Zoom and pointerfocus (anyone bored?)

[Ksandra]

Trying to find a solution to my problem and I can't find anyone on the internet who as brought this up. I have had good luck asking questions on bg, and figured maybe someone would be bored enough to try and troubleshoot this.

Our school uses Zoom for teaching and I just found out this morning about Pointerfocus. It's an app that does a lot of functions with the mouse. In particular it can gray out the whole screen except where the mouse is:



Got super excited, downloaded and installed it, and went to use it during my classes. For whatever reason I can see it, but the students cannot.

I tried trouble shooting by starting a Zoom session as a host and participant (two computers) and I run into the same issue. I see it on the computer as host, but when sharing you don't see it at all.

For more info: I was in a PD training on Zoom where the trainer was using a different app called Mousepose which is mac only (I have PCs). They function the same so, while this is a different program, it SHOULD work.

If anyone is bored and is familiar with either of these programs, would you be up for messing around with it on your own and seeing what you need to do to make participants see it when you share your screen?

App location:

https://pointerfocus.soft32.com/

https://us04web.zoom.us/

Both are free to try btw. For Pointerfocus it pops up a menu to buy while you are using it, but you can drag it off to the side while working on it then just uninstall if you don't want it anymore.

Thanks in advance if anyone gets bored enough to do this!

Oh note: I do have annotations and whiteboard turned on, doesn't seem to help.

[Gredival]

Are you sharing the whole screen itself on or just the Word/PointPoint window? My guess is that because of the way Zoom shares with focus, this program won't work unless you share the entire screen.

[Ksandra]

Are you sharing the whole screen itself on or just the Word/PointPoint window? My guess is that because of the way Zoom shares with focus, this program won't work unless you share the entire screen.

I only share the entire screen. :/

For reference, usually it's a website (since we use google classroom). Training I had this morning was sharing a website, too.

[Byrthnoth]

What about trying this functionality instead?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...8-cb8336074554

[Ksandra]

What about trying this functionality instead?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...8-cb8336074554

Thanks! I would still like the spotlight tool, but this is a definite alternative until I can get it working!

[theshun]

Is it something goofy like running Zoom normal but pointerfocus as Admin?

[JJBradley]

What about trying this functionality instead?

Just in case no one else has seen it yet, you can now change the color of the mouse pointer for better view