Quality Control Form - Sakai Demonstrator Project

Tool Name: Whiteboard Developer(s): Adrian Fish

Description of Tool	Interactive whiteboard
Origin of Tool	Lancaster University Centre for e-Science (LUCeS)
Agreement with original Authors (please state process and nature of agreement)	Tool developed under Sakai VRE Demonstrator project
License applicable	TBD
Platform used (please tick)	JetSpeed2: uPortal: GridSphere: Liferay: eXo: CHEF (OGCE): Sakai: x StringBeans: Other:
Integration Technology used (please tick)	JSR-168: WSRP: OKI OSID Service API: Other: TPP
In repository? (note discussions with NeSC and status	Status: in demonstrator Download: no
With OMII? (note discussions with OMII and status	Status:
Integration signed off by	Rob Crouchley
Date	July 2005

Description of work undertaken during porting:

Problems encountered:

Ongoing support issues:

Tool use case:

The Whiteboard allows a group of worksite users to collaboratively draw and manipulate shapes on a canvas.

All participants receive the shapes from every other participant, so everybody have the same vision of the canvas being possible any manipulation like moving, scaling, deleting by any user. The tool has a locking mechanism in order to prevent the manipulation of the same shape by to different participants simultaneously.

With this tool is possible to draw basic shapes, arrows, text and showing images.

Main features

• Easy configuration: start a session with the whiteboard just required selects the participants. Each participant will receive an email with a link to the page where they can start the session.
• Easy Installation: this tool is downloaded and executed as an applet throws Internet so a user will have always the latest version.
• Operations with shapes: create, delete, move, scale and rotate. In each shape is possible to establish the border colour, border width and background colour.
• Operations with text: create and manipulate a text. It is possible to establish the font type, font colour and font size of the text.
• Operations with images: put on the canvas a JPG, GIF or PNG image. Transformations like scaling and rotating are allowed.

Help information for tool users:

http://www.e-science.lancs.ac.uk/eCollaborationTools/whiteboard/whiteboard.html