A Teacher’s How-To Guide

Table of Contents Khan Academy Overview

SETTING UP YOUR KHAN ACADEMY ACCOUNT

Set up your account and class via khanacademy.org

Make sure your account is a “Teacher” account

How students can add or accept a coach

HOW STUDENTS WORK THROUGH CONTENT ON KHAN ACADEMY

Overview of Khan Academy “missions”

What is in a particular mission

Assigning a mission to your class

Changing a class’s mission

How students can find and add additional missions

Completing a mission

How mission content aligns with Common Core

Video of the student experience working through a mission

Overview coach recommendations

Make a recommendation

Make multiple recommendations for an individual student

Tracking your coach recommendations

HOW TO USE DATA ON KHAN ACADEMY TO SUPPORT YOUR INSTRUCTION

Coach Reports: cheat sheet

Student Progress Report

Skill Progress Report

Activity Report

Grid Report

Real Time Report

Guide to progress report for learners

HOW TO GET STARTED WITH KHAN ACADEMY IN YOUR CLASSROOM

Classroom strategies

How to motivate and celebrate students

Common challenges and possible solutions

ADDITIONAL KHAN ACADEMY INFORMATION

Privacy on Khan Academy

Khan Academy Vocabulary Primer

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Khan Academy Overview

Teachers across the country and world use Khan Academy to more efficiently meet the academic needs of their students. Khan Academy has over 150,000 exercises especially created for the Common Core and across all subject areas. Khan Academy units are comprehensive and deep and have been vetted by the authors of the standards. Whether for homework or in-class problem solving, these exercises give your students immediate feedback and solutions, as well as standards-aligned video assistance. This saves valuable time for the teacher while ensuring that students have practice with the best coverage of curriculum tasks.

SETTING UP YOUR KHAN ACADEMY ACCOUNT

Go to www.khanacademy.org and click “Teachers, start here” button

Sign up via email using your school email address

After logging in, click your name at the top right.

Select "Add students" or "Your students".

Click the green "Add a class" button.

Note: You may need to scroll to the bottom of your

teacher dashboard to find it.

Follow the prompts to name your class (i.e. 10th

grade math - Period 2), click “Create class”, then

“Select a mission for your class”.

You're almost done!

Now, you should see a couple of different

options to add your students:

a) “Add students with emails” (recommended)

b) “Or share your class code”

c) “For students without emails”

a) Add students with email

(recommended)

Enter students’ school emails

Click “Invite students”

Jump to the “How students can add or accept a coach” heading, below, to see how you can instruct students to accept your invitation.

b) Share your class code

You can find your class code on the class banner at the top of your screen, or on the right side of your screen.

Once students create accounts, instruct them toHave your students use the instructions on “How to add your coach” and add your class code.

Jump to the “How students can add or accept a coach” heading, below, to see how you can instruct students to add you as a coach using your class code.

c) Add students without email

Note: We only recommend using this feature if your students do NOT have school email addresses.

Create student usernames.

Click “Next”

Use the pre-populated password [or

create one]

Add parent’s email [optional unless under the age of 13]

Click “Create accounts”

Click “Print”

*Make sure you PRINT and SAVE the username and password in case your student forgets their password. You will NOT be able to retrieve these passwords again.

Make sure your account is a “Teacher” account

When logged in to www.KhanAcademy.org, click on your name in the upper right corner and select “Settings”:

Near the bottom of the “Settings” page, under “Roles”, be sure you have selected “Teacher”:

How students can add or accept a coach

If using Clever, log in through their Clever dashboard and you will automatically be signed into your teacher’s class

If using the website sign up flow, go to www.khanacademy.org and click “Start learning now” button

Instruct students to create a Khan Academy account with their school email.

Important: we advise students over 13 years old to create an account using the “Sign up with email” link, NOT the red Google button. This will avoid any potential issues students may face with Google Apps for Edu, including an inability to add coaches that do not share their identical email domain (i.e @schools.nycdoe.org).

If students are 13 or younger and your school has Google Apps for Edu email addresses, we advise that they use the “Sign up with Google” red button so that they can sync with coaches that are using the same verified email domain.

If your teacher has already added you to his or her class, you should see a notification at the top right of your screen

Click on the notification and accept your teacher as a coach. You are now done accepting your coach!

If you do not see a notification, click your name at the top right of your screen.

Click “Profile”

Click “Coaches” to see a list of your coaches

Follow the prompts on the left to add a coach, either with the class code or the teacher’s email address.

