A Teachers 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 classs 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 to
Have 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 parents 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 teachers 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
teachers 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, weve worked with organizations involved in the design and assessment of these
standards, including Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and Illustrative Mathematics.
Additionally, weve 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 whats 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 classs 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, theyll see the mission
youve 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, well recommend new skills on their
dashboard based on what we think theyre ready to learn next. We use each students
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 students 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 youd 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 students 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 students 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 students 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 students name to see more details about their learning
progress.
Skill Progress Report
This report is particularly helpful for checking a students 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 students 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 classs overall performance and
identifying who is struggling, but it does not let you filter by mission.

Real Time Report

See your classs 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 If students have 1:1 devices or are in a
(1:1 devices or station rotation)
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.
 Use the Skill Progress reports to pair a
Peer Tutoring
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
others 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

Our privacy policy is fueled by our commitment to the following Privacy Principles:
Were deeply committed to creating a safe and secure online environment for you.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We established ourselves as a not-
for-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 Academys 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 students
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