In this second of three blog posts for our Khan Academy District Partners, the team will be sharing new feature updates released in time for the fall. In this second post you’ll learn about improved reporting for administrators, rostering updates, and an overview of new offerings including some truly ground-breaking AI tools for the ELA classroom.
Improved Reporting
This fall’s refresh for admin is focused on reporting: no more hunting for the information you need. A refreshed administrator dashboard allows leaders to be laser focused on the metrics that indicate students are learning.
Best of all, you’ll always know where students currently are down to each individual classroom.
And, with Khanmigo reporting, administrators know which, and how many of your eligible students and teachers with Khanmigo are using AI.
Even Better Rostering
As you know, Khan Academy accounts who are part of a partner district and are enrolled in the Khan Academy Districts program have access to automated rostering via Clever and Classlink. To make it as easy as possible for our Partners to add administrators, we’re happy to share that moving forward, any administrator can be rostered to the Partnership without needing to add them to Clever or Class Link. Of course, you can always learn more about rostering as a Khan Academy Districts Partner on our Help Center.
New Offerings
Learning Paths informed by MAP Growth
Learning Paths is a newly-available feature of a Khan Academy Districts Partnership that accelerates student outcomes in 3rd-grade math through Geometry by providing a personalized learning path for each student based on their MAP Growth scores. Khan Academy Districts with the Learning Paths add-on utilizes MAP Growth data for students, bringing the best of personalized learning from NWEA and Khan Academy under one umbrella on the Khan Academy platform.
What do schools and districts get?
- A Khan Academy Districts Partnership with personalized Learning Paths for each student, as well as standards-aligned instructional content and practice problems
- The ability to adjust student goals and learning pathways to best meet students’ individual needs
- Insightful reports that offer easy-to-read data to guide instruction
- Automatic integration with Clever class rosters and MAP Growth scores
- Implementation support and professional learning for teachers
- Priority technical support
For Partners with Learning Paths, please visit this section of our Help Center that’s built to answer your questions. If you’re interested in bringing Learning Paths to your district, please let your District Success Manager know!
Khanmigo Updates
Over the last year, the Khan Academy team released ground-breaking AI products to administrators, teachers and learners. Here are just the top 5 fan favorites:
- A best in class lesson plan creation tool that allows a teacher to create robust lesson plans from scratch or based on Khan Academy content.
In this screenshot, you can see features we added to the lesson planning tool based on feedback we received from Khan Academy District Partners like you. These include “print and export”, the addition of a toolbar that makes it possible to directly request Khanmigo makes a change, smart highlights that show where Khanmigo’s attention is currently directed, and a full screen editor experience.
- Continued improvements to Khanmigo recommendations, including the ability for teachers to make assignments directly from a Khanmigo chat.
- Release of over a dozen new tools created to help teachers
- Writing Coach guides students through the entire writing process from start to finish. Students get support with understanding the assignment, outlining, drafting, and getting feedback and revision. Read more!
- Text-to-Speech makes learning more accessible and engaging, for more learners, now in English, Spanish and Portuegese. Learn more on our blog!
New Professional Learning on AI
A District Partnership is the only way to give students access to 1:1 Khanmigo AI tutoring, and it unlocks professional learning and admin support on AI for teachers. We learned in our pilot year of Khanmigo that professional learning and implementation modeling is critical to successful AI rollouts. You can see our 2024-2025 Professional Learning Menu here and get excited about directing innovation.
And, whether your teachers are getting live professional learning through Khan Academy or not, we invite your staff to embark on a comprehensive journey to master the use of artificial intelligence in educational settings with Khanmigo. Our new, free, asynchronous professional learning course covers the essentials of AI, ethical considerations, and practical applications.
Writing Coach for Teachers and Students
Unlike other AI writing tools, Writing Coach isn’t an evaluative tool or a productivity tool whose purpose is to produce better writing. It’s an AI-enabled instructional tool whose purpose is to produce better writers. You can read about it in more detail our blog.
We believe Khanmigo Writing Coach will serve as an invaluable tool for teachers, enabling them to focus their attention on offering personalized guidance that helps students develop into more confident and skilled writers. The National Commission on Writing recommends that students should be writing for about 60 minutes each day. Given the strain that writing instruction puts on teachers, it’s no wonder that fewer than 10% of students meet this expectation. Beyond the immediate support for students which we covered earlier on this blog post, Writing Coach for teachers will soon offer:
- Time savings: Khanmigo can save hundreds of hours by supporting students throughout the entire writing process, including during the feedback phase and revisions. It also surfaces valuable insights that will allow teachers to avoid having to painstakingly review more than 100 individual student draft histories.
- Detailed reporting: The tool provides summaries of class- and student-level feedback, detailed reports on the amount of time spent at each stage of writing, and chat exchanges with Khanmigo. Teachers can also review any feedback provided by Khanmigo throughout the writing process.
- Academic integrity monitoring: The tool alerts teachers to potential instances of plagiarism. For instance, if a student pastes text from outside their outline into their draft, the teacher is alerted and can review the history of what happened.
That’s all for now- in case you missed it, be sure to read our first blog post of this back-to-school series about new content released for the fall, and stay tuned for our final post on new resources developed to guide you through your Khan Academy District Partnership this school year.
