- Hi everyone, this is Jeremy
Schifeling from Khan Academy.
Thanks so much for taking time
to join me in this big week,
either before the start of school
or in the middle of the start of school,
depending on where you're calling from,
wherever you are in your
own educational journey
this school year,
I'm really excited that you joined us
for our student experience demo.
'Cause this all about a chance
to basically go behind the curtain
and see what your students
see on Khan Academy
so you can make the most
of this tool this year.
That being said, just a couple of things
to get started here.
I wanna call out, as always,
that like every Khan Academy webinar,
we will be recording the
session and then sharing
it in your email in about an hour.
So, that'll happen automatically
whether you can join it
for the whole session
or whether you have to
run out and make dinner
or anything else.
So, have no fear, you will have
that in your inbox shortly.
In the meantime,
you can even get the slides themselves
through the handout section right now
on the GoToWebinar control panel.
So, if you're really eager like me
to see where we're headed,
feel free to grab that PDF
under the handouts section.
And then finally, because
just like last week's session,
I wanna make this as
interactive as possible,
please, please, please make sure
that you're logged into
your Khan Academy account.
That way you can follow along
and actually experience everything
just the same way that your students do.
And I'll make it a really fun session
and a really powerful one as well.
That being said,
I wanna sort of cut to the chase here
and talk about one of our big philosophies
here at Khan Academy
which is that great teaching
involves great empathy.
I love this quote from Ann Lieberman
which is that great teachers
don't just teach kids
and lecture kids, they
empathize with kids.
They respect them.
They understand where they're coming from
and they serve those needs
through that empathy.
And I think to put it in a more sort of
a practical standpoint or
a practical perspective,
what I've heard from a lot of educators
is I never really got Khan Academy
until I tried using it as a student,
either for my own courses in college,
or my own teacher test prep,
or just trying to understand
what my students were saying.
That was the light bulb moment.
That's when I got it.
And so, please put yourself
into your students' shoes
for the next 25 minutes or so,
and experience what
your students experience
so that way you can give them
the best possible experience this fall.
To get things started, we're gonna begin
with you joining my
classroom on Khan Academy,
the same way that students might set up
for your own classroom.
So again, if you're already
logged into Khan Academy,
all you wanna do is go
to bit.ly/khaninvite.
I'm gonna actually show you
what that looks like over here.
Check this out.
Here I have my teacher accounts set up
and what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna come over here
to bit.ly/khaninvite.
I'm also gonna put that in
the chat just so you can click
the link for even easier access.
And once you're over there,
what you will see is this
little invitation popup.
And it's gonna say, hey,
you're joining the
student experience demo.
Are you ready to plug into this classroom?
And I know it might seem a little strange,
like what is this classroom
that Jeremy has set up,
but just roll with me a little bit here.
Go ahead and click join
student experience demo.
And you will now be a registered
member of our sample class.
And I will give you two minutes
to do the same on your side.
I wish, I wish, I wish I could play
some "Jeopardy!" music right now,
but at the very least just
follow the invites on the screen.
Bit.ly/khaninvite, join my class
and if you have any questions whatsoever,
feel free to ask them
using the question section
of the GoToWebinar control panel.
I'm happy to answer those live
and over texts as we go along.
So again, join my class and
that'll be the first step
towards seeing what your students see.
Looks like no questions coming
in yet which is awesome.
Definitely probably not gonna be identical
to the experience your students have.
Mine always ask questions
about everything,
but hopefully that means
everyone is making good progress
and joining my class.
And what you'll be able
to see as a teacher,
whether you're doing this over
Zoom or doing this in person,
is you'll be able to see students
coming into your class in real time.
So, check this out.
I'm gonna come over to my roster.
This is the student experience demo.
I'm gonna click refresh.
And what you're gonna see
now is that all the teachers
across the country who are
involved in this webinar,
they have just joined this class
which is pretty incredible.
So, sure enough, they're coming in.
Ally's here, Alyssa's here,
Christine's here, Diane's here.
Thank you all so much.
And what I'm gonna do
is actually include you
in an assignment shortly,
but I will get back to that in a moment.
I wanna answer a couple of questions,
'cause folks are asking, Delayla says,
it looks like I'm still
my teacher's account.
Absolutely.
What you might've noticed
in my demo window here
is that after you joined my class,
Khan always kicks you back
to your teacher home page
and that kind of keeps you centered
on the teacher experience,
but have no fear,
I'm gonna show you where
to actually confirm
that you are now a member
of my class as a learner.
