PRESS RELEASE – for immediate release
Oslo, 11 November 2026, 11:00 – 108 years since the peace agreement at Versailles was signed.
Skolekunnskap 1.2 is now available. It lets students and teachers use an AI language model that runs locally on the school’s own PC. Questions and answers are never sent to external cloud services.
Many schools want to use artificial intelligence in teaching, but they face hard privacy questions: Where do the students’ questions end up, and who gets access to them? Skolekunnskap answers this by moving the entire AI onto the school’s own machine. The Llama 3.2 language model runs locally, and once installed, the solution also works completely without internet access.
How it works
Skolekunnskap consists of three components that work together on one PC:
Podman runs the software in isolated containers.
Ollama runs the Llama 3.2 language model and can only be reached from the PC itself, not from the rest of the school network.
Skolekunnskap-installasjon.exe is opened in Windows 11.
The Skolekunnskap web page is opened in Firefox. This is where students type their questions and get answers from the model.
The solution can be installed on GNU/Skolelinux, Fedora, macOS and Windows 11. Windows 11 has its own installer. The PC needs at least 8 GB of free disk space. 15 GB of free space and 16 GB of RAM are recommended.
Privacy first
“Students’ questions belong in the classroom, not on servers abroad. With Skolekunnskap, schools can let students explore AI without handing over data to Meta, Ollama or other vendors,” says Ole Aamot, developer of Skolekunnskap.
The school is still responsible for how the solution is used. Among other things, the guide recommends that schools:
follow the school owner’s procedures for privacy and AI, and check with the data protection officer whether a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) is needed
teach students not to enter names, health information or other personal data
always check the answers, since language models can make up facts and answer less well in Norwegian than in English
decide in advance how AI may be used in assignments and assessment
A tool for learning, not shortcuts
Skolekunnskap is designed to support learning. Teachers are encouraged to have students ask specific questions and request explanations rather than ready-made answers, and to check facts against the textbook and other sources.
New in version 1.2
The web page now connects to the language model on all supported operating systems.
Ollama is bound to the PC itself (127.0.0.1), so the model can’t be reached from other machines on the school network.
The language model has been updated to Llama 3.2.
Availability
Skolekunnskap and its user guide are available free of charge at www.skolekunnskap.no. The guide is written for IT administrators and teachers and explains installation, daily operation, troubleshooting and uninstallation step by step.
Llama 3.2 is licensed under Meta’s Llama 3.2 Community License.
About Skolekunnskap
Skolekunnskap was developed by Ole Kristian Aamot to give Norwegian schools a safe, local and affordable way to adopt generative AI. It is built on free and open-source software.
Press contact
Ole Kristian Aamot
Email: oka@oka.no
Phone: +47 417 32 002
Website: https://www.skolekunnskap.no/
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