Back-to-school season brings new students, new routines, and plenty of planning. Whether you’re setting up your first Khan Academy class or returning for another year, we’re here to help you start strong.
For the 2026–27 school year, Khan Academy has new tools, professional learning, and free classroom resources designed to make planning, assigning, and supporting student learning easier.
2026 Khan Academy teacher updates at a glance
- A reimagined classroom experience that makes it easier to find content, manage classes, and assign practice
- A refreshed Khan for Educators professional learning course
- New and updated free courses across math, ELA, science, social studies, test prep, and life skills
- New state-aligned resources for Texas and Florida
Let’s take a closer look at what’s new.
Khan Academy, reimagined: built for today’s classrooms
If you know Khan Academy, you know us for free, trusted content that helps students practice at their own pace. That foundation is still here, but the experience around it has changed in a big way.
The new Khan Academy experience was built after listening closely to teachers and students. It brings the parts of teaching with Khan Academy into a more focused and connected classroom experience.
Why it’s worth your time:
- Built around the classroom: A more streamlined teacher experience helps you find content, manage classes, and assign learning more easily.
- Clearer next steps for students: Students get a more focused path through their work, helping reduce the “What am I supposed to do now?” feeling.
- Progress that is easier to act on: Updated reports help you see learning time, progress, skill mastery, and assignment completion more quickly.
- Still Khan Academy: Your account, classes, data, and trusted content library stay with you. And, yes, it’s still free.
New or returning to Khan Academy? Start here.
The new experience is designed to be easier to use, but you don’t have to figure it out alone. Khan for Educators is a free course that walks you through the essentials so you can start the year with confidence.
You’ll learn how to set up your classes, assign work, check reports, and build Khan Academy into your classroom routines.
Take the Khan for Educators courseNew and updated content for back-to-school season
We’ve added and refreshed free content across subjects to help you plan, assign, and support student learning all year long.
Math
- Illustrative Mathematics-aligned math: updated courses for 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, Algebra 1, and Integrated Math 1, with visual models, real-world problems, step-by-step hints, and practice that fits more easily into IM routines
- AP Precalculus: a new course with exam-style practice, deeper support for functions, and built-in Algebra 2 review to help students build confidence in one of the newest AP math courses
- AP Calculus AB: a revised course with new videos, exercises, and free-response practice, including sample questions, scoring guidance, and tips for writing stronger responses
ELA and grammar
- Grade-level grammar: new grammar courses for 5th and 6th, 7th and 8th, and 9th and 10th grade, with targeted practice, engaging videos, instructional articles, and support for key language skills like sentence structure, commonly confused words, style, and tone
Science
- AP Physics C: Mechanics: a new calculus-based AP course with instructional videos, interactive articles, and rigorous practice aligned to the AP exam
- Middle school biology unit guides: new teacher guides with lesson overviews, essential questions, standards alignment, teaching tips, common misconceptions, and real-world phenomena
- Hands-on biology activities: new middle school and 5th-grade activities that help students investigate real-world science through modeling, data analysis, experiments, and teacher-supported guides
- Science simulations: new simulation-based articles and exercises for middle school biology help students explore hard-to-see concepts like natural selection, heat capacity, climate change, and conservation of energy
Social studies
- U.S. History: a revised course with shorter lessons, rewritten high school-level articles, new practice questions, unit overviews, and Writing Coach essay assignments to support historical thinking and evidence-based writing
- World History: a new course with OER Project that combines videos, articles, mastery practice, teacher resources, and Writing Coach assignments across 250,000 years of history
Test prep
- SAT Reading and Writing: new Challenge units that help students prepare for some of the toughest questions on the SAT Reading and Writing section
Life skills
- Career Exploration: a new course with short, structured videos from real professionals to help students compare career paths, connect classroom skills to real jobs, and imagine next steps
- Financial Literacy: an updated course with practical lessons on credit reports, credit card statements, checks, healthcare terms, insurance, car warranties, and financial decision making
State-specific resources
- Texas TEKS resources: New TEKS-aligned support across 6th Grade Science, 7th Grade Science, Integrated Physics and Chemistry, Financial Mathematics, and Personal Financial Literacy, with student resources and teacher supports built for Texas classrooms
- Florida Personal Finance and Money Management: a new course with ready-to-use support for Florida’s financial literacy graduation requirement
- Florida B.E.S.T. Geometry: a new course that helps students build geometric reasoning through modeling, constructions, proofs, right triangles, trigonometry, and real-world applications
Make this your best school year yet
Wherever you are in your back-to-school planning, Khan Academy offers free tools, content, and professional learning to help you start strong. Set up your class and explore what’s new for the year ahead.
Get started for freeKhan Academy Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Khan Academy’s courses, instructional videos, articles, practice exercises, teacher tools, and professional learning resources are free for teachers.
Khan Academy Reimagined is an updated experience designed to make it easier for teachers to find content, manage classes, assign learning, and understand student progress. Students also get a clearer, more focused path through their assigned work.
Yes. Your Khan Academy account, existing classes, student data, and access to the content library remain available in the updated experience.
Teachers can use Khan Academy for whole-class instruction, independent practice, review, differentiation, test preparation, writing support, or supplemental learning. You can choose individual lessons and skills or assign content from a complete course.
Khan Academy offers free resources across math, grammar, science, social studies, test preparation, financial literacy, career exploration, and more.
The free Khan for Educators course walks you through setting up classes, finding and assigning content, checking reports, and building Khan Academy into your classroom routines.