Great question Delayla.
Diane had the same question, great point.
Melissa said the same.
So sorry, I didn't call that out.
My apologies, but yeah, you will come back
to your teacher dashboard,
but have no fear,
you are now registered for my class
and it's showing up on
the screen right here.
So, I think at this point
everyone's had a chance to join.
We have about 30 students
from across the country
which is awesome.
So, thank you all for joining.
What I wanna do now is do
a couple things for you.
So, first of all,
just to give you a sense of how
you might do this on your own side,
I'm gonna make my screen a little larger
so it's easier to see.
And, if you ever wanna
share your own class code
with your students,
all you have to do is
come into your classroom
in Khan Academy, come
over to the students tab
right down here under admin
and then there's this
nice share class code link
right in the upper right hand corner.
By clicking here, I can grab the code
just like the one I gave you.
Now, I put it behind a fancy
little bookmark from bit.ly,
but you can share this link
or whatever form you want
with your students and they can join
the exact same way you did.
You could even print these instructions
if you wanna share them in a different way
or different languages,
but this is the easiest way
to get your students started.
So, there's your class code.
There's your link.
Then, like I said, you can
see your students coming in
in real time, which is awesome.
And now that you have your
students here and you say,
okay, this all looks really good.
Ally's here, Arlene's here, Diane's here.
Let me actually get you off to
the races with an assignment.
So, I'm gonna come over
to the assign section.
What I'm gonna do is just walk you through
what the teacher is saying
now that her students or
his students are enrolled.
I come down here, I say, you know what?
I'm gonna start you off,
maybe in this case, you know what?
I'm gonna switch things up.
I'm gonna start you off
with a grammar lesson
because I got some feedback
at my last webinar, Jeremy,
I love all this stuff you're doing,
but it's too much math, math, math.
Let's shake it up a little bit.
You're absolutely right.
So, let's do a grammar lesson right now.
Let's focus on identifying nouns.
I come over to a sign,
I click this little check
box, I click assign one.
I'm gonna say all of
my students in my class
are gonna get this assignment.
So, here we go.
All students you have till tomorrow,
although we're gonna do it right now.
I'm gonna have you all
do the same question set
so we can review together as a class,
which is pretty powerful
over video conference.
And I'm gonna assign that right now.
And so, if we switch back
into our student experience,
you've gone from enrolling in my class
to now having a chance to
actually get information
and assignments as a student.
Now, to get there, what I want you to do
is a switch from your teacher view,
kind of like the teacher
hat that you're wearing,
into student mode and
see your student view.
And the way you're gonna do that,
and I'll walk you through
it right here on my screen,
is you're gonna come over here.
You're going to come up to your name
in the upper right hand corner.
I'm gonna actually shrink it a little bit
so you can see that.
So, I have Salvador.
You might be Diane, you might
be Eileen, whatever it is,
you're gonna click right in
the upper right hand corner
and then you're gonna click learner home.
And basically what this is
telling Khan Academy is,
hey, I'm about to switch identities.
I'm a teacher and a learner.
And in this case, I wanna
focus on the learner view.
So, learner home is where you want to go
and if you've actually done it,
what you should now see
is under the student experience demo,
you will see this assignment
that I've just given,
which is identifying nouns.
And, just to reiterate, as I
have here in this teacher note,
if you click your name one more time,
you'll notice that there
are these notifications
that are letting you know
that you've just received this assignment.
So, if you click the notification link,
you can see that an
assignment has come in.
This is one way that you can
communicate with students.
Obviously you can let them
know about assignments verbally
during a zoom Session,
via Remind, via ClassDojo,
via Google Classroom, all
sorts of different ways,
but fundamentally every
time you make an assignment,
it'll pop up in the notification section.
And, so now, to move
on to the last section,
I wanna give you a chance to
get into your student view.
So, if you haven't done this already,
take one minute right
now and click your name
and then click into learner home.
And your time starts now.
I've always wanted to say that.
Always wanted to be a game show host.
Come on into your student view.
Again, you're coming over to your name
and you're clicking learner home
and that'll take you right there.
Just to make sure
everyone's on the same page
before we move forward,
I'm gonna answer some questions.
Regina did get a little prompt
that said I was not able
to get into the session.
It asked me to create an account
or log into my existing account.
And that's totally fine.
If you don't wanna use your
existing teacher account,
you can always create
a new student account,
maybe with your personal
Gmail, for instance,
for the purposes of this session.
Totally fine to keep it separate.
Great question, Regina.
About 15 seconds left.
