Agora

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Agora is an interactive real-time e-Collaboration communication tool with the following features:

  • Many to many Audio/Video conference.
  • Shared desktop. Agora allows broadcast your desktop.
  • Instant messaging. Easy way to communicate any written information.
  • Shared whiteboard. Agora has a whiteboard where everybody can sketch.
  • Movie-casting. Agora allows to broadcast movies in real-time.

Agora is being developed at Lancaster University at the Centre for e-Science within the e-Collaboration tools project by Adrian Fish and Miguel Gonzalez Losa.

Presentation to Sakai Atlanta 2006 Conference

[edit] Beta Testing Agora

Agora is currently in beta release, and is available for beta testing.

[edit] Development Status

Windows
Tested, in beta
Linux
Untested since moved to using Java Webstart for distribution
Mac
In development

[edit] Accessing Agora

Register first and then go to the beta site to use Agora.

  1. Register with Lancaster's e-Collaboration project SAKAI installation
  2. Confirm registration via email
  3. Login to SAKAI to access the Agora beta: http://baklava.lancs.ac.uk/portal
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