Summary:

As a teacher/parent, I'd like a setting to toggle whether or not a question's instructions are automatically replayed in Khan Academy Kids lessons so that there is less distraction while students evaluate the question/answers.

Platform/Version:

Khan Academy Kids iPad application, Version7.0.1 (I believe this relates to Khan Academy Kids overall but if it's better suited for the "mobile" support area please feel free to move this request to that area)

Details:

Currently at the end of a lesson, a question is presented and the instructions for answering the question are played, then the instructions are repeated after a few seconds. I understand this is helpful if students need to hear the instructions again, however the repeat of instructions is not always needed. It can be a source of significant distraction if the student understands the instructions the first time and is attempting to evaluate which answer is correct while the instructions are being repeated. This is worsened for particularly long instructions. Anecdotally, experiencing this distraction in lesson after lesson leads students to become frustrated and leads to decreased engagement with the lessons. This becomes a bigger issue for students who already struggle with attention.

Currently, students can manually trigger a repeat of the instructions if needed by tapping the character on the screen. With manually triggered instruction repeats available, I'd like a setting to toggle the auto repeat of question instructions(on by default, off if toggled by teacher/parent).

Current functionality:

Lesson plays, Question is presented, Instructions are played, Instructions are repeated, (student can tap character to repeat instructions)

Desired functionality:

(with instruction auto repeat on - default) same as current functionality

(with instruction auto repeat turned off) Lesson plays, Question is presented, Instructions are played, (no auto repeat of instructions), (student can tap character to repeat instructions)

Platform/Version:

Khan Academy Kids iPad application, Version7.0.1

Thanks for your time and for considering this feature for inclusion in your wonderful application. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like me to be a tester for this feature. :)

Jason

(edits: spelling and note about platform/version)