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Teacher workstation

The machine at the front of the room. It drives the interactive panel, signs a teacher in with a tap, casts the board to every student device, and holds up through six lessons a day without a fan or a reboot.

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The problem

Lessons stall at the front of the room.

The first five minutes of a lesson are spent waking a tired tower, waiting for a login that thinks about it, and hunting for the cable that drives the panel. The board goes to sleep mid-explanation. The cast to the tablets drops when the room fills. A fan whines under the desk and dies in July, and a teacher loses a period to a machine that was never built for a classroom. What a room needs is a PC that wakes in seconds, knows the teacher by their staff card, throws the board to thirty devices without a stutter, and has no fan, no spinning disk and nothing to fail in front of a class. That is a purpose-built workstation, not a recycled office box.

Design targets
< 8 s Wake to sign-in screen
4K 60 Hz To the panel over HDMI 2.1
35 Student screens cast per class
0 fans Fanless, no moving parts
The system

One box, three jobs.

Driving the room, casting to the class, and staying up all day. Open a job for what it does and how far it goes.

Runs the board
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Drives the panel

One cable, touch comes back.

HDMI 2.1, 4K at 60 Hz USB touch returned as HID HDMI-CEC wakes the panel
Runs the board
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Drives the panel

One cable, touch comes back.

HDMI 2.1, 4K at 60 Hz USB touch returned as HID HDMI-CEC wakes the panel

A single link kit carries 4K video to the interactive flat panel at 60 Hz over HDMI 2.1, and returns the panel's touch and pen as a standard USB HID device, so annotation lands where the teacher taps with no calibration ritual. HDMI-CEC wakes and sleeps the panel with the workstation, so one press of the sign-in reader brings the whole front of the room to life. There is no second remote and no input-source hunt. The same link kit drives 65, 75 and 86 inch panels.
Shares the screen
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Casts to the class

The board on every device.

Up to 35 student devices Miracast and Google Cast receive Sub-second frame on 802.11ax
Shares the screen
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Casts to the class

The board on every device.

Up to 35 student devices Miracast and Google Cast receive Sub-second frame on 802.11ax

The workstation broadcasts the board to student laptops and tablets over the school network, up to 35 devices in a class, so a pupil at the back reads the same screen as the pupil at the front. It also receives, so a pupil can cast their work up to the panel with Miracast or Google Cast for the room to mark together. Frames land in under a second on Wi-Fi 6, and the stream degrades to a lower resolution before it drops. Cast runs on the LAN and does not route a lesson through the public internet.
Signs you in
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Knows the teacher

Tap in, your desktop follows.

MIFARE DESFire staff card Roaming profile, any room PIN fallback, no card left behind
Signs you in
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Knows the teacher

Tap in, your desktop follows.

MIFARE DESFire staff card Roaming profile, any room PIN fallback, no card left behind

A teacher taps their existing MIFARE DESFire staff card on the reader and is signed in to their own desktop, files and bookmarks in under three seconds, in whatever room they are teaching that period. The profile roams from the directory, so cover staff and specialists who move between rooms get their own setup on any workstation rather than a shared generic login. A PIN is there for the day a card is left in a coat. Sign-out is automatic on a timeout or a second tap, so the next class does not inherit an open mailbox.
Built for the term
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Stays up all day

Nothing spins, nothing whines.

Fanless, sealed SFF chassis M.2 NVMe, no spinning disk VESA behind the panel
Built for the term
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Stays up all day

Nothing spins, nothing whines.

Fanless, sealed SFF chassis M.2 NVMe, no spinning disk VESA behind the panel

The chassis is a sealed fanless mini PC with no fan to clog with chalk dust and no hard disk to fail. Heat leaves through the case, so it runs silent through a full timetable and a warm summer classroom. Storage is M.2 NVMe, so wake and file open are near instant, and there is no moving part to jolt when a panel is knocked. It mounts to a VESA 100 bracket behind the display, out of reach of the class and off the desk. All-day operation is the design point, not a burst rating.
Solution optimized products

What sits at the front.

Every part chosen and integrated to run a classroom from the board out.

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Compute

Fanless teacher workstation

Silent SFF, CalyOS Desktop

Sealed fanless mini PC, M.2 NVMe, TPM 2.0 and drive encryption, 2.5 GbE and Wi-Fi 6, running CalyOS Desktop with a whole-school management profile.

