And thank you for all taking time

out of what's gotta be an incredibly busy day

to join us for this webinar.

My name is Karen White, and I am on the Product Team

here at Khan Academy.

I am also the mother of two girls, ages 12 and 17,

both of whom have been out of school since last Friday.

One with a distance learning plan

and one with no plan at all.

So we are definitely winging it here

in San Jose, California, while we shelter in place.

I'm sure many of you are as well.

With me today, we have Dan Tieu from our Marketing Team.

You can see him if you go to the next slide,

see him pictured there with his nieces and nephews.

And we have Sophie Turnbull in that picture

with a helicopter.

She's going to be talking to those of you

with little ones about how to get started

on our Khan Kids app which is designed

as a mobile app for kids two through seven.

I wanna thank our friends at Bank of America

for generously supporting our ability

to bring school closures resources to you at this time.

And finally, before we dive in,

I just wanna mention that this session will be recorded

and it will be sent out by email soon after

we finish this session.

Also uploaded to YouTube for easy access.

So if you need to step away, if you miss parts,

don't worry about it, it will be available to you

to review and to share with your friends and family.

So with that, today, we're going to help you

and your child get started on Khan Academy.

If you are a teacher, we're not gonna be going

through the teacher experience in this webinar,

but we're gonna send these slides out,

and that link on the right over there

that says watch this webinar,

that will take you to teacher webinar we recorded

earlier this week, it's fantastic and it'll give you

everything you need to get started there.

We're also not going to be doing a step by step

walkthrough of the setup, but in a couple slides

you're gonna see our quick start guides

that actually will do that for you quite well.

So, a little bit more about Khan Academy.

First of all, this came up in a number of questions

from the pre-webinar survey.

Khan Academy is free.

We are a nonprofit organization

and all of our instruction and practice is always free

to learners and parents and their teachers.

Khan Academy is a trusted source.

You can trust us because we've been doing this

for a long time, more than 10 years

with millions of users around the world.

All of our math courses are Common Core aligned

and our other non-AP math courses

include both Common Core material and additional content.

Our AP math courses are aligned to the AP standards

and as I mentioned, we served, even before

the school closure started, we were serving

well over 10 million learners around the globe every month.

And finally, Khan Academy is flexible.

The Khan Academy main app which is what I'm gonna be

talking to you about is available on desktop, web,

iOS, or Android, anytime, anywhere,

translated into over 40 languages.

Sophie's gonna talk to you later

about the Khan Kids app which is a mobile app only.

But Khan Academy is a main,

Khan Academy we're gonna be talking about

for the next 10 minutes or so,

is available on desktop as well.

So, now let's get into what it really means

to learn on Khan Academy.

And in our pre-webinar survey,

the most common question we got,

and thanks everyone who took the time to fill it out.

The most common question we got

was how do I figure out what my child should be learning?

That's a great question because if you're like me

you might not know exactly what your kids were up to

right before the school closure started

and you're certainly not used to teaching it, right?

I've been a mother to my younger daughter for 12 years

and I've been her teacher for about 12 hours.

So, I would say the first thing to do

is pat yourself on the back for trying to pull this off

during a time that has a lot of other stressors

in play as well.

So with that preamble, here are a few tips

to getting started.

First things first, look at your child's homework

and their textbooks.

If you have access to a parent or a student portal

for your school, you might be able to log in

and see what assignments your teachers,

your child's teacher have lined up before school let out.

That'll give you some clues as to where to start

their learning path.

If you don't have that, that's okay.

You can select a course on Khan Academy

based on your child's age and grade.

And you can navigate your way through that

any number of ways.

You can start with their very first lesson.

We're gonna talk in a few minutes

about how to start with the Course Challenge

to identify learning gaps quickly.

Or you can let your child choose where to start.

And even if your child chooses something

that kind of feels easy to you, that's okay.

