In a classroom where every student has a laptop or tablet, a lesson plan can fall apart in seconds. A student switches to a game in a split screen, a group in the back row spends the lesson swapping their wallpapers back and forth as a joke, or a teacher loses several minutes just getting everyone to look at the board again. When these things pile up, keeping a lesson focused becomes a challenge in itself.
Until now, many attempts to manage digital learning have focused mostly on restriction, such as blocking games, preventing installs from unapproved sources, and overall keeping students out of trouble. Those controls still matter, but they solve for what students shouldn’t be doing—and they leave teachers without the thing they actually need: a clear view of how each student is progressing, and the ability to step in at the moment it matters.
Knox Classroom is Samsung’s answer: it simplifies teaching by giving teachers real-time visibility into student devices during a lesson—all with the goal of improving student learning and engagement. For a school’s IT team, it fits into the systems already in place rather than replacing them, so adoption doesn’t mean migrating off tools that already work.
Released on September 17th, 2026 in Korea, it’s set to expand more broadly from there.
Table of contents:
- For teachers: seeing and steering the lesson in real time
- For IT admins: adding Knox Classroom without disruption
- Bring Knox Classroom to your school
For teachers: seeing and steering the lesson in real time
Thirty tablets can be running thirty different things at once, and almost none of it is visible from the front of the room. Knox Classroom gives a teacher three things at once: a live picture of what every student is doing, the controls to act on it, and remote support for individual students—all without breaking the flow of the lesson.
Real-time visibility for every lesson
A teacher who walks the aisles to check screens loses teaching time with every lap—and by the time they reach the back row, the front row has usually moved on to something else. Knox Classroom closes that gap by bringing every student’s screen to the teacher instead of the other way around:
- Live View grid: Pull up real-time thumbnails for every connected student in a single grid view, so a teacher can spot who’s drifted off-task without walking around the room.
- Individual support: Open any student’s device from the grid for a closer look, so a teacher can confirm what’s on screen before stepping in.
- Remote control: Take control of a student’s keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen to help them work through a problem from the front of the room.
- Lock and mute: Apply to one device or the whole class in a single action—useful while speaking to the class, moving between activities, or just getting everyone’s attention back.
Key takeaway: A teacher can see and respond to what’s happening on every screen without leaving the front of the room.
Interactive tools that keep students in the lesson
Locking a device or muting a screen removes the possibility of distractions, but it doesn’t give a student anything to do instead—and a room full of locked screens isn’t the same as a room full of engaged students. Visibility solves half the problem; the other half is keeping that attention productive instead of just supervised:
- Two-way screen sharing: Push a teacher’s screen to every device for guided instruction, or approve a student’s request to share their own screen with the class,1 so either side can show their work without the usual cables or setup.
- Respond to student requests in real time: Notice when a student taps Raise hand or sends an Ask to leave request, and call on them or approve the request right from the dashboard, without pausing the lesson to check who needs what.
- Lock the lesson in place: Start focus mode to restrict every device to a single app from the predefined list or a specific website, so a lesson resource stays open without a student wandering off to something else.
Key takeaway: Students get more ways to participate, turning supervision into real engagement while the teacher keeps the controls that matter.
For IT admins: adding Knox Classroom without disruption
Adopting any piece of edtech usually comes with a procurement review, a security assessment, and a rollout plan before a single student touches it. Two questions decide whether it clears those checks: what it does to the tools already in place, and how much work it takes to stand up.
Fits into what your school already runs
If adopting a tool means replacing a mobile device management (MDM) or learning management system (LMS) the school spent a year approving, the answer is often no before the conversation even starts. For IT admins, the bigger question is usually not whether a feature works—it’s whether adopting it means disrupting a system that’s already in place and running:
- Built to extend your existing ecosystem: Works alongside a school’s current MDM and LMS instead of replacing them—the classroom layer neither one covers.
- One solution across hardware: Use Knox Classroom with Samsung Galaxy Tab series, Samsung Galaxy Book series,2 and compatible interactive displays3—all from the same place.
Key takeaway: Adopting Knox Classroom means keeping everything IT already relies on, with one thing added on top: the real-time visibility that helps teachers stay ahead of what’s happening in the room.
Curious about the network and bandwidth requirements? Explore the supported specifications to confirm your devices and connection are ready.
One account system for every teacher and student
Rolling out a new classroom tool to an entire school—sometimes hundreds of students across a dozen grade levels—can take longer to set up than it does to actually adopt. Knox Classroom runs on Samsung Account for Education, which keeps that part contained to one system rather than several:
- Two account types, one system: Start by creating General user accounts, which cover IT admins and teachers who sign in with their real name and get added to a predefined Teacher Group. Then add Classroom user accounts to cover students, who can use a display name instead and don’t need an email address.
- Organize and onboard at scale: Mirror the school’s structure with organizational units and groups, then bulk-create up to 10,000 Classroom user accounts at once from a CSV file.
- Grows with the school: Access is user-based, so adding a student partway through the year doesn’t mean reconfiguring devices or provisioning new hardware.
- Works with or without an MDM: Knox Classroom runs on its own, with no MDM solution required. For larger schools, pairing it with Knox Manage (one of the solutions in Knox Suite) adds additional centralized device policy management, remote app deployment, and bulk device enrolment.
Key takeaway: IT admins get one account system to set up and manage, whether the school has ten or ten thousand students.
Bring Knox Classroom to your school
Knox Classroom gives teachers real-time visibility into the lesson, and allows IT to extend a school’s existing ecosystem instead of replacing it. With its release on September 17th, 2026 in Korea, broader availability will expand to the rest of the world in 2027.
If you want to see how it works in practice, the Knox Classroom teacher’s guide walks through setting up your first class and running a whole lesson, and the Knox Classroom IT admin’s guide covers registering your institution and onboarding your teachers and students. For a look at the student side—useful if you need to troubleshoot what a student is seeing—the Knox Classroom student guide covers what a student experiences when joining and participating in a class.
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