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Display

Panel link kit

4K 60 Hz + touch return

HDMI 2.1 video to the interactive panel with USB touch returned as HID and HDMI-CEC power sync, one bundled cable set sized for a wall-mounted display.

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Sign-in

Contactless staff reader

MIFARE DESFire, USB

A small USB desk reader that takes the school's existing MIFARE DESFire staff cards for tap sign-in, with a PIN pad fallback and a status LED the class can read.

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Software

Broadcast and class control

Up to 35 devices

Screen broadcast to student devices, live thumbnails of every screen, lock and blank, push a link or a file, and receive a pupil's cast to the panel, all over the school LAN.

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Compute

Behind-panel VESA mount

VESA 100, tool-light

A steel bracket that hangs the workstation on the display's VESA 100 pattern, cable-managed and out of reach, so nothing sits on the teaching desk.

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Under the hood

Why it wakes fast.

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Boot and wake

Off the desk, into the lesson

The workstation lives in a standby state between lessons rather than fully off, so a tap on the reader brings it and the panel up in under eight seconds. There is no spinning disk to wait on, no fan to spin up, and no full boot between periods. Overnight it patches and sleeps, so the first teacher of the day meets a machine that is ready, not one that is still thinking about updates. Modern standby is set in the management profile, not left to chance.

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Silent by design

No fan, no dust, no whine

Heat leaves the sealed aluminium case by conduction, so there is no fan to pull chalk dust and paper fibres through the machine and no bearing to wear out mid-year. Silence matters in a room where a teacher is talking over it, and a fanless design removes the single part most likely to fail in a classroom. The M.2 NVMe drive has nothing to spin, so it survives a knocked panel and opens a large slide deck without a stall. Fewer moving parts is fewer call-outs.

“The old tower took the first four minutes of every lesson. Now the teacher taps in and the board is live before the class has sat down.”
Head of computing, a secondary school
Lesson delivery

Teaching, not fiddling.

The workstation exists to get a lesson onto the board and keep it there. This is how it drives the panel, handles ink and media, and never drops the room mid-explanation.

On the board

One picture, sharp and live.

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Drive and ink

4K to the panel, touch straight back

Video goes to the interactive panel at 4K and 60 Hz over HDMI 2.1, so text on a slide is crisp from the back row and video does not tear when it moves. The panel's touch and pen return over USB as a standard HID device, so annotation on top of any app lands where the teacher's hand is, with no per-lesson calibration. A whiteboard mode and pen work over PDFs, browsers and the exam board's own software, because the ink sits at the system level rather than inside one app.

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Media and sound

Audio, camera and a visualiser, ready

Sound routes to the panel speakers or a room amplifier over the same HDMI link, so a clip plays with picture and audio in sync and at a level the class can hear. USB-C and USB-A on the front of the mount take a document visualiser, a webcam for a live experiment, or a teacher's own drive without reaching behind the display. HDMI-CEC ties the panel's power to the workstation, so there is one thing to turn on and one to turn off.

What drives a lesson

60 Hz 4K to the panel
< 8 s Wake to ready
HID Touch returned
USB-C Visualiser ready
Teaching questions

How it behaves in a room.

Does the pen work over any app?

Yes. Annotation sits at the system level, so a teacher can write over a PDF, a browser, a slide deck or the exam board's own software, not only inside one whiteboard app. Notes save to their roaming profile.

What happens if the panel is turned off first?

HDMI-CEC keeps the two in step, so turning the panel off sleeps the workstation and a tap on the reader brings both back. There is no state where the board is dark but the machine is burning power under the desk.

Can it drive an 86 inch panel and a projector?

The link kit is sized for 65, 75 and 86 inch panels, and the workstation has a second output for a projector or a confidence monitor where a room runs both.

Specify it with us

Bring your panel.

Tell us the make of interactive panel in your rooms and the devices your pupils carry. We size the link kit and the cast license to what you already own.

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Class control

The room on one screen.

From the front

Broadcast

One press throws the board to every student device in the class, up to 35, over the school network. A pupil at the back gets the same screen as the pupil at the front, and a pupil can cast their own work up to the panel for the room to mark together. It runs on the LAN, so a lesson never depends on the public internet holding up.

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See every screen

A live thumbnail wall shows what each pupil is doing, so drift is obvious at a glance.

See every screen

Thumbnails refresh a few times a second across the class. A teacher can click one screen to full size, take control to fix a stuck pupil, or step in without leaving the front of the room.

Lock and blank

Blank every device to eyes-front in one tap, and release when the class is back with you.