Those early math skills are foundational

to more advanced math, and it's not necessarily

a bad thing to have your child review that material

and gain confidence and really just keep

the brain training going while we're in this

really unusual time.

Finally, for high school students

who are enrolled in AP or are studying for the SATs,

we have most pop, the most popular AP courses

on Khan Academy, and we also have our Official SAT prep.

I can vouch for that as a parent of a senior.

It is incredibly valuable.

My daughter used it as her sole way

to prepare for the SAT and was really, really happy

with her results.

So, overall, if I had to give you one mantra

to remember, it's this.

Some learning is better than no learning.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

There's all sorts of things that are being demand of you

right now and just get started,

it's very easy to course correct,

to change your learning path and make adjustments

as you go with Khan Academy.

So, next up, I wanna share those quick start guides

I was mentioning.

These links, again, this will be provided to you

after the webinar.

There are three different guides here.

Two for Khan Academy and one for Khan Academy Kids.

Just for a little bit of context

on why we have different guides

for younger and older children on Khan Academy.

It basically comes down to the fact that

there are some regulatory requirements

around setting up accounts for younger kids

that require your approval.

And so what we wanted to do was give you

the absolute fastest most efficient way to get started

based on your child's situation,

and these guides are customized

for the fastest path through

to get your child learning and then to get you

set up as a parent.

So, lots of support in there in those guides.

What I'm gonna do now is jump into what happens

once you're signed up.

And this is what you're gonna see first.

You're going to be offered the opportunity

to personalize your child's learning

by selecting their grade level

and seeing what courses we recommend.

Now, regardless of our suggestion,

your child can choose any course on Khan Academy.

So if you have a child who's really into math

and is generally performing above grade level

and loves a challenge, you can choose any course

that's right for that child.

Same the other way.

If you have someone who's struggling,

don't feel bound to the grade level suggestions.

And after you've done that, so you've selected a course,

you can select more than one,

you can always go back and add,

this is what your child's experience is going to look like.

The courses will show up on the home page

whenever they log in.

And you'll see that Khan Academy is designed

to give your child a lot of agency

in terms of where they're going to go

to do their next task.

And that can be great.

If you've got a child whose engaged and motivated,

let them roam around, let them take these things

in the order that sparks their interest and energy.

It can also be a little challenging and overwhelming

if you've got a younger child to have so many choices.

So one of the things we like to do

when we're in the classroom with young children

is say, follow the blue button.

You can see there that red arrow

is pointed at a blue start button.

That's pretty much always gonna be a good call.

It will essentially take the child linearly

through the course, starting with the most basic skills

and advancing from there.

So, always an option if you wanna give your child

a little bit more of a sense of where to go next.

So, once you've done that, if you were to click

into any one of those units,

those then turn into lessons that include instruction,

practice, and assessments.

If you look at where those arrows are,

you can see the practice exercise is on the right

and the instructional resources on the left.

So, if your child is practicing and is finding

that the material is a little bit challenging,

but not so challenging that they wanna move

to a different level.

They're likely to find an article or a video

or a series of them right next to that practice content

that can support them as they're practicing

and reinforce those skills.

And then, the other thing I wanted to mention

is this course challenge.

So every, most of our math courses

are gonna have this challenge,

and it's a great way to accelerate the process

of getting your child to that learning edge,

that place where they're struggling a little bit

in a productive way, but not so much

that they get discouraged.

And the way to do this is you scroll to the bottom

of the course page and you'll see this button

that says, start course challenge.

These do take a little bit of time,

so you wanna leave 30 or 45 minutes

for the child to get through that,

but what you're gonna come out of it with

is the sense of the skills

that they're really comfortable with

and the skills where they might need some more practice.

Especially given where we are in the school year,

this is a pretty good option for you

because there's going to be a lot of content

that feels familiar in most cases.

So starting at the beginning may not be

what you need to do.

The one caveat I'll say is at least if you've got

a child who is generally in the mode of performing,