eLecta Live is a virtual classroom and conference tool that installs a small client program on the user's machine. The client program is then used to access the virtual classroom server by logging in. It was released very recently and has most features expected from a virtual classroom. Its downfall may be that it has too many frivilous features, drawing attention away from the main classroom activities.
Good Features:
Easy to use white board with multiple layers and screen capture
Classroom roster with extensive features such as handraising, emotes, and speach permissions
Easy to use document, application, and image sharing
The ability to give video and/or audio assisted lectures where each participant can have a microphone.
The ability to browse websites as a class
The ability to record and playback classroom sessions
Bad Features:
Emotes and text chat are distracting and interrupt the flow of lectures, much like talking in a real classroom.
Extra features make the user interface far too complicated for the average user who simply wants to attend a lecture.
The features are spread out into many windows and categories instead of in one centralized interface.
Login required.
Missing Features:
The whiteboard has multiple layers to draw on, but cannot overlay these layers onto eachother or onto lecture notes.
The lecture notes must be prepared and imported from another program such as powerpoint.
The lecture notes cannot expand/contract unless edited to do so by another program.