Lock and blank

Lock replaces every pupil screen with a held message, so attention comes back to the board for a demonstration. It clears the moment the teacher releases it, and never touches a device outside the class.

Push a link or file

Send the same URL, worksheet or file to the whole class at once, no dictation of a long address.

Push a link or file

A pushed link opens on every device, so a lesson starts on the right page instead of thirty mistyped addresses. Files land in the pupil's workspace for them to open and keep.

Ends with the bell

Control is scoped to the class and the period, and lifts automatically when the lesson ends.

Ends with the bell

The session is tied to the class list and the timetable slot, so a teacher only ever sees and controls the devices in front of them, and control releases cleanly at the end of the period.
The difference

Casting that does not drop.

Calyraen workstationA dongle on an office PC
Where the stream runs On the school LAN, no internet hop Through a cloud relay and back
Devices per class Up to 35, degrades before it drops Handful before it stutters
Latency to devices Under a second on Wi-Fi 6 Seconds, and variable
Who is in the session Scoped to the class list and period Whoever guesses the code
Fan and disk Fanless, M.2, silent all day Fan and hard disk, whines and fails
Sign-in Tap a staff card, profile roams Shared login, or a slow one
In a lesson

How a period runs.

  1. Tap in

    The teacher taps their staff card, their desktop loads and the class list for the period is already there.

  2. Broadcast the board

    One press casts the panel to every device so the room starts on the same screen.

  3. Set them working

    Push the worksheet or link, then watch the thumbnail wall for who needs a hand.

  4. Pull them back

    Blank the devices for a demonstration, cast a pupil's work to the panel, then release.

  5. Sign out

    A second tap or the timeout signs the teacher out, and the next class starts clean.

“I can see thirty screens without walking the room, blank them for a demo, and hand a pupil's work up to the board in seconds. That is the whole lesson, controlled from the front.”
Lead practitioner, a multi-academy trust
Deployment & IT

Enrolled, hardened, managed.

A fleet of front-of-room machines has to be safe, patched and the same in every room. This is how they enrol, what they are hardened to, and how the IT team runs the lot from one place.

Rollout

From box to room.

  1. Enrol

    Each workstation enrols into your management on first power, pulling the whole-school profile, apps and policies with no touch labour per unit.

  2. Join the directory

    It joins your directory so staff cards and roaming profiles work in every room from day one.

  3. Harden

    The CIS baseline, drive encryption and Secure Boot apply from the profile, so every machine leaves setup in the same known state.

  4. Pair the room

    The link kit and reader are paired to the panel, cast is scoped to the room's class lists, and the room is signed off against a checklist.

Management & security

Safe by policy.

Hardened

Baselined

Every workstation ships hardened to the CIS Benchmark Level 1 for the desktop, with TPM 2.0, Secure Boot and full-disk encryption on by policy, so a machine that walks out of a classroom is a brick to anyone else. The build is evidenced for Cyber Essentials Plus and mapped to the DfE meeting digital and technology standards, so IT can show the paperwork, not just claim it.

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Safeguarding aware

Keyword and screen monitoring hooks meet KCSIE expectations without a separate agent bolted on.

Safeguarding aware

The workstation carries the hooks a monitoring provider needs to flag terms and capture context in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, so safeguarding is part of the build rather than an afterthought that slows the machine down.

Managed from one place

Push apps, updates and policy to every front-of-room machine from your existing management console.

Managed from one place

The fleet reports to the same MDM the rest of the estate uses, so an IT team of one can patch every classroom overnight, see which rooms are healthy, and re-image a unit remotely without a site visit.

Patches overnight

Updates land and the machine sleeps before the first lesson, so no class waits on an update.

Patches overnight

A maintenance window runs updates and reboots in the small hours and returns the machine to standby, so the first teacher never meets the update screen. Windows are set per site to match the timetable.

Same in every room

One image, one profile, so a cover teacher meets the identical setup wherever they walk in.

Same in every room

Every workstation runs the same hardened image and pulls the same roaming profile, so there is no drift between rooms and no per-machine tinkering. A failed unit is swapped and re-enrolled to an identical state in minutes.
IT questions

What your team will ask.

Does it fit our existing management?

Yes. The workstation enrols into the MDM and directory you already run, so it is managed alongside the rest of the estate rather than as a separate island with its own console.

What is it hardened to?

CIS Benchmark Level 1 for the desktop, with TPM 2.0, Secure Boot and full-disk encryption on by policy. The build is evidenced for Cyber Essentials Plus and maps to the DfE meeting digital and technology standards.