HOW STUDENTS WORK THROUGH CONTENT ON KHAN ACADEMY

Overview of Khan Academy “missions”

A mission is a curated set of content that users can access on their learning dashboard. Missions guide learners through a specific grade level or subject in a personalized way.

Each math mission on Khan Academy provides thorough coverage of a particular grade level or subject. Additionally, most of our missions include missions foundations, which provide a quick review of prerequisites and check learners’ preparedness for grade- or subject-level material.

All the exercises for our math missions are created and reviewed by experienced math educators. To ensure that our missions include comprehensive coverage of the Common Core, we’ve worked with

organizations involved in the design and assessment of these standards, including Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and Illustrative Mathematics. Additionally, we’ve implemented a rigorous continuous improvement process to ensure that all our missions are refined on an ongoing basis.

What is in a particular mission

The best way to see what’s in a mission is to try it out yourself!

You can access any mission on Khan Academy from the “Subjects” menu at the top left of your screen.

Select any subject or grade.

Select a topic heading

Click the “mission” tab in the header

Click “Start” for the “Mission Warm-Up”

Now start your mission!

Assigning a mission to your class

Choosing a mission for your Khan Academy class simply recommends a mission to your students and sets this mission as your class's default when you view your students' progress. Your students can choose any mission, and they can work on multiple missions at once!

You are prompted to assign a default mission to your full class after adding the class. Your reports for this class will automatically show students’ progress through this mission. Please reference “Setting up your account and class on www.khanacademy.org.

Changing a class’s mission

Log into your khanacademy.org account. Select your username at the top right and click “Your students.” This will lead you to your coach dashboard.

Click “Manage Class.”

Your class list will open. Click the mission icon at the top left to open a menu like the one on the next page.

Click the mission you want to select for this class.

The next time the students in this class log in, they will see a notification at the top right of their screen. When a student clicks the notification icon, they’ll see the mission you’ve chosen for their class. They will have the choice to either start the mission or ignore your recommendation

How students can find and add additional missions

In order for your students to get started on a mission, you do not need to recommend it to them. As students complete skills within your mission, we’ll recommend new skills on their dashboard based on what we think they’re ready to learn next. We use each student’s unique math history on Khan Academy to make the very best recommendations. Our goal is to provide a personalized path for all learners as they work through various subjects and grade levels.

They are free to use the “Subjects” menu at the top left of the screen to start a math mission, and they can be in multiple missions at the same time! When students login, they will automatically see their learning homescreen. If not, they can click the Khan Academy icon in the top middle of their screen to return see all of the missions they are currently working on completing.

Note: teachers have a separate homepage. To access the missions you are working on, click on your name in the top right corner, then “Learning home”.

In order to add a new mission, they can click “Subjects” at the top left of the screen and click on “Math by subject” or “Math by grade”. For this High School pilot, students can click on “High School” under “Math by grade”.

Next, they can click any subject heading that they would like to explore further. For example, if they were interested in focusing on Mathematics I aligned to the Common Core State Standards, they should scroll down and select that heading.

On the next screen, click the “Mission” link in the heading and students will be able to begin their mission. It will now be added to their learning homepage so that they can easily resume in the future!

Completing a mission

A mission is complete once a student masters all skills within it - including mission foundations. To master skills, st need to do mastery challenges on a regular basis. Mastery challenges mix together different types of problems and space them across days to helps you retain your math skills over time.

How mission content aligns with Common Core

Check out what content is connected with the Common Core. https://www.khanacademy.org/commoncore

Overview coach recommendations

As a coach, you can recommend a skill from any math mission to a student or group. Once they practice it, it will be prioritized in mastery challenges for that mission.

Note: You cannot make coach recommendations for videos, only for skills. You also cannot recommend skills from any other mission besides math.

Make a recommendation

Below is the most common way coaches make recommendations. With this method, you can view which skill or topic you want to recommend, and recommend it to any number of students within your class.

Once you are logged in, click your username on the top right. In the dropdown, select Your students to access your teacher homepage.

Click Skill Progress at the top of the screen or next to the student’s class.

If you know which skill/topic you are looking for, click Find topic or skill at the top and type it in.Otherwise, select the topic to see its list of skills.

Click the skill you’d like to recommend and select Recommend to students that need practice on the bottom right of the skill.

Use the checkboxes next to the students’ names to select which students receive your recommendation.

If you would like to set a due date or adjust the number of problems students must answer correctly in a row, click Recommendation options.Press the green Recommend students button to confirm.

*NOTE: If you see a red "!" next to your student's name in this report, this means that they have removed your recommendation.

Make multiple recommendations for an individual student

This method is better suited for making several tailored recommendations for an individual student.

