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What types of content can I assign to my students?

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Khan Academy offers a wide range of educational content for your students. The content is organized into courses, which are based on specific subjects and include a variety of material.

Courses then are organized in the below structure: 

  1. Courses consist of units and the Course Challenge
  2. Units are comprised of lessons and quizzes
  3. Lessons are comprised of a mix of articles, videos and practice exercises  

Teachers have 2 categories of tasks they can have their students work on: 

  1. Mastery Goals: 
    • Course Mastery Goals and Unit Mastery Goals are longer-term options for teachers who would like their students to work towards mastering all skills in a course or a particular unit in that course. 
    • Teachers can monitor their students’ understanding and Mastery level as they complete the exercises, quizzes, course challenge, and Mastery challenge in the Khan Academy course. 
    • Related resource: How do I create Course or Unit Mastery Goals for my students? 
  2. Assignments: 
    • These are one-off tasks designed for students to complete a specific piece of Khan Academy content in a course.
    • Teachers can choose to assign any of the following types of content from a Khan Academy course: article, video, exercise, quiz, unit test, or course challenge. 
      • Course challenges are 30 questions long and cover all the skills from across the entire course, so can be helpful to gauge students’ level of understanding at a broader level
      • Unit tests are a minimum of 9 questions long and cover all the skills in a unit, so can be helpful if students are working towards a Unit mastery goal
      • Quizzes are a minimum of 5 questions long and cover the skills in a particular lesson 
      • Practice exercises are 4-7 questions long and cover a select group of skills in a lesson 
    • Related resource: How do I create assignments?

Some teachers like to give their students a Mastery goal for them to work on throughout a longer time frame, like a school year or semester, and specific assignments for the skills they may need to focus more on. 

We encourage you to find a classroom routine that works best for your students’ learning goals and your teaching practice. 

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