Agora Flat Open Source Classroom: Features, Installation, and Usage Guide
The article introduces Agora Flat, an open‑source interactive classroom platform with real‑time audio/video, whiteboard, and screen sharing, outlines its key features, and provides step‑by‑step installation and build instructions for both Electron and Web clients using pnpm.
Agora Flat is an open‑source interactive classroom platform that supports large‑class, small‑class, and one‑to‑one teaching modes, offering real‑time audio/video, a multi‑function whiteboard, chat, screen sharing, and cloud recording.
Key features include real‑time interaction, multiple login methods (WeChat, GitHub), room management with periodic rooms, multimedia cloud storage, and screen sharing.
Installation and quick start: the repository provides a Flat Electron client and a Flat Web client. After cloning, install pnpm, run pnpm i , then start the Electron client with pnpm start or the web client with pnpm start:web (or cd ./web/flat-web && pnpm start ).
To build distributable binaries, run pnpm ship for the current OS, or pnpm ship:mac / pnpm ship:win for specific platforms.
If electron download fails, create an .npmrc file with ELECTRON_MIRROR="https://npmmirror.com/mirrors/electron/" and reinstall using pnpm i .
Related projects include the Flat Android client, Flat server, and the official Flat homepage, all linked in the documentation.
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