As personal computer ownership among university students has increased in recent years, university administration are now faced with the challenge of providing value-added computing facilities for their constituents beyond basic access.

Enter the group workspace aiming to promote teamwork and collaboration across machines, location, and time. Unfortunately, many such group workspaces developed thus far have been impractical either due to cost or difficulty of use. Teamspace is a prototype for a public interactive learning workspace designed to be easy for novice users to understand and learn. It addresses the challenges of economics, installation, recovery, robustness and reliability in a way that simplifies and empowers the group work user experience.