Khan Academy Blogs
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By Craig Silverstein Khan Academy started as a collection of videos, but now has over 100,000 pieces of written content, from exercises to articles to programming challenges. All of these are now …
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By William Chargin This article has a bit of exposition. The fun stuff starts in “Matrix magic.” Video thumbnails are a great way to grab users’ attention. YouTube even provides guides for content …
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By Sam Lau The Result I’ll skip to the happy ending. This little feature implements more sophisticated copy-pasting for the interactive widgets we use for our exercises and articles, making life …
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By Phillip Lemons The problem Recently, a number of students on Khan Academy found a way to cheat by taking hints offline and not having them counted towards their online profile. When going through …
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By Marcos Ojeda A while ago, we needed to send out a notification to all our LearnStorm winners inviting them to the Finals event in Mountain View. It’s a big deal! Only 200 Students from all of …
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By Riley Shaw I recently joined the developer team at Khan Academy. Since arriving I’ve been surprised by a number of intentional decisions the organization has made to empower its developers. Whether …
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