Khan for Educators: Student experience

TL;DR

Explore the student experience on Khan Academy, including their learner homepage, assignments, course mastery, and skill levels.

Transcript

• Hi, I'm Meaghan from Khan Academy and in this video, we're going to walk you through the learner, or student, experience. At Kahn Academy, we believe that everyone is a learner. From the teacher perspective, all of your students are learners and you can be as well. To better understand the student experience on Khan Academy, log into your Khan Ac... Read More

Key Insights

• 🧑‍🎓 Khan Academy provides a learner homepage for students, offering an overview of their classes, assignments, and course mastery goals.
• 🫵 Students can easily access their upcoming assignments, track their progress towards mastery goals, and view their activity log.
• 🧑‍🎓 Teachers have access to the same progress report as students, promoting accountability and facilitating discussions on progress.
• 🧑‍🎓 Exercises and assessments on Khan Academy provide opportunities for students to practice and review skills in isolation or mixed contexts.
• 🧑‍🎓 Skill levels on Khan Academy are determined based on students' performance and are designated as "Attempted, Familiar, Proficient, or Master."
• 👾 Mastery challenges offer students a chance to review and practice previously learned skills, promoting personalized space repetition and minimizing learning loss.
• 👻 Assignments from teachers are displayed on the learner homepage, allowing students to easily access and complete them.

Questions & Answers

Q: How can teachers view their students' progress on Khan Academy?

Teachers can access the same progress report as students by clicking on a student's profile. This allows for accountability and facilitates teacher-student conferences on progress.

Q: What is the difference between exercises and assessments on Khan Academy?

Exercises are opportunities for students to learn single skills in isolation, while assessments provide mixed skill review. Quizzes are mixed review of skills in a lesson, unit tests are mixed review of skills within an entire unit, and course challenges are mixed review of skills from the entire course.

Q: How are skill levels determined on Khan Academy?

Khan Academy assesses students' skill levels and designates them as "Attempted, Familiar, Proficient, or Master." Each skill has a tower visual that displays the level, with one brick for "Familiar," two for "Proficient," and an unlocked crown for "Mastered."

Q: What are mastery challenges on Khan Academy?

Mastery challenges are a way for students to review and practice previously learned skills in a course. They unlock after achieving "Familiar" on three or more skills and promote personalized space repetition to improve knowledge retention.

Summary & Key Takeaways

• Khan Academy believes that everyone is a learner, and this video walks you through the student experience on their platform.

• The learner homepage is the first thing students see when they log in, and it displays their classes, assignments, and course mastery goals.

• Students can access upcoming assignments, track their progress, and view their activity log. They can also join new classes and see their recent activity, energy points, and earned badges.