Release Notes: Smart Classroom#
Version 2026.0#
April 1, 2026
The Smart Classroom application now offers a series after-class summary enhancements in the form of next‑generation real-time audio and visual analytics, giving teachers and schools a better understanding of classroom dynamics through AI‑driven summaries and engagement metrics.
The Education AI Suite now also includes built-in telemetry hooks and benchmarking.
New
Speaker Diarization (via the Audio Pipeline):
identifies teacher and student speakers using NPU-accelerated diarization
generates an interactive audio timeline for replay and analysis
enables time-coded navigation within class video recordings
Class Engagement Metrics – Audio:
measure teacher and student speech duration
track questions asked and answered
track student-teacher interaction frequency
Class Engagement Metrics – Video:
track student hand raises
track posture changes (stand up/sit down)
track teacher movement
Built‑in telemetry to measure classroom workloads across Intel platforms (CPU core utilization, iGPU load, NPU load, memory usage, workload-specific performance counters)
Benchmarking scripts to reproduce Intel internal performance measurements, and validate XPU performance
Improved
Knowledge Graph UI readability and formatting, and increased clarity when visualizing topic relationships