Allow students to transfer progress from "student" accounts to personal accounts

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Adam Miller

4. april 2020 02:34

There needs to be a method for kids to retain there work when forced to have several accounts by teachers. My children have been using Khan Academy for over 7 years. I have the 2013 patron badge. I have found that my children are very discouraged from working on khan academy for school, since they have millions of points on their personal accounts, and the wrok performed on their student accounts made by teachers do not count toward. I fhtey want to maintain their personal accounts they are forced to perform all work, and watch all videos twice.
I can imagine a few ways that this could be solved, merging accounts is only one of them. I have tried to think of every reason why teachers would not allow personal accounts to be used, and hope some of these suggestions are more achievable at reaching everyone's goal of providing a world class education to everyone.
1. Student accounts created by teachers could allow students to link their personal accounts to so progress is counted for both accounts.
2. Allowing a student to transfer progress in a single direction from "student" accounts to personal accounts.
3. Encouraging teachers to allow their students to use their personal accounts.
4. Allowing teachers who allow students that use personal accounts to only count progress after a certain date
5. Taking the teachers out of the loop of linking or inviting accounts, by allowing the students to perform the action of replacing the student account with there personal account, and placing an "Alias" in the teachers dashboard

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Evan Lewis

5. april 2020 00:57
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Hi Adam,

Thanks for the feedback! I've forwarded this request to the team for consideration as we continue to improve our platform.

For the time being, one of the easiest existing solutions is to simply allow students to use their personal accounts in the teacher's class. They can do so by joining with the class code, instead of having the teacher create a new account for them.

If students join the class with an existing account, any mastery progress that they have made in a course will be retained. For example, if a student has reached 50% mastery in Algebra I, and the teacher assigns the Algebra I Mastery Goal, the student will start out at 50%.

However, if the teacher assigns a specific piece of content (video, practice exercise, quiz, or tests) that the student has already completed, the student will need to redo the assigned content in order for the assignment to be marked as completed. By doing this, teachers can still assign work and track progress, but students can keep their earned badges and mastery progress.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any additional questions!
Michelle McMeel

15. september 2020 23:25
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Evan, I have the opposite problem. My children used a school account for years and have now switched to a personal child account. They are very discouraged tI have to start again at zero. Is there a way that their progress can be transferred from their student account to a new personal child account?
Evan Lewis

16. september 2020 14:46
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Hi Michelle,

Unfortunately there is not a way to transfer progress from one account to another. Is there a particular reason why they are wanting to switch over to a new account? Even if they're not in school anymore, they should be able to continue using their school account. There's not a way for teachers to delete accounts, so their account and mastery progress will be preserved even if their teacher removes them from old classes.
carol

19. april 2022 17:19
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