Khan Exercises

The Khan Exercises refers to exercises that were imported from the Khan Academy, a popular non-profit that puts out educational YouTube videos.

You will be able to assign these 400+ exercises to your student during your tutoring session and see, in realtime, how they're doing by seeing what kinds of wrong answers they're inputting and how long it's taking them to respond. We also have an algorithm that will tell you whether we think a student has mastered the concept you're covering.

INTRODUCTION

Once in your tutoring session and you're ready to assign some problems, the Khan exercises can be activated by clicking the PRACTICE at the top left corner. The link looks like this:

Once clicked, a screen should pop out and cover the left side of the virtual classroom

The Khan Exercises table. If you're looking for Fractions type problems, simply search for "fractions" and they will appear.

TABLE OF KHAN EXERCISES

Let's look at the table of 400+ exercises in more detail:

If you click on an exercise name, it will take you to a sample problem (see below). The solved column tells you how many problems a student has solved thus far. And the progress column represents an algorithm we use to help you determine whether a student has mastered this concept: Red means they are still struggling, Yellow means they're intermediate and Green means they are proficient.

You can search for exercises using key words. For example, if we wanted to search for Adding Fractions problems, we could just search for that and the results will get filtered:

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Broken Problems

There are some problems that don't work as expected and others that aren't conducive to being assigned. For example, if you search for the "Graphing Lines" exercise, it will be difficult to work with your student on this problem because of the nature of the problem.

ASSIGNING PROBLEMS

To assign a problem in addition, let's clear out our search and then click on 1. Digit Addition.

Now your screen should look as follows:

A sample 1 Digit Addition Problem.

To let your student solve the problem, be sure to click the purple Assign This Problem button.

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RESPONSE TYPE

Look at the bottom of the above sample problem. You'll see a "Response Type" field. This field is NOT for you to input an answer into. It's to show you what sort of input the student will see. If, for example, the problem you assigned happens to be multiple choice, you'll see the multiple choice options that the student will have to choose from.

WHAT DO STUDENTS SEE?

Once you have opened your sliding panel, a sliding panel will automatically open for your student. When you close your panel, it will close for them automatically as well.

After you've assigned your problem, your student's panel will look like this:

When your student wants to answer the question they simply input it and, make sure they click Check Answer.

HOW DO I SEE MY STUDENTS RESPONSES?

If/when the student answers an assigned problem INCORRECTLY and they hit Check Answer, their screen will appear as follows

On the tutor side, you will see this (there may be a few second delay in seeing their response):

They can keep entering answers and clicking Try Again until they get the correct answer.
When they do answer correctly, the notification for you will appear in green.

Then the student will need to hit the Correct! Next Question button that appears and that new problem will appear for you. The process then repeats.

If you want to assign a new problem, just hit Home in the top left of your pop out and you'll get the table of problems again.

If you need to return to the current problem, just hit Current Problem in the top right of your pop out.

FINISHED WITH THE KHAN EXERCISES

If you need to close out the pop out panel, simply click on PRACTICE again and it will close.

HOW DO I KNOW WHAT EXERCISES TO ASSIGN?

We will offer you some exercises that we think are important to work on before each session. We generally post these on Slack.

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FRIENDLY TIP!

Please remember to let your students input answers by themselves before you help them. This will allow us to have an accurate assessment of whether they can answer the problems by themselves or not.