Just you wanna make sure that everyone
is now in the learner home,
where you're gonna see your assignments
and you're gonna see all the interaction
with the teacher in this case.
And once the timer is up, we'll
move on to the next section.
Thank you all for being rockstar students.
I can tell this class is gonna go far.
Time's up.
Let's move on to the third step.
And that is a chance to
actually do the assignment.
And I know this might seem a little funny
to actually be doing the
work on Khan Academy,
as opposed to assigning the work.
But again, I think it's so important
to really see that fundamental thing
that your students experience
of what does an assignment look like?
How does it feel?
How do I get help when I'm stuck?
And so, what I would love for you to do
is do exactly what I'm gonna show you
on my screen right now,
which is I come over here
to my assignment section.
I say, aha, my teacher
has made this assignment,
identify nouns.
I scroll over,
I click the start button and
I'm literally just gonna go
through this and try to answer these
to the best of my abilities.
So, noun, not a noun, not a noun.
Check.
Get that nice little reward.
Move on to the next question
and what I'll challenge you
to do as you go through this
is to actually try getting
it wrong once in awhile
or asking for a hint just to see
what that experience looks like.
Especially with all
these students learning
over distance right now,
they may not always be able
to reach you with questions.
So, in that case,
how can you instruct them on
how to use the hint system
and the video system?
Well, first of all, try it out yourself
and then you'll be empowered
to really support them going forward.
So, spend about five minutes
going through it right now,
I'll start the timer.
And again, just to sort
of retrace my steps,
I'm in my learner home, I'm
going to my assignment section,
I'm clicking start.
And then I'm just literally
going through this
as a student would, one
question after another,
getting stuck sometimes, getting
hints, and getting a sense
of how this all feels
and how it all works.
Because once you understand that,
you can really translate
it for your students.
So, as you do that, again,
feel free to ask any questions
via the questions feature
in GoToWebinar, I'll be
happy to answer those live.
Delayla says, should we
watch the video also?
Totally up to you, Delayla.
If you're one of those superstar students
who's zooming ahead and you have time
to not only do the exercise
and watch the video, go for it,
get a sense of what those
Khan videos feel like.
Great question.
Christine is saying I can
get to the learner home,
but I can't see the assignment.
So, I just want to call this out.
You may have multiple courses here,
depending on how many
things you've signed up for
as a learner.
Definitely make sure that you come over
to the student experience demo
which is the name of my particular course.
Good question, Christine.
And, Melissa says, will
this link still be active,
so we can show the kids
the student view demo?
Absolutely.
I'm gonna leave this classroom up
for the entire academic year.
So, if you ever wanna log
back in and sort of reconnect
with this experience or share
it with your own students,
by all means,
and also know that you can certainly
do the same on your own end.
You can always create a sample classroom.
You can add yourself to it
and really see what students are saying.
We're making it easy for
your students to play around
in a kind of a sandbox
environment, if you will.
So, definitely feel free to take advantage
of all of these resources,
both now and in the future.
Thanks for asking that, Melissa.
We're about halfway through.
Hopefully you're having
fun getting in touch
with those old school grammar mechanics.
I know it's probably been awhile
unless you do teach grammar yourself,
but definitely fun to
see what our students see
and see the structure that's built in
as far as those rewards when
students are getting it right.
And also the support
structure that's in place
when they need a little extra help.
Sherry says, my school is not listed.
And what she's referring to is
a school picker that appears
at the very top of the
Khan Academy dashboard.
Let me show you what that looks like.
Here I am logged in as a teacher again.
It says add your school and
you may search in your zip code
and you may not find your school.
Absolutely no worries.
You can still use it a hundred percent.
We are working really hard to
get additional schools added
to this, so if you see any
trouble with it, Sherry,
please send us a request
after this webinar
and we'll try to get that school added.
I'm gonna show you how
to make that request
in about 10 minutes.
So, thanks for calling that out.
Let's see here.
Sherry is asking, if I am tutoring,
should this process work?
Absolutely.
Whether you're working with
five students or 150 students,
everything I'm showing
you is exactly the same.
And so, whether it's choosing
content for your students
or your tutees, making assignments,
everything can be done no matter
how many students you have.
Thanks for asking Sherry.
Let's see here, Tamara is saying,
is there a way to have my student access
the practice questions that I located
by doing a search on the
topic ideals of democracy?
I haven't seen a way to find
that from the student page.
Yeah, so such a good question.
One of those sort of powerful,
hidden things in Khan Academy
is that you can come in here
and you can search for whatever you want.
