What is Khanmigo?
Khanmigo, your new AI teaching assistant, is now integrated into our Canvas LMS and is exclusively available to faculty. This generative AI tool is designed to help educators streamline their workload. Powered by Khan Academy’s educational content, Khanmigo serves as a personal assistant for tasks like lesson planning, student engagement, and assessment. For example, it can generate lesson ideas, suggest warm-up activities, co-create rubrics, and develop exit ticket questions tailored to your course.
For a more in-depth look, view the "Khanmigo for Teachers" video below, which showcases some of the tools available to you and demonstrates how to use them.
Enabling the Khanmigo Tools in your Canvas Course
Please follow the instructions below to start experimenting with all your Khanmigo tools.
Enabling the Khanmigo Tools in Canvas.pdf
Transforming Classrooms with Khan Academy's Khanmigo Tools
Please read the article below to discover how Khanmigo can transform lesson planning with personalized hooks, interactive activities, and creative assessments that make learning both engaging and fun.
10 Creative Ways to Leverage Lesson Planning with AI
Additional Resources
Discover how instructors are using Khan Academy to transform their classrooms through differentiated instruction. Explore insightful interviews, learn about new tools and features you can implement for free, and get inspired to support every student's success with personalized learning.
Educators: Discover tools and strategies for differentiated instruction
Khanmigo for Educators Course
Explore the course below for a more in-depth walk-through of Khanmigo from Khan Academy. Note: You must create an account to access the course.
Unit 1: Welcome to Khanmigo, your new AI teaching assistant
Khanmigo FAQ
(All questions and responses, except the last, come from official Khanmigo communication)
"Khanmigo is an AI-powered teaching assistant from trusted education nonprofit Khan Academy. It is designed by teachers to speed up such teaching-related work as differentiation, lesson plans, quiz questions, student groupings, hooks, exit tickets, rubrics, and more. Khanmigo can help get you past writer's block and deliver rapid first drafts. And there’s no learning curve - start using Khanmigo’s teacher tools within minutes. Sign up for free to see why Fast Company says Khanmigo is an AI assistant that teachers will actually use."
"No - at this time, classroom access for Khanmigo is only available through school or district implementations. We invite district and school administrators to contact our Districts Partnership team to learn about Khanmigo for Districts.
Khanmigo for teachers offers a lot of exciting features, such as standards-aligned lesson planning tied to Khan Academy’s world-class content library; an on-demand summary of recent student work so you can quickly assess progress and identify areas where additional support is needed; and Khanmigo-crafted learning objectives, rubrics, and even exit tickets.
As a nonprofit educational organization, we see it as our responsibility to explore what AI could mean for the future of education. We believe that AI has the potential to transform learning in a positive way, but we are also keenly aware of the risks. Therefore, we are only offering access to learners who are under 18 years old when their parents give them access or when their school district is partnered with Khan Academy. This collaboration across school leaders, teachers, families, and Khan Academy staff makes it possible to provide the level of supervision and support children deserve. We believe these guidelines will help us responsibly adapt AI for an educational setting."
"Khan Academy is a small nonprofit funded by donations. Thanks to our partnership with Microsoft, we are able to provide free access to Khanmigo for Teachers in English to educators around the world.
To access Khanmigo for Teachers, you must be an educator who is 18 years or older and lives in one of these countries or territories.
We are working to continue to make this technology more affordable for everyone. Parents and learners need to make a monthly or annual payment to access Khanmigo, and that payment helps us support Khan Academy’s mission while giving access to a groundbreaking AI learning experience. The Khan Academy content library and learning platform will always remain 100% free."
To learn more about adding Khanmigo to your course or to explore ways to incorporate it into your class, please contact instructional designers Mandy Taylor at ajtaylor@csusb.edu or Elizabeth Viramontes-Shisler at eviramon@csusb.edu. We’re here to support you.
Works Cited:
Khan Academy. (n.d.). Educators: Discover tools and strategies for differentiated instruction. Khan Academy Blog. https://blog.khanacademy.org/educators/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=101624-Teacher%20BTS-EM8%20Wham%20Signed%20Up&utm_content=Final&utm_term=2024-WHAM-Teachers-AO-080124
Khan Academy. (n.d.). Khanmigo AI for Teachers: Frequently asked questions. Retrieved October 7, 2024, from https://www.khanmigo.ai/teachers