After you are logged in, click your username on the top right, then click Your students to access your coach homepage.

Click Student Progress at the top of the screen or next to the student’s class.

On the bottom left, select a student. Click Make a recommendation on the right-hand side.Select skills of your choice using the search bar and checkboxes.

Select the number of problems the student must answer correctly in a row. If desired, set a due date.

Click Recommend to your student to confirm.

Note: Students over 13 can become their own coaches and make coach recommendations to themselves, specifying 3 questions in a row instead of 5. If you want them to do 5 in a row, be sure to make a recommendation for each skill. Your recommendation will not show up as completed until the student has done the required 5.

What your students see

Your student will see your recommendations on their mission dashboards, regardless of which mission they choose. Recommendations will be prioritized by their due dates and order of assignment.

Tracking your coach recommendations

Click Student Progress at the top of the screen or next to the student’s class.

Select a student in the bottom left box.

Click the Recommendations tab. Recommendations the student have completed will be highlighted in green.

Deleting recommendations: If you would like to delete a coach recommendation, click the small X to delete it. If you want to delete the same recommendation(s) for many students, it may be easier to ask your students to remove the recommendations themselves.

Note: You can only delete recommendations you have made yourself, not those by other coaches or the student.

HOW TO USE DATA ON KHAN ACADEMY TO SUPPORT YOUR INSTRUCTION

We provide a wealth of data about student progress via “coach reports”. Coach reports show how students are spending time on Khan Academy, where they are struggling, and where they are excelling. They also provide a way to assign specific skills to students within their mission.

Teachers use coach reports to assess student progress and, when appropriate, target instruction and intervention. We encourage you to use the coach reports to support your practice in whatever way best suits you!

Coach Reports: cheat sheet

To access coach reports, click “Khan Academy” in the top middle of your screen to return to your teacher homepage and then use the menu at the top of the screen.

Student Progress Report

This report is most useful to get a quick summary of your class, as well as to delve into an individual student’s progress. It summarizes stats including how many exercises each student is struggling with, total number of skills mastered, and energy points. On the left side, sort information by clicking the top of each column. Download a spreadsheet by clicking in the upper right. Click a student’s name to see more details about their learning progress.

Skill Progress Report

This report is particularly helpful for checking a student’s status on individual skills and for grouping students for skill-based activities or identifying which students need additional support such as 1-1 time with the teacher, peer tutoring, or small groups. The most used filter is to select specific skills. Each skill is represented by a color-coded bar. Bars can be expanded to show students’ performance level for each skill. The report is arranged by topics.

Activity Report

Shows how much time students spent on Khan Academy videos and exercises during and outside of school during a specific timeframe. School hours are set as 8am to 3pm for your time zone. Hover over bars to see more details. You can filter by class and date.

Grid Report

This report shows each student’s performance level on each skill. You can filter by date, class, skill, topic, keyword, and struggling status. Hover over a box to get additional details. This report is helpful for getting a snapshot of your class’s overall performance and identifying who is struggling, but it does not let you filter by mission.

Real Time Report

See your class’s total energy points and a live rolling average of points earned per minute. Many coaches use this report with groups of students to encourage activity or as the basis for groups games in class.

Guide to progress report for learners

Click on this PDF and scroll to page 5 to find a guide for how your students can monitor their own progress from their learner dashboard!

HOW TO GET STARTED WITH KHAN ACADEMY IN YOUR CLASSROOM

In an ideal Khan Academy learning environment, students are not all silently working on laptops. Instead,

the group is dynamic, joyful, and full of social interaction! A few students may attend a seminar with a

coach while another group works on a project; some students tutor their peers while others work alone.

Check out the instructional strategies below to get ideas for what might work for your students.

Classroom strategies

Students work at their own pace (1:1 devices or station rotation)

If students have 1:1 devices or are in a computer

lab, they can all work on KA at their own pace!

If you are limited by devices, create stations that

students can rotate through. We recommend at

least 30 min in each station so that students have

ample time to actually practice problems and

watch videos. At the Khan Academy station,

students can work on their corresponding

missions, skills aligned to class lessons, or a mix of

both! During rotations, see how your students are

progressing and intervene when appropriate. If

you are unable to help students as they use Khan

Academy, encouraging peer tutoring is a way to

help the students help themselves as they learn.

Some teachers have used the students’ mission

completion percentages as an input to their final

grade, and have seen that work well as a

motivation factor.

One-on-one intervention Find a skill with which a student is struggling. Look

at the student's problem history to diagnose errors

or misconceptions and prompt the student to

discover the answer.