So, ideals of democracy, voila.
Here is the awesome
thing that Tamara found.
You can definitely go into your classroom
and add that as a class that you wanna use
and go through the full signup process
like I demoed about five minutes ago,
but what you can actually
do is from this page,
you can start to assign it.
So, check this out.
Here's this assign bar at the very top
and if we make this a little bit bigger,
you can blow this up on your screen.
I can say, aha, ideals of democracy.
This is the perfect piece of practice.
I'm gonna assign it to my
class, to these students.
I can give them the same
questions or different questions.
I can give them a clear deadline.
And that way, without even
going into the assignment mode,
you can assign something
the minute you find it.
So, a really powerful way to
immediately get that practice
into your students' hands.
Hopefully that's helpful.
Good question, Tamara.
About 10 seconds left.
Lisa is asking what
would be a valuable way
to use Khan Academy for virtual learning?
Lisa, I would highly recommend
that you check out last week's webinar,
which is on our YouTube playlist
and I'll share a link later,
which gets into all this stuff
around using Khan Academy
during a Zoom session,
before a Zoom session,
after a Zoom session.
But, then the bottom line is,
you don't wanna have too much lecture
in that rare moment of
teacher-student interaction,
instead, you wanna make it really engaging
like Sal Khan talked about
in his New York Times op ed
a couple weeks ago.
And so, try to use Khan Academy to offload
some of that stuff.
Have the students watch
the video ahead of time,
have them do some practice ahead of time.
And that way, you can use
those virtual sessions
for lots of engagement,
where you make cold calls,
you ask questions, you give pop quizzes
and get students thinking in real time.
That's my advice.
Let me pause on the
questions for a second.
I'll come back to them, I promise.
In the interest of time, I
wanna now actually switch
from student mode into teacher mode
so you can see the fruits of your labor.
So, everyone's done the
assignment and by the way,
here's one really cool thing
that's unique to the fall
at Khan Academy is as you probably heard,
we have this cool
program called LearnStorm
which is like everything on Khan Academy,
a free program to motivate your students
to really be their best,
especially at this very tough moment
and to help celebrate as a
class, your progress together,
you can always come to
your LearnStorm tracker.
Check this out.
Your LearnStorm tracker
is always gonna be found
at the top of your Khan Academy dashboard.
So here I am, as a teacher,
I'm logged in and sure enough,
the very first thing is check my progress.
How am I doing on LearnStorm?
And you can literally
show this to your students
to get them so pumped up.
So, you come over here to
student experience demo,
to the name of our class.
I check for progress and check this out.
Watch this climb so fast as a tribute
to all the hard work you just did.
So, if you ever need a little extra way
to bring oomph and excitement
for the back to school season,
this is the way to say, hey,
we are all in this thing together.
And even though we may
be apart at this moment,
we are working together to do big things.
And you can track the progress
with this LearnStorm tool
and share that with your
class during a Zoom session
just by sharing your screen.
So, definitely check that out.
It's pretty fun.
Now, back to the flow.
So, you've done this
assignment as a student.
What would you do with that
information as a teacher?
Let's review this together.
I'm gonna come back to
my class and, again,
it's called student experience demo.
And this time, instead of going to assign,
I'm gonna go to scores.
I'm actually gonna make
this a little bit bigger
so it's a little easier to see.
I'm gonna refresh this.
I'm gonna check out the results
from all of your hard
work on this assignment.
Sorry to put everyone on the spot here,
but I do wanna showcase
some of the great stuff
you all have done.
So, go over to identifying nouns,
which is the exercise you just did.
And voila, check this out.
I love this so much because
it's kind of like x-ray vision
for teachers where you can
drill down to the question level
and figure out how things are going.
And so one of the things
that I immediately see
is that question one, you all are nailing,
26 out of 29 of you got
that on the very first try.
Fantastic.
Whereas question four was
maybe more of a struggle.
So, I wanna drill down to that question
and say, aha, I see that six students
got the incorrect answer so
maybe I reteach this one.
And, I go over things like
is a preposition a noun?
Is something like exciting
adjective, like creepy a noun?
And, I use it as a teaching moment to say,
I know a lot of us are
running into trouble here,
but let's solve it together.
Let's come together as a class
to address those
misconceptions and make sure
that we're all on the
same page moving forward.
And again, you can
definitely on your own time,
click in and see the exact students
who are correct or incorrect,
but for now Khan keeps it all anonymous
which is nice for you because
you can show your students
that you're paying attention to their work
and they are looking at
it as a class together
without calling out any one student.
