Discord is a VoIP based messaging application. It supports the sharing of all forms of multimedia, such as text, image, audio, and video. It is a gaming community-centric app. Over the recent updates, it is quite popular among small businesses and for general multipurpose group chats.
Server functionality in Discord makes it stand apart from any other standard messaging platform. You can have your dedicated discord server for daily communication and management.
Apart from messages, it can do a lot of other things such as video calling and sharing your desktop screen with your team or a group of people. At the moment, a total of nine people can screen share their desktop simultaneously on a discord server.
This feature is entirely new, and many of us don’t use it daily and are unaware of it. Here we share some simple steps that will help you enable screen share in Discord, so let’s get right into it.
To Enable Screen Share in Discord
For this to work, be sure that you’re using the Discord Desktop client and also an up-to-date version of the same. You need to be on a video/audio call with the person whom you want to do a screen share. So make sure that audio/video hardware is working correctly. Also, you can choose to keep the video or audio enable while sharing the screen.
Video(Camera) & Audio Settings
Let us do some basic video and audio configurations for you to call someone and to enable screen share in Discord.
- From user settings (Bottom left of the screen, on the right of your username), go to App Settings, and open the “Voice & Video” tab. From here, you can control all your voice and video settings.
- Under voice settings, select the appropriate input and output device. It usually is configured by default, to make sure that it is working, do a Mic Test by pressing the Let’s Check button.
- Scroll down to discover the video settings and select the desired video device, it can be your laptop’s internal video hardware, or you can even choose the external webcam.
- Hit the Test Video button to verify if your video hardware is working correctly.
The next step is to connect with your friends on discord.
Connect with users on Discord to do a Screen Share
In order to do a screen share, you must connect over a call on discord. Make sure that you are friends with the person you want to communicate with. After you’ve made sure of this, you are ready to move ahead.
- Look for the Discord Icon on the top-left and go to the homepage. Click on the friends to open up the friend list.
- Hover over the username of the person with whom you want to connect or click that particular username and an option to video or voice call will appear.
- Furthermore, there will also be an option of screen sharing, click on that, and you’ll be able to share your screen with absolutely anyone.
Screen Share Features on Discord Server
There are multiple features that might come handy while you are sharing screens with your friend or in a group. Some of them are listed below.
While you have started with screen sharing, you can also turn on-off sound parallelly. It helps you communicate in a better way and makes the meeting more efficient in general.
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Video Marquee
Here, you can choose to see the video of any particular person while connected in a group call. You select the person you wish to see, and others will just slide by in the marquee to the right. To change the video focus to a different person, just select someone else from the marquee.
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Turn Sound on or off during screen share on Discord
You can also choose to turn your voice chat on or off as per your requirement while you are sharing the screen. To do this, toggle the SOUND to on or off while you’re in the application window. It’s quite useful to guide others around the screen, especially if you’re giving a product demo or anything of that sort.
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Swap Screens to share in Discord
While sharing your screen, you can swap between video or screen from the bottom icons. You do this by tapping on the leftmost icon on the center (monitor with an arrow) and select the screens which you wish to share. There you can choose any specific application window or the complete screen. You can switch to the video by hitting the video button to the right. The swap can be made at any desired time while on a call.
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Toggle Full Screen
You can also choose to have a full screen for screen sharing by clicking on the double arrow icon situated on the extreme right. The starting icon that is the expand arrow will make the screen grow to the resolution that you have set on the Discord App.
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Leave Call Button
You can quickly disconnect the call after you’re done with a screen share by clicking on the Leave Call. Do not press it accidentally as it won’t give any warnings.
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User Settings
User settings can be accessed by selecting the settings icon from the bottom tray. It is similar to that of the discord homepage.
Conclusion
Invite your friends over discord for a seamless Video chat, or Screen Share. Discord is quite efficient when it comes to sharing screens with individually or with a group of people at once. Additionally, it also has some intuitive features in place to help you throughout the screen sharing process. Use them at your advantage and let us know if you have any problems while doing a Discord Screen Share in the comments section below.