Go to the Student Progress report and use

student's individual report to review goals, discuss

how the student has spent their time on Khan

Academy, or talk about other relevant topics

Small group instruction Use the Skill Progress report to figure out which

students need a seminar to reinforce a certain

concept.

Create groups based on skill level and allow

students within each group to work together on

the concepts with which they are struggling.

Create mixed-ability groups. Give each group one

"expert" who can guide their peers in learning

specific concepts.

Peer Tutoring Use the Skill Progress reports to pair a student

who is struggling with a particular skill with a

student who has mastered it.

Create a poster with two columns - "I need help

with…" and "I can help with…" or designate an area

on your whiteboard for this purpose. Students can

use these lists to request and offer help.

Projects Using coach reports, create groups based on skill

level and have each group work on a different

project.

When students finish a set of Khan Academy skills,

have them start a related project. You can prepare

several projects ahead of time and have students

complete them when ready.

Homework Students can move through their subject-level

mission at their own pace when they practice

outside of the classroom.

How to motivate and celebrate students

Students are motivated when they feel like they're part of a community working toward a big goal. Setting

class goals that are measurable, ambitious, and realistic and then implementing rewards and incentives are

a few ways to accomplish this.

Some teachers have used the following approaches with their students:

● Keep a poster up that celebrates students who have mastered 10 mission-level skills, 20 mission-

level skills, etc.

● Throw a pizza party when everyone has reached 50% mission completion.

● Encourage healthy competition between classes by seeing which class has made the most mission

progress as a group.

● Give out certificates to students who completed their missions.

● Hold a "rocket run": 1) Divide the class into teams 2) Project the Real Time report 3) Give one team

three minutes to earn as many energy points as possible while other teams watch or create

posters to cheer each other on 4) Repeat for all teams 5) The team with the most points wins!

Reward your students for using Khan Academy with a personalized certificate! Use the form fields available to customize the award title, student name, and description. Click here for the certificate!

● Mission Captain: This certificate is for the student who has completed the most of their Khan

Academy mission this semester. Your determination, hard work, and math skills are out of this

world. Keep your game up!

● Master Challenger: This certificate is awarded to the student who has mastered the most skills on

Khan Academy. Your determination and hard work are out of this world. Keep your game up!

● The Grand Tutor: This certificate is awarded to the student who has been an outstanding peer

tutor. Thank you for your hard work and generosity. Your peers and I appreciate all of your help!

Here are some motivation and celebration examples from teachers:

Posters to track student progress

(Top photo) This teacher downloaded top energy points earners and skills mastered for that week

and all time. Each week served as motivation for all students since any student could see themselves

reach the top each week. The all time list was motivating for top-performing students

(Bottom photo) This poster tracks how many skills each student masters-- since each student is

moving at his or her own pace, this allows the class to celebrate each other’s work without comparing which specific skills some students currently know

and others do not.

Tracking student badges earned

“I printed out some badges around mastered skills and energy points (probably broke some fire code by having it on my blinds!) and would put the name

of the student and the date they attained the badge. I updated it monthly.”

“When students would unlock badges on Khan Academy digitally, I made physical copies (purple colored) of the badges as well and they were able to add it to our classroom bulletin board. Students

loved being able to visually see their progress.”

Here is the link to NEW Khan Academy posters that you can use to decorate your bulletin boards.

Partnering up for peer tutoring

Common challenges and possible solutions

Below are some of the most common challenges that teachers encounter when using Khan Academy with

their students. Feel free to go through them and consider how you would handle each situation, or use this

list to spark discussions with other teachers.

Of course, every student is different, and strategies that succeed with some may not work with others. We

encourage you to adjust these strategies to suit your specific needs and to add your own ideas to the list!

Fixing the skill gaps

● Recommend that students who are struggling with specific topics (i.e. negative numbers and

fractions) work on related skills on Khan Academy.

● Use one-on-one and small-group sessions to help struggling students master negative numbers

and fractions.

● Use peer tutoring to enable students to help each other.

Classroom management opportunities

● Use YouTube for Schools to filter YouTube for educational content only.

● Use the Activity report to track how students are using their Khan Academy time, and use class

incentives (grades, points, rewards, etc.) to motivate students to use this time responsibly.

Cultivating a specific classroom culture

● Talk to your class about self-pacing. Bring in examples from outside school (e.g., sports, music,

etc.) to make it clear that everyone learns at different paces, and that's just fine.

● Celebrate each student's individual success by praising students who work hard.

● Close class on some days by having students share something they learned, and praise students

for their effort.

Students who are discouraged

● Teach him (as well as your other students) about the growth mindset. Find our lesson plan here.