Just a nice way to
bring the class together
around your shared work
and your shared experience.
So, I highly recommend going
into these assignment scores
to give that kind of
report out to your class.
We're gonna go back to our flow now.
What we've talked about so far
is getting started as a student,
going into your learner home,
doing your first assignment,
but if you've followed any of the things
that Sal Khan has been talking about
these last couple of
years, even pre-COVID,
you know that assignments are
just the tip of the iceberg.
One of the things that
we strongly believe in
at Khan Academy is the
power of course mastery
to really help students do their best,
especially in this difficult moment.
And that's the idea that
rather than just move together
in lock step and say, hey, half our class
is maybe not getting it
right, but that's okay
we've just gotta move forward.
Let's have each student
continue to work on that skill
until they reach mastery
so when they move on
to the next skill and the next unit,
they don't have those Swiss
cheese gaps in their foundations
and they move forward stronger
ad more confident than ever before.
So, if you wanna take
advantage of course mastery,
check this out.
I'm gonna come back into
my teacher dashboard
just to show you what this looks like.
I come into the course
mastery section over here,
so not assignments.
I click placement.
I'm gonna set a goal.
So, check this out.
I'm gonna say,
I wanna create a goal for the
40 new students in my class.
And I'm gonna say, instead
of focusing on grammar,
let's move to second grade math.
And I want you to master
this topic by let's say
the end of the school year,
so June 1st, give or take.
So, we create that goal.
And now, what's gonna happen on your end
is back in your learner
home you're gonna start
to see that filter in to
your course mastery section.
So, to show you what that looks like,
we're gonna switch back
into our learner view.
As you may recall,
we click our name in the
upper right hand corner.
We click learner home and this time voila,
a new section that's appeared,
before we had assignments
and we did the assignment.
That was great.
But, now there's course mastery
and to dig into course mastery
here's exactly what you do.
You can follow along on your own screen.
So, first of all, you pick second grade,
that's the goal for the year.
I want you to master this body of content,
all the related skills.
I click into that.
Now, if you are perhaps
a third grade teacher
and you wanna make sure
that your students master
second grade before moving on,
you can have them start
with a course challenge.
That's a quick way to recap
how they're doing at the start.
But for our purposes, let's say, no thanks
and let's just follow the blue buttons.
'Cause really, that's kind of
the digital cookie crumb trail
that you wanna teach your
students to always follow.
When in doubt, look for the blue.
So, in this case, we go to get
started under the first unit.
Then we go for the first blue button,
which is the first skill
of second grade math,
adding within 20 visually.
And again, we click the start button
and we dive right into
this practice session.
Let's go.
So, just like before,
I would love for you
to spend a few minutes
doing your first experience
of course mastery as a student
so you can see what that feels like.
So, I'm gonna start the timer over here.
And again, just to retrace my steps,
I was back here at my teacher dashboard
and I came to my name,
I came to learner home
and then I found out that
I had not just assignments,
but also course mastery.
I'm gonna refresh that,
voila there's course mastery.
I clicked second grade to dig
into this lofty goal we have.
Say no thanks to course challenge for now.
And then I just follow the blue buttons.
Get started and start this skill.
Now I'm off to the races.
So again, spend a few minutes
just going through that,
try getting a couple of answers right.
A couple wrong.
See how Khan Academy responds
and how it supports you along the way.
And, as you do that,
I'm gonna answer some
questions that have come in.
Let's see here.
Diane says, do you have a suggestion
for how to pick just one assignment
for a particular topic?
When I assigned a topic to a student,
it assigned to large number of assignments
and it became totally unmanageable
which overwhelmed the student.
And I feel your pain, Diane,
because this is one of
the biggest pitfalls
that I encountered when I first
started using Khan Academy
is I would be over here
on my teacher screen
and I would say, you know what,
I'm gonna do an assignment
I'm gonna assign basically an entire unit.
Well, the problem with that
is that I'm assigning 24 things at once.
That's video, is maybe
articles, some practice,
that's way too much.
I highly recommend being laser focused,
especially at the start of the year.
You're just getting
your students warmed up
and you say there's only one
thing I want you to focus on.
And most likely,
that's the thing that you
just talked about in class
during your last session.
So, if I had just taught about adding
and subtracting within 20,
I would choose only that singular skill
and I would assign only that
and that way we have baby
steps in the Khan Academy,
as opposed to that feeling
of being overwhelmed.
Great question, Diane.
