Open Classroom Management Built for Sovereign Digital Education

Veyon empowers schools to organize digital learning environments securely, transparently, and independently — fully privacy-compliant and directly on your endpoints.

For teachers, school authorities and IT administrators

The Veyon Master application showing an overview of multiple student workstations

Why Veyon?

  • Open Source (GPLv2) Full code transparency with zero vendor lock-in.
  • Engineered in Germany Built in Chemnitz under strict European quality and privacy standards.
  • Active since 2004 Over 20 years of continuous development and long-term reliability.
  • Decentralized and fully privacy-compliant Running directly on endpoints without cloud dependency.

Veyon in numbers

  • 4M Downloads
  • 400+ Add-on customers
  • 2K GitHub stars

Digital learning environments under your control

Focus on teaching

Monitor screens, organize content and manage learning processes without unnecessary complexity.

Distribute materials quickly

Send websites, files and applications to selected devices directly during lessons.

Maintain technical independence

Open source, transparent and deployable on your own infrastructure – without vendor or cloud lock-in.

The most important workflows at a glance

1

Observe

Keep an eye on student workstations and structure lessons clearly.

2

Share and collect

Distribute content, websites and documents to individual devices or entire groups – and collect completed work centrally afterwards.

3

Manage

Remotely control, lock and restart devices or manage them between different teaching phases.

All features and tools at a glance

The free open-source core forms the foundation of Veyon. Commercial add-ons extend your environment with essential functions for Internet access, device discovery, directory integration and screen recording.
Veyon Core Free
Veyon Add-ons Commercial
Monitor screens Keep a quick overview of all workstations during lessons.
Broadcast a screen Present your own screen or selected content to learners.
Remotely control workstations Support learners directly and work through tasks together at their workstation.
Distribute and collect files Distribute teaching materials and collect completed work centrally.
Open websites Make content available to all learners and open it centrally.
Send messages Send notices and messages directly to individual workstations or groups.
Lock workstations Regain attention and pause digital work phases in a targeted way.
Manage workstations Centrally organize logins, restarts and other administrative tasks.
Internet Access Control Centrally block web access or whitelist specific learning sites.
Audio, Webcam & USB Device Control Centrally mute audio channels, disable webcams, or block USB storage drives during exams.
Automated Cloud Sync (Entra ID) Synchronize users, classes, and devices automatically with Microsoft 365.
Privacy-Compliant Screen Recording Record the screens of observed computers for review or documentation.
Dynamic Network Discovery Automatically discover computers on the network, including DHCP-based networks and RDP sessions.

Open technology. Transparently developed.

Veyon is an open and transparent solution for digital learning environments. With publicly available source code and transparent licensing, it can be fully operated on your own infrastructure.

This keeps the technology under your control – including for schools, school authorities and IT administrators making long-term decisions with a focus on data sovereignty and independence.

  • Open source under GPLv2
  • No mandatory cloud platform
  • Direct operation on endpoint devices and within your own environment