Organizing a university exam has become increasingly difficult in recent years due to new requirements introduced by modern university courses to provide students with modern working environments. All this is coupled with the usual logistical problems. The COVID-19 pandemic, moreover, introduced the necessity to move services, tools, and resource-intensive programs from university laboratory workstations to students’ personal devices. Born to solve this intricate puzzle, the CrownLabs project is a modern cloud-native technology allowing the delivery of remote desktop services to a heterogeneous plethora of devices by offloading the program execution, hence the resource-related requirements, to remote servers. The project was born during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, by a group of students and volunteers at the Polytechnic University of Turin.