How can administrators recommend and assign Unit Mastery Goals to teachers?

Khan Academy Districts administrators can recommend and assign Unit Mastery Goals (UMGs) to teachers in their district. Unit Mastery Goals are targets set for students to achieve Mastery in specific units of a Khan Academy course. Having an administrator assign these helps save teachers time and guide classroom instruction by setting clear, trackable targets. 

Who can assign Unit Mastery Goals?

Only administrators with certain high-level permissions have access to assign Unit Mastery Goals on behalf of teachers. We call these users “Super Administrators.”

You’ll know who is a Super Administrator by: 

• Visiting the “Manage Administrators” section of your Administrator Dashboard.  

• Those who have “District” under the “Admin Role” column and “Manage” under the “Permission” column have access to this feature. 

Please contact your Khan Academy District Success Manager or another Super Admin if you need, but do not have, the permissions needed for this feature. 

How do the Unit Mastery Goals administrators assign show up to teachers?

There are 2 ways the Unit Mastery Goal assignments from administrators can appear to teachers:

1. If the teacher does not have Unit Mastery Goals already assigned to their students:

• The admin’s assignments will be automatically assigned once the nightly roster sync occurs.
• The teacher will see the below popup on their class that reads "Classroom assignments are ready!" 
• The teacher can then click the "Review assignments" button on the popup to learn more about what the administrator assigned. They also can always go back in and edit or adjust the assignments on their teacher dashboard as well. 

2. If a teacher already has similar or identical unit mastery goals for their classes: 

• After the nightly roster sync, an administrator’s Unit Mastery Goal assignments will appear on the teacher's dashboard as recommendations.
• Teachers will see blue banners on their class' "Activity Overview" page telling them they have Mastery recommendations. 
• Then the teacher will click "View recommendations" and accept, or dismiss the administrator’s recommendations. 

How to assign Unit Mastery Goals as an administrator

Follow the below 8 steps to assign Unit Mastery Goals to teachers in your district:

1. Visit the “Settings” section of your Administrator Dashboard
2. Click the blue “Manage Courses” button 

           

3. Select which subject areas and Clever roster subjects you would like to assign the Unit Mastery Goals on. 
   
   
4. Click “Review courses”

           

5. Create Clever course groupings based on those working on similar subject matter.
   You’ll do this by: 
   • Clicking “add course group”

           

• • Select which Clever courses you would like to be in a group. 
    • For math courses, the Clever section must have the subject labeled as math.
    • For Digital SAT, sections don’t require subject tags, but only high school grade levels will appear on this feature. 

         

• • Clicking “Save changes”
       

6. Add the applicable Khan Academy course(s) to this group of Clever course(s).
We will suggest some courses for you, but feel free to adjust them and select what is most applicable. 

7. Click “Edit units” to customize the selected unit mastery goals in the course and their due dates 

       

       

8. Final step! Click “Publish Changes” at the bottom of the page and complete the confirmation modal

     

We hope this article was helpful in understanding how administrators can assign Unit Mastery Goals to their teachers’ classrooms! If you have any questions or need additional information, please feel free to contact your District Success Manager, or reach out to the Khan Academy Support Team through this link.