Juliana saying, how do
you assign something
on Google Classroom?
So, the first thing is you
do have to assign it using
the techniques we've already
talked about on Khan Academy
if you wanna be able to
track it on Khan Academy
and get all those valuable reports.
So, that means either assigning it
through your teacher dashboard
or actually on the section itself,
you're using that little assign blue bar.
But, that being said, once
you have something going,
here's what you can do next.
Let me actually just get
this going for you here.
Hold on one moment.
So, we expand this.
You may get out of this modal mode.
You'll notice there's
this Google Classroom link
under every video and every practice
and by clicking that
link just like you would
a Facebook link or a Twitter link,
you're basically sending it
to your Google Classroom.
So, as long as you're logged into Google,
as long as your classroom is set up,
you can specifically send
that piece of content straight
into your classroom account.
And that's a nice supplement
to the assignments
that already exist in Khan Academy.
Hope that helps.
Let's keep tabs on our timer here.
We're down to about two minutes.
Great question, Juliet.
I see Tamara is doing well.
Lisa's doing well.
Let's see here.
Ooh, Usenia says,
how do we archive last year's class
in order to start a new class this year?
Great question.
So, if you have something
that you want to get rid of,
'cause it's cluttering up your dashboard,
you can always come down to
the settings and just say,
you know what?
I'm gonna delete this class.
And the data still exists.
The students aren't gonna lose their data,
but it will be removed from your dashboard
so you don't have all those
information overwhelming you
because overwhelm is real,
not just for students,
but also for educators.
So, definitely check that out, Usenia.
Let's see here.
Melissa said, how do you get
to that grade book again?
So, if you ever wanna get back
to that assignment grade book,
all you do is assignments
and then scores and voila.
You now have the results
for each of those sections.
So, identify nouns.
Let's see how students did.
Now, we're down to the final 30 seconds.
Rosemary is saying,
do students do work with
pen and paper at desk?
Or can they solve digitally?
Ooh, such a good question.
I'm glad you brought that up, Rosemary.
When you are doing work on Khan Academy,
you may have noticed
this, and I hope this is
one of the benefits of
actually doing these things,
is that you can actually start to draw
on the screen as a student.
So, whether you're using
your computer, or Chromebook,
or tablet, or phone, you
click this little button
and you can literally do some doodles
and some sort of quick
calculations right on your screen.
But, what I always
encourage students to do
is whatever is most effective for them.
If that means using pen and paper,
if that means using a little
sort of personal whiteboard
on their desk, by all means.
Great question.
All right.
So, we have come to the end of step five
and now it's the big moment of truth.
Don't fail me now, it is our final step.
Reviewing the progress together
and I'm super excited to show you,
not just course master
progress at a high level,
but specifically x-ray
view into the skills
that your students are generating.
So again, everyone in my class
has just completed their
first course mastery practice,
which is awesome.
When I come here,
I can look at that through
two different lenses.
First of all, I have this lens
of overall course progress,
and I can say, Melissa,
and Pamela, and Regina
are off to the races, they're doing great.
And I can literally track
that at the unit level
and at the overall course level as well.
Your goal is always a hundred
percent course mastery.
I want everyone in my class
to master all these skills.
However, just this summer,
we rolled out a brand
new report called skills
and here's where you find it.
So again, you're in
your teacher dashboard,
you're in your specific classroom
and you go to activity overview
and then you go to skills.
And what you will find
here are all the skills
in your entire course,
whether it's grammar,
whether it's math, whether it's science,
all laid out for you.
And then when you click on it,
you can actually see how everyone is doing
in terms of that spectrum
from first getting started,
getting familiar, to getting proficient,
and ultimately mastering that skill.
I think this is such a powerful thing
because when I was a teacher,
I almost did all of my
assessment at the unit level.
And I knew who was exceeding in general
and who was struggling in general,
but I didn't always know
the specific students
and the specific skills
that were holding them back.
And now you have that
all in a single report.
So, what you might say is, okay,
I'm feeling great about
Larry, and Ori, and Nathaniel,
but I'm a little worried
about Tammy and Kristen.
And what you can do is you
can actually assign the skill
just to the students who might
be struggling a little bit.
And that way they get that extra practice
before you move on as a class.
So again, put on those x-ray goggles,
get a sense of how your class is doing.
And this is a really powerful new report
that I hope you'll try out.
Now, I know we're almost at time
so I do wanna finish with
a quick recap for you.
