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Classes deployed: 3,000 classes
3,000-plus classes deployed across Europe
Photon Education builds Classwise on Azure AI with Azure OpenAI for lesson creation, analytics, and inclusion in European schools
Use case typeEducational content platformUpdated Jul 5, 2025
Photon Education, an edtech company in Poland/Europe, built the Classwise hybrid cloud-based education platform to help teachers deal with device/connectivity issues, low student participation, and excessive lesson preparation time. The platform uses Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry for quiz generation and backend AI features, plus Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Azure App Services/databases for security and core hosting. Classwise combines gamification, analytics, verified lesson content, and localized curricula to support inclusive classroom participation and post-lesson performance analysis.
- Organization
- Photon Education
- Industry
- Education
- Location
- Poland
- Published
- July 2025
Reported outcomes
+74%
critical thinking skillsOther quantified impact
3,000 classesclasses deployed10,500 accountsactive teacher accounts200,000 studentsstudents tracked with analytics1,000,000 participantsquiz participants81%understanding of generative AI
Strategic outcomes
Market & geographic expansionExpanded from hardware into a software and content platformCost efficiencyReduced lesson preparation time for teachersOther strategic outcomeSupported more inclusive classroom participationRisk & complianceBuilt security into the design for pupil data
Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks
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Active teacher accounts: 10,500 accounts
10,500-plus active teacher accounts, growing by around 200 new users per week
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Students tracked with analytics: 200,000 students
200,000-plus students, with learning analytics tracked
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Quiz participants: 1,000,000 participants
Over 1 million quiz participants representing the platform’s total student reach
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Understanding of generative AI: 81%
81% progress in understanding generative AI
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Critical thinking skills: 74% increase
74% improvement in critical thinking skills
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Foundational AI concepts: 70%
70% progress in foundational AI concepts
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Photon Education
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Scaled Production
- Linked source
- Microsoft Customer Stories
Commercial deployments started in early 2025 and the platform scaled to 3,000+ classes, 10,500+ active teacher accounts, 200,000+ students with analytics tracked, and 1M+ quiz participants
Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported
Primary read
Use case focus
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- 1Educational content platform
- 2Lesson planning automation
- 3Educational analytics
Teachers faced device and connectivity issues, low student participation, excessive time preparing lessons, and a lack of real-time assessment tools.
- Photon Education decoupled AI microservices so quiz generation and other generative AI features would stay low-latency while the core CMS remained stable.
- The company used Microsoft Azure AI, including Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry, with Defender for Cloud guiding security decisions for App Services and databases.
- Commercial deployments started in early 2025 and the platform scaled to 3,000+ classes, 10,500+ active teacher accounts, 200,000+ students with analytics tracked, and 1M+ quiz participants.
- The company reported 81% progress in understanding generative AI, 74% improvement in critical thinking, and 70% progress in foundational AI concepts.
Architecture
Photon Education built Classwise as a hybrid cloud-based education platform on Microsoft Azure. The architecture separates generative AI and quiz-generation microservices from the main application so the user experience stays low-latency during class while the core CMS remains stable. Microsoft Defender for Cloud was used to provide ongoing security guidance for Azure App Services and databases handling school and pupil data.
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium65/100Evidence strength
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Primary source available
- Quantified outcome available
- Technical implementation details available
Type: Customer StoryPublished: Jul 5, 2025Publisher: MicrosoftEvidence: PrimaryConfidence: High
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