Product design question

You are a product manager of Zoom. How would you go about designing a zoom like application for education?

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What this question tests

Product design for adapting a general-purpose video conferencing tool to a specific vertical, education, with distinct user needs.

Identify the distinct users in education: teachers, students, and administrators, each with different needs from a generic call.
Name education-specific pain points a generic Zoom call doesn't solve: managing attention in a large virtual classroom, taking attendance, and preventing disruptive behavior.
Propose focused features: a teacher-only control panel for muting and breakout rooms, built-in attendance tracking, and a simplified, low-distraction student view.
Address safety and moderation: verified-student access controls to prevent 'Zoombombing,' a well-known real problem in remote education.
Define success as class attendance completion rate and teacher-reported classroom-management satisfaction, with disruption incidents as a guardrail.

Differentiates from generic Zoom by naming classroom-specific problems, attention management and moderation, not just a rebrand.
Explicitly addresses the real, well-documented Zoombombing/security problem in education specifically.
Defines success with an education-relevant metric, attendance completion, not a generic call-length metric.

Describing a feature set identical to standard Zoom with no education-specific reasoning.
Ignoring security and moderation, a major, real pain point once remote classrooms scaled up.

How would you handle students without reliable internet or devices?
How would you get teachers, often less tech-comfortable, to adopt new controls quickly?