If there are three things
that you wanna show
your students at the start of this year,
whether your school
year has already begun,
or whether it's about to begin next week,
is number one, when in
doubt with registration,
the simplest thing to do is
just share your class link.
You come into your class,
you come to students, and
you share that class code
and that'll get students up
and running pretty quickly.
Number two, you're gonna
train your students
that once they've gone
ahead and registered,
all the action is gonna
appear on their learner home.
So, they're gonna come up to their names,
they're gonna click learner home
and they're gonna see all
the classes they're a part of
and all their assignments
and all their course mastery
all in one place.
And then finally, as mentioned
here in the third point,
assignments, course mastery,
they'll be notified right
here on their learner home.
So, here are the notifications.
Here's what's coming in.
Here's what to do.
And that way,
even if everyone is learning
at home learning remotely,
you can centralize that,
the single source of truth,
about what you're handing
out all in one place.
That being said, a couple
of things I wanna call out
before I start taking
your questions live again.
I know that they're gonna
be more questions either now
or in the next few weeks,
so I want you to have all
the resources possible.
Number one, I wanna try
to take as many questions
as possible right now,
but if you don't get
your question answered,
or if something else comes
up over the long weekend,
or in the showers, or getting ready
for the first day of school,
here are two amazing resources.
Number one, you can always
ask our support team
using this link bit.ly/khanquestion.
Basically, what that is
doing is it's taking you
from the help link at the very top.
So, click your name, you click help,
and then you report a problem.
And even though that
sounds kinda negative,
it's basically a chance to say, hey,
I've got an idea for Khan Academy,
or I have a bug in Khan Academy,
or I have a question about Khan Academy.
And we typically respond
in a couple of hours,
even at the start of the school year.
So, definitely lean on our
community support team for help.
And then, in addition,
make sure to check out
with fellow teachers
what they're doing and learn
from their best practices.
And you can do that
on our Facebook group
called Teach with Khan.
And as you can see,
people are saying help,
I have a question and
teachers are coming in
and sharing their expertise
left, right, and central.
So, take advantage of that
tool as the school year dawns.
That being said, let me take
your questions live now.
So Stephanie, I'm gonna lead off of you.
You say, our students have
fake Google email addresses,
Khan Academy recognizes them,
but it's gonna work in
the same way to login.
Absolutely.
Even if you've totally made
up these Google accounts,
just for the purpose of
getting your students enrolled,
everything is the same.
They come in,
they log in with those fake credentials
that you created for them
and they're gonna see
that same learner home,
those same assignments, the
same course mastery goals,
regardless of how they log in.
So, definitely you're gonna
see very similar results.
Let's see here.
Melissa says, is the drawing
tool available for English?
Yeah, great questions.
Let's just try that out together.
We're gonna come back to Khan Academy.
We're gonna come back to
our student experience demo,
and we're gonna go back into
that sort of grade book,
if you will, identifying nouns.
And what I'm happy to say is that voila,
here is the virtual
whiteboard, even for grammar.
So, if you wanna do any sentence diagrams,
if you wanna break out
your digital red pen,
by all means, go ahead
and take a take advantage
of this tool because it is a nice way,
even if you don't have a
whiteboard built in like Zoom has,
and you're using a different platform,
you can absolutely
start drawing right here
and get your students off to the races.
Great question, Melissa.
Holly says, how can I unassign something?
Oh, I assigned too much not
knowing what I was doing
and I totally get it, Holly.
I was in that same boat
when I was playing around
with Khan Academy at first.
But, what you wanna do is
you wanna come back here
to the assignment section.
You wanna say manage this time.
So, that's the last of
these three options.
And then, you wanna come in
here and say, you know what,
I went a little bit overboard,
let me go ahead and edit this assignment.
In this case, maybe I'll
go ahead and delete it.
And in that case,
you don't have to have all
these students suffering
under all these assignments.
You can keep it way more simple.
Hope that helps.
Great question.
Let's see, Stephanie says,
I am an instructional
math coach with no kids
of my own to experiment on, thanks Jeremy.
Absolutely.
I have to tell you all,
in addition to being a former teacher,
I have two little kids at home
and they are my Khan Academy guinea pigs.
So, they are so sick of all this stuff,
but I have tried it out on them.
Definitely kid tested,
if not kid approved.
Rosemary says, can I assign
mastery in small chunks
with a short deadline?
For example, I wanna see how
a new fourth grader understands
third grade place value.
Yeah, so I actually have
a really cool new resource
for you, Rosemary.
