conferences without this feature.

Before, multiple participants could draw simultaneously on an image/document shared by the presenter, each in a different pen color. Now only the presenter can draw on the presenter's own screen. It is a tremendous loss for what used to be a standout and unique application!

Please bring this back!

12 Comments

KateG
GoTo Manager
9 months ago
Hi Jana Stockwell Welcome to the GoTo Community.

Currently the active presenter on the desktop app can use drawing tools, but our team is working on improvements to the feature, including allowing attendees to draw on the presenter's screen. We will update the Community as soon as they are available. In the meantime:

You may want to check out Glenn's post here about how to use the Miro whiteboard, for group drawing.

There is also a workaround that you may want to try until the feature is fully available:

The Presenter can choose the Draw options: Size, Color, and Opacity for the attendee and then give the remote control to the attendee to draw on their screen share.
Jana Stockwell
Active Contributor
9 months ago
To recap, the unique feature, now lost, is summarized below:
The presenter controls his/her own computer and shares images/docs on sceen (no remote control).
The presenter enables all attendees to draw simultaneously on the images/docs shared, with each attendee using his/her own pen and color choice for clarity.