Ryan Edunation is a pioneering force in Indian education, encompassing an expansive network of 165 schools and over 250,000 learners. With a legacy built on innovation and excellence, the group is dedicated to fostering holistic development and preparing students for global success. Their vision centres on creating progressive, future-ready learning environments that empower students through active exploration and 21st-century skills.

Before the group-wide transition to BenQ Boards, many campuses relied on traditional teaching models involving projectors and various other smart boards. This infrastructure presented several hurdles for both the IT and academic teams:

• Lack of Standardization: Maintaining academic consistency across a vast network was a significant challenge. With schools spread across diverse locations, varying levels of resources, teacher expertise, and infrastructure often resulted in noticeable inconsistencies in lesson delivery quality, making it difficult to uphold Ryan Edunation’s high standards of excellence uniformly.
• Operational Inefficiency: Projectors and other smart boards suffered from frequent maintenance issues, dim visibility in varying lighting conditions, and limited reliability, causing downtime and extra workload for IT teams.
• Limited Interactivity: Traditional tools were primarily teacher-led, offering little room for student participation, real-time collaboration, or seamless integration of modern digital resources like Google Workspace apps.

These limitations hindered engagement, slowed adoption, and made it difficult to deliver uniform, high-quality education at scale.

To address these challenges, Ryan Edunation chose to implement the BenQ Board Essential RE04 Series across its campuses. The decision was centrally driven and guided by key parameters: BenQ’s strong brand credibility, Google EDLA certification, nationwide service scale, and long-term sustainability.

The EDLA-certified ecosystem allows teachers to access familiar Google apps like PowerPoint, MS Word, YouTube, and the Play Store directly on the board, eliminating the learning curve and enabling seamless lesson flow.

BenQ’s proprietary DMS (Device Management Solution) and AMS (Account Management System) empowered the IT team to monitor, update, and manage boards remotely across multiple locations from a single central dashboard—reducing physical interventions and ensuring security compliance.

In the classroom, powerful features such as EZWrite6 , Split Screen, EZMath AI, annotation tools, and image-to-text extraction transformed static lectures into dynamic, multi-sensory experiences. Eye-care technology further supported comfortable, extended teaching hours.

But more than these, Brooks notes how the BenQ Board allows them to facilitate inquiry-based teaching and learning, which is the core tenet of the IB program. She explains: “To start the lesson, there does have to be some presentation from the teacher, but it needs to be done in a way that encourages the students to follow their own inquiry… I think one advantage of the BenQ Boards for IB [is how it allows] students to interact with the initial presentation and help them start their inquiry.”

Another strong draw-in that led the CGK staff to pick the BenQ Board over other options is the EZWrite whiteboard and how it allows teachers to keep building on their initial lesson.

“Being able to create presentations, save them, and very, very easily call them back up later, I can see that really working for units of inquiry,” says Brooks, “Where you start learning over one lesson, and then you need to continue it over days and potentially weeks, so that functionality was really important.”

The transition to BenQ Boards has delivered measurable improvements in operational efficiency, teaching consistency, and classroom engagement. Standardized hardware and cloud access have dramatically simplified maintaining uniform teaching quality across diverse campuses. As the Regional Academic Head noted, the technology has “reduced variation in lesson delivery” and made onboarding and training significantly easier.

Teachers report a surge in student participation through interactive features such as Split Screen, real-time annotations on videos, and screen mirroring. One teacher shared: “Now every lesson feels dynamic and inclusive, creativity flows naturally every day.”

The visible infrastructure upgrade has also boosted parent perception during campus tours and digital campaigns. The Marketing Head highlighted: “In a competitive education landscape, these interactive panels help differentiate Ryan from other institutions. They support our larger storytelling around experiential and outcome-driven learning.”

IT teams now benefit from centralized remote management and fewer recurring issues, while internal observations show improved student attention, participation, and knowledge retention.

Through the implementation of the BenQ Board Essential RE04 Series, Ryan Edunation has successfully transformed its classrooms into modern, interactive, and inclusive learning environments. BenQ has enabled the group to achieve greater academic consistency at scale, enhance teacher efficiency, increase student engagement, and strengthen its brand as a leader in progressive education.