Right now it's sort of
amid flaw of course mastery
which is that it operates
at this course level,
which can often feel too massive,
especially at the start of the year,
but brand new on Khan Academy
this year is the ability
to come in, click courses,
and then see these things
called get ready courses.
And what that is,
is our attempt to get
your students up to speed
for grade level given that so much
was up in the air this past spring.
And so, you're gonna
find very curated cuts
of just the most important
skills for third grade,
or for algebra, or for pre-calculus.
And so, you can assign course
mastery for these courses
and that can be done in a couple
of weeks, not in 26 weeks.
And hopefully that'll get you
moving a little bit faster.
Hope that helps, Rosemary.
Stephanie says, wahoo!
Wahoo indeed.
Diane says, excited to be joining.
Thank you for being here, Diane.
Thank you for being
such an awesome student.
Tamara says, can you please explain a bit
about 11 up or down?
Ooh, such a good question.
I'm taking a government class
and I went through a practice set today.
I scored maybe like three out of four
or four out of five or something.
It was the first time I had taken it
and then I was surprised
to see the red down arrow.
What's going on?
Well, it's so funny you
mention this, Tamara,
'cause Sal Khan was actually
on this radio show this
morning that I was listening to
and a parent called them
with the same exact question,
which is like, how
demoralizing is it for my kid
if all of a sudden I see
the scores going down?
Well, the reason that that happens
is that what Khan is trying to do
is trying to always
assess the mastery level
of your students.
And it wants to be pretty
clear-eyed about this.
Doesn't wanna say, hey, you know,
you mastered something in the past,
but when me gave you some space repetition
and we showed it to you again,
and this time you totally didn't get it.
Well, we can't really still
call you that master level.
And so when in doubt,
I highly recommend coming
back to your skills report.
So, here's activity overview,
here's skills and check this out,
for every single level we will give you
the definition of what
attempted, familiar,
proficient, and master means.
So if you're ever wondering,
why did I go from master to proficient,
or familiar to proficient?
We will give you that intel
and that definition right here.
So, hopefully that'll be the
Rosetta stone, if you will,
to explain some of those conundrums.
Great question, Tamara.
All right, let's see here.
Well, Diane says,
how is getting ready for
fourth grade different
than using LearnStorm?
I'm so glad you asked
because LearnStorm is more a
sort of key motivational thing
that runs across all the courses we offer.
So, you may notice at
the top of Khan Academy,
in this course directory, we kind of had
this massive spectrum
of content offerings.
Everything from math, to
STEM, to arts and humanity,
even career courses.
And so, what we say is
no matter what you teach,
we wanna make sure that you get credit
for getting your students going
and your students get motivation,
especially in this tough moment.
And so, anytime you make an assignment
and your students make progress,
you will start to see that
LearnStorm tracker grow.
And that's true for get ready courses.
It's true for AP art history.
It's true for everything.
That said, these get ready courses
were built specifically this year,
given the fact that so many teachers said,
I'm a little bit worried about the fall.
My own class in the spring didn't end
the way it would normally,
we didn't cover all the content
we would normally get to.
So, I can expect that some of
my students coming in may be
a little bit less prepared
or a little bit less unready,
and they would have been in a normal year.
And so, this is specifically
about plugging those holes,
catching them up on those key
skills so that in the middle
of the year, you don't run
into those Swiss cheese gaps
that might be holding your student back.
And again, if you assign
some of this work,
it will also count towards LearnStorm,
but it is a little more focused
on content then motivation.
'Cause LearnStorm is about
motivation at the end of the day.
Great question, Diane.
Okay, o let me sort of come back here
and give you a quick recap.
I love that you all totally
rocked my class today.
It makes me feel really good as a teacher
to see that so many folks
were getting proficient
and mastery on all those key skills.
What's more important
to me quite honestly,
is that you all are ready
to rock your own classrooms this fall.
If there's anything we can do
to support you along the way,
please let us know, ask
questions to our support team,
connect with us online, or
even let me know in the survey
after the session what you wanna see next.
I have a team of a bunch of
ambassadors around the country
who are just chomping at the
bit to share their expertise
with you in response to your needs.
So, if you let me know
that you need a webinar
about motivation, or you need
a tool focused on XYZ content,
we will get to work on that.
In the meantime, I wish you all an amazing
and well-deserved long
weekend this weekend
and then a great start or
resumption of the year next week.
I know there's a lot
resting on your shoulders,
but I also know you're gonna
knock it out of the park.
Thank you so much for all that you do
and here's wishing you tremendous success.
Cheers everyone.
