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  • - Hi everyone, this is Jeremy Schifeling at Khan Academy.

  • I'm joined by our amazing leader of

  • professional learning, Meaghan Pattani.

  • Meaghan has a real treat in store for you today,

  • because she's gonna walk you through,

  • not the educator experience that

  • you're used to on the site, but the student experience.

  • So, you can see exactly what your students are seeing,

  • and deliver them an awesome experience with all

  • the remote learning challenges we all have at this moment.

  • So that being said,

  • Meaghan is gonna start to share with you what it looks like

  • through the lens of a student using Khan Academy,

  • and then in true webinar fashion,

  • if you have any questions whatsoever,

  • you can ask those at any time using the questions feature,

  • and we'll take those both throughout,

  • and then also at the end.

  • So that being said,

  • thank you so much for joining us today,

  • and I'll turn it over to Meaghan.

  • - Thanks so much, Jeremy.

  • So, we're gonna jump right in, and just a quick note of

  • what we will and will not cover today.

  • We're gonna cover the student experience,

  • and I know a lot of teachers and

  • parents have a lot of questions about this.

  • We're gonna walk through the student experience on

  • Khan Academy to help you as parents,

  • or teachers, better understand what

  • your students and or children are learning.

  • But, we will not cover today

  • the teacher and parent experiences.

  • We have some of the resources

  • about parent teacher experience,

  • and if you'd like to take a look at those,

  • definitely reach out to our keep learning site,

  • keeplearning@khanacademy.org,

  • and there you'll have more information

  • about parent and teacher experiences.

  • That being said, I'm gonna jump right into our live product.

  • Here's how we're gonna start.

  • Once students login to Khan Academy,

  • so if they have an existing account,

  • either a personal account,

  • or one they have through their school or district,

  • they log in here.

  • If they need to create an account,

  • they can do that pretty easily.

  • They can use that same Google login

  • they might have for school.

  • Or, if they are under 13,

  • you as a parent can help walk them through that process.

  • Once they're logged in, they're gonna land here.

  • This is what we call our learner home,

  • and you might be asking yourself, well who is a learner?

  • We at Khan Academy view everyone as a learner,

  • and especially our students.

  • This is where they're gonna find everything else

  • they need to access on Khan Academy.

  • One trick we always like to share with our students and

  • teachers is that anywhere you are on the Khan Academy site,

  • by clicking that Khan Academy logo at the top,

  • they'll return right back to this learner home.

  • On this page, you'll see a whole bunch of things.

  • We're gonna start at the top,

  • and then we'll work through the rest.

  • On the left hand side here, you'll see this little avatar,

  • which students can update, and you'll see their name,

  • and their user name, and an option here to add their bio.

  • By clicking on this, students can edit this information.

  • Just one thing, I always like to call out

  • to parents and to teachers, is this basic information.

  • The user name, the avatar, and the bio information

  • that students share is publicly available.

  • So, just to be a little bit cautious

  • about what they've put there.

  • When they land on the learner home,

  • they'll see if their teacher has assigned them

  • course mastery or assignments.

  • They'll see those broken down

  • by class on the left hand side,

  • and so you can see on my student account here,

  • that on my period one Algebra one class,

  • I have a course mastery goal that you see here,

  • and then I also have assignments from my teacher.

  • So, anything they'd need from an individual class

  • will be there on the left hand side.

  • If they have courses that they'd like to study on their own,

  • under this next category of information

  • where it says my stuff, students will see courses.

  • These are courses that the student

  • has selected themselves to study.

  • When students sign up for an account,

  • they'll have the opportunity to pick

  • which courses they'd like to study on their own.

  • We recommend things that they might be studying in school,

  • or things that just interest them.

  • They can always edit those courses

  • by clicking the blue button at the top.

  • Below this, I also wanna call out this SAT button.

  • For students that might be in the high school age,

  • they have the opportunity to link their

  • college board account with their Khan Academy account.

  • They can import existing PSAT or SAT scores,

  • and get personalized recommendations across math,

  • reading and writing, and essays.

  • If students want to do that,

  • or if they haven't taken it yet, we also offer diagnostics.

  • If they add SAT, again when they set up their account,

  • they have a button that offers them to add SAT as a course.

  • They'll be added this SAT tab,

  • and they can practice recommended exercises

  • fit to their personalized results.

  • If you scroll down a little bit further,

  • in the my account area, one other thing

  • I'd like to point out here, is this button for teachers.

  • If students click on teachers,

  • this is where they're able to see

  • any teachers they're currently connected to.

  • They can remove those teachers,

  • and if they need to join a class,

  • one of the easiest way for students

  • to join a class is to enter the class code.

  • So, this is where your students would go if

  • they need to input a class code to join your class.

  • They would enter the class code in the space here,

  • and click join the class.

  • Once they do that, your name will appear in

  • the right hand side as a teacher.

  • So, if you're ever concerned that the student

  • is not connected to your class properly,

  • have them go to this tab, and have them check

  • to make sure that you are in fact connected as a teacher.

  • One last thing on this student learner home,

  • is this profile.

  • This shows students what they've done on Khan Academy.

  • It shows things like how many days

  • have they completed work on Khan Academy.

  • If they've worked on any computer

  • programming projects, they find them here.

  • How many energy points have they earned,

  • and how many badges have they earned.

  • So, all of these kind of gamification pieces

  • and tracking pieces can be found here.

  • I'm gonna go back to this course mastery on my learner home.

  • This here is a course mastery goal

  • that's given by my teacher.

  • If you've assigned a course mastery goal to your students,

  • this is what they see when they log in.

  • They'll see in this case, that we've assigned an

  • Algebra one goal to this student.

  • It shows the course name, when the goal is due,

  • and how much progress they've made on the overall course.

  • By clicking on this,

  • it takes me directly to the course page,

  • so I've now gone from the learner home

  • to the Algebra one course.

  • Now, some students will navigate to courses all on their own

  • by clicking this courses button in the top left.

  • This shows you all the courses

  • that are available across Khan Academy.

  • However, if you've assigned a course mastery goal,

  • we do recommend that students log in,

  • land on their learner home,

  • and then click on that bar to take them directly

  • to the course of study recommended for them.

  • From this page, you'll be able to see all the units,

  • lessons,

  • and even a course challenge that assesses skills

  • across the entire course for this particular course.

  • On the left hand side, you'll see student progress.

  • So, this is a overall progress in the course,