● Look up his progress in your coach reports and praise his hard work, including any badges he has

earned that might highlight his perseverance and success.

● Have him set his own goals on Khan Academy. Allow him to select any skills (perhaps even outside

math) that he'd like to tackle, and praise him for showing initiative.

● Ask him to work with a motivated student on a project or Khan Academy.

● Identify whether he has gaps in his math background and enable him to fill those gaps (even if they

are below grade level) so that he can become successful.

Students who is ready for more advanced math content

● Encourage her to move on to more advanced content on Khan Academy. Track her progress and

praise her motivation.

● To reinforce her knowledge, ask her to help her peers with topics they're struggling with. Just

make sure she still has time to learn new concepts!

● Challenge her with interesting projects and interdisciplinary learning opportunities, such as Khan

Academy's computer programming tutorials.

ADDITIONAL KHAN ACADEMY INFORMATION

Privacy on Khan Academy

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profit organization so that our mission of education and your trust will not be in conflict with a for-profit motive.

● We strive to provide you with access to and control over the information you give us, and we take the protection of your information very seriously.

● We take extra precautions for our younger learners under the age of 13, including restricting child accounts to automatically block features that would allow a child to post or disclose personal information.

● We do not advertise on Khan Academy. We use your information to provide you with a better learning experience, not to sell you products.

If you'd like further information on how we handle privacy on Khan Academy, please refer to our privacy policy.

Khan Academy Vocabulary Primer

New to Khan Academy? This quick run down of Khan Academy lingo may help!● Avatars: Khan Academy characters that students use to customize their profiles; students choose

their favorite avatar and earn energy points to unlock more avatar options● Badges: incentives used to encourage students for mastery and practice, completion of missions,

as well as for participating positively in the Khan Academy community. Check out all the cool badges here.

● Class Code: found in Coach Reports, found on the Dashboard and Manage Students tabs of Coach Reports; a unique code generated automatically when each class is created; students may simply add themselves to a class using the class code

● Coach: teacher, parent, or any person who uses Khan Academy to help, support, and monitor the progress of students who have accepted them as their coach

● Coach Reports: the central hub (or dashboard) where a teacher or coach can manage their class rosters, make skills recommendations for students, and monitor student progress: coach reports lets a teacher see where students are spending their time, where they are struggling, and where they are excelling - want to learn more about Coach Reports? Check out these helpful instructions.

● Energy Points:  a measure of effort on Khan Academy; points are awarded for various learning activities like practicing exercises, watching a video, or creating a CS program, as well as for exhibiting positive character strengths like asking and answering questions in the Khan Academy community (for students 13 years, and older)

● Exercises: 100,000+ Common Core-aligned exercises to practice grammar and mathematics from early math through calculus, and more

● Manage Class: found in Coach Reports, where a teacher or coach adds makes changes to the class roster

● Mastery Challenges: a set of challenge questions that pull from various skills, requiring a student to demonstrate mastery of a skill after a period of rest from practicing the skill, in order to truly demonstrate mastery; taking Mastery Challenges is the only way for students to achieve the “Mastered” status level for each math skill

● Mastery Levels: struggling, needs practice, practiced, level one, level two, mastered● Mastery System: the educational philosophy that Khan Academy follows in which students

proceed to the next topic not in accordance with a fixed calendar, but only after they have completely mastered the necessary prerequisites

● Missions: some of Khan Academy’s grade levels and classes (e.g. 3rd Grade and Geometry) have associated math “missions” that allow students to learn at their own pace and require the mastery of skills before students may move on to the next higher order skill, all while earning energy points and badges as they master skills and complete missions

● Mission Warm-Up: a few questions at the beginning of each mission that helps Khan Academy figure out where to start students on the mission

● Profile: where a student goes to take pride in viewing all of their progress on Khan Academy! Provides a dashboard of: mission progress, points, badges, CS programs, community participation

(for students 13 years, and older) and more. Students also find their teacher or coach recommendations here.

● Recommendations: mechanism for teachers and coaches to assign skills to a student or group of students

● Skill Progress: found in Coach Reports, a report that provides insight into each student’s mastery level on each skill, helping teachers and coaches identify which students need additional support

● Streak: we like to reward persistence! Khan Academy rewards students with points for a streak of questions answered correctly, and continuous days of work

● Student Progress: found in Coach Reports, provides a report outlining a quick summary of each class as a whole, as well as the progress of each individual student

● Videos: Khan Academy has 13,000+ instructional videos, including 5000 math videos tightly aligned with the Common Core, covering early math to calculus and more