Assigning Course Challenge

Ms. Paaske - The course challenge, unfortunately, can not be assigned. However, I do agree that this should be an option.

According to the How do I create assignments? post, the course challenge can not be assigned :(

Have a great day and let me know if you have any questions!

-SP

Yes, I would like to do this as well.  I do not understand why assigning the Course Challenge wouldn't be an option.  Would really like to see this added.

I echo the request to include the Course Challenge among assignable skills. As an alternative, I've been assigning unit tests one-by-one to illuminate gap areas, but this is a lot of work for the student and is many more mouse clicks.

Being able to see the results as a teacher can help in SOOO many ways like:

• Review days to strengthen skills
• Pre-course assessment (give the "Get ready for Algebra 1" course challenge for students coming into Algebra 1 to know what skills to review/scaffold for)
• Final exams at the end of the year

Please let teachers see how students do on their Course Challenge!

I agree! I would love a diagnostic assessment where we can see the data!!! I have heard of a work around where teachers tell students to take the Course Challenge at a grade level to see what they know, but we cannot access the score/feedback so that is challenging. Khan Academy, please come up with a solution for us! We would all appreciate it! 

Please allow teachers to assign and see the results of the Course Challenge. This is a great diagnostic test and would allow us to support kids in their learning.

Hey All, assigning course challenges would be hugely helpful. As I have over 90 students who are in high school and working through Arithmetic, Pre-Algebra, and Algebra Foundations course challenges at the same time. My ability to track their attempts would be hugely beneficial.

I’m also confused as to the reason: is this not a better practice pedagogically, or is it actually a software limitation? This answer would appease me and other teachers I onboard. At the moment it just seems like an oversight.

I would like to be able to assign the course challenges as well. Thanks.

I suggest that all of you who are interested in getting this capability choose Report a Problem, which appears at the top of each Support Community page to the right of the center. While this is not a "problem" (as in "bug") per se, there is also the capbility to request a feature.

Something to keep in mind about Course Challenges: These are tests with as many as 40 questions. Any incorrect answer causes a student to lose mastery on that skill. There is no starting over to attempt a perfect score. The student needs to go all the way to the end before getting a chance to redo the Course Challenge to try to get mastery back plus a perfect score. And on the second and subsequent times through, there is always the danger of getting a different skill's question/problem wrong and lose mastery on that skill. I have never tried a Course Challenge precisely for this reason (I am an adult learner and don't need this for an assigned course), but I have read comments here in the Support Community from people who have tried it, and it is quite frustrating to get a wrong answer, especially near the beginning of the test, and then have to finish it before getting the chance to begin it again. These comments also appear here in connection with practice exercises, unit quizzes, and, especially, unit tests. There have been suggestions made here in the Support Community, with much support by other users, to allow restarting a problem set (whether practice exercise, Unit Quiz, Unit Test, or Course Challenge), but they have been turned down by Khan Academy.

Regina, as an eighteen-year educator, the idea of restarting an exercise, quiz, unit test, or course challenge would absolutely ruin Khan Academy. Making early mistakes is hard only if you think that one instance of taking an assessment brings a value judgment. I do not deny that getting a mistake early on is wrong, but trends, not individual instances are key. Looking at unit mastery points as a whole in tandem with an individual lesson gives a full picture of the learning. Our need for perfection over mastery is leaving many of my students fearful to try, so I hope the hardline continues. -- There used to be another feature years ago, where you had to get five questions in a row complete before you moved on. It would be neat if after you got an early one wrong you could complete an additional random question at the end or a couple of questions. That could be neat, but if I understand, the software behind it sounds like it should not be a priority.