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

Documentation and Source Code#

Previous releases#