How does safeguarding work?

The machine carries the monitoring hooks a KCSIE-aligned provider needs for keyword and screen flagging, so your chosen safeguarding service works without a heavy extra agent slowing the room down.

What certification does the hardware hold?

The units carry CE and UKCA marking, meet IEC 62368-1 for safety and EN 55032 for emissions, so they are cleared for a wall-mounted install in an occupied classroom.

Specify it with us

Send your standards.

Send us your management console, your safeguarding provider and your directory. We enrol to what you run and hand over the hardening evidence for your file.

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Resources

Briefs and worked rooms.

The one-page case, the technical detail, and real classrooms running the workstation. Open one for the detail.

Brief
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Solution brief

The one-page case for the front of the room.

2 pages For decision makers
Brief
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Solution brief

The one-page case for the front of the room.

2 pages For decision makers

A two-page summary written for a head or a business manager: the lost-minutes problem, the design targets, what sits at the front of the room, and the ownership model. It closes with the headline specification and the way the price works, so the person who signs off sees the whole picture without reading the integration detail.
White paper
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Deployment white paper

Enrolment, hardening and management, in full.

16 pages For IT and network leads
White paper
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Deployment white paper

Enrolment, hardening and management, in full.

16 pages For IT and network leads

The technical detail an IT lead needs before purchase: the CIS Level 1 baseline, TPM, Secure Boot and encryption policy, the Cyber Essentials Plus and DfE standards mapping, and the safeguarding hooks. It walks a rollout from box to room, covers the cast traffic on the LAN, the directory and roaming profile setup, and the total cost of ownership against a room count you send us.
White paper
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Panel and device compatibility

Which panels and pupil devices are covered.

10 pages For integrators
White paper
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Panel and device compatibility

Which panels and pupil devices are covered.

10 pages For integrators

The link kit specification for 65, 75 and 86 inch panels, the touch-return HID behaviour, HDMI-CEC power sync, and the cast support for pupil laptops and tablets. It lists the tested panel makes and device types, the network requirements for casting 35 screens, and the second-output setup for rooms that also run a projector.
Use case
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Primary classroom

One panel, thirty tablets, all day.

Roomsingle panel Devicespupil tablets
Use case
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Primary classroom

One panel, thirty tablets, all day.

Roomsingle panel Devicespupil tablets

A primary class where the teacher taps in at the start of the day and stays signed in through the timetable, casting the board to thirty tablets for shared reading and pushing a worksheet to every device at once. The fanless box behind the panel runs silent through story time and a warm afternoon, and the thumbnail wall lets one teacher keep eyes on a whole class without walking the room.
Use case
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Secondary computing suite

Cover staff and roaming profiles.

Roomshared suite Devicespupil laptops
Use case
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Secondary computing suite

Cover staff and roaming profiles.

Roomshared suite Devicespupil laptops

A computing room used by six different teachers a day, where each taps their own staff card and gets their own desktop and class list in seconds, and a cover teacher walking in cold meets the identical setup. Lock and blank pull thirty laptops to eyes-front for a demonstration, a pupil casts a working program up to the panel, and control releases with the bell so the next class starts clean.
Use case
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Trust-wide rollout

The same room in every school.

Estatemulti-academy Managementone console
Use case
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Trust-wide rollout

The same room in every school.

Estatemulti-academy Managementone console

A multi-academy trust standardising the front of every classroom on one hardened image, enrolled into the trust's existing management and directory so a small central team runs hundreds of machines. Updates and safeguarding policy push overnight, a failed unit is swapped and re-enrolled to an identical state in minutes, and the hardening evidence is the same pack for every site.
Request the files

Take it to IT.

The documents your team needs to scope and sign off a rollout.

Teacher workstation datasheet Datasheet PDF, on request Deployment white paper White paper PDF, on request Panel and device compatibility guide Integration PDF, on request
How you own it

Bought once.

You buy the workstation, the link kit, the reader and the class-control software once, and they are yours. There is no per-teacher and no per-device licence sitting behind the cast, and no meter that turns a classroom off when a subscription lapses. Signed updates and the hardening baseline come through the support term, and spares and images are held for years from the last unit shipped, so an ageing fleet stays serviceable and a broken unit is swapped, not written off. The deployment white paper lays out total cost of ownership against your room count, so procurement sees the whole figure rather than a headline price with a subscription behind it.