Using the Administrator Skills Report to drive differentiation on Khan Academy

Today, I'm going to be showing you how to use the skills progress report in the administrator dashboard and the Khan Academy platform. This is going to be a great tool in order for you to support your teachers in differentiation in their classrooms. You can share this data with specific teachers, PLCs, or department chairs.

So, once you log into Khan Academy, go head over to the left-hand panel, and you can click on the skills progress tab. Once you click on that tab, the screen that you see before you will pop up on your screen. This report has many filters, so I'm going to walk you through each one of them so you can see how this can fit your needs.

So, the first is a date range. There's a drop-down menu; you can choose from today, the last seven days, the last 30 days, or a custom range. Maybe you want to pick the first semester or the first six weeks or nine weeks of a semester. So, I have chosen May 4th through September 26th. You can pick the Khan Academy course of your choice; I have chosen Algebra 1. You can pick one school or many schools. For this example, I'm going to just choose one school.

You can choose multiple grades, the district course, and the teacher or multiple teachers. So, once you have all your filters in place, you can go ahead and hit the blue apply button and wait for the report to load. Once the report has loaded, there will be two additional drop-down menus that appear. There's a unit view or a combined view, and then you can choose how you want to see the report by skill level or number of students.

So, I have picked the number of students high to low, and then I'm going to pick the unit review so I can see the specific units and the skills in that unit. So, as you can see in bold letters on the top of each chart, there is the unit, and then within that unit, it tells you there are seven skills. Over to the right, you see the skill levels; the darkest purple is the most mastered, and the lightest is attempted.

Once you look at each skill, they're listed in bold above each bar, and the common core standards are right next to it. So, I'm going to look for the lightest purple, and the first one I see is combining like terms with negative coefficients and distribution. So, I'm going to click on this, and I see that there are three students: Jason, Carla, and Chelsea, that may need some more support. But I see that students seem to be very successful in equivalent expressions.

So, you want to do your comparison. You may want to look at individual teachers, or you may want to compare teachers that teach the same skill to see where we need to make changes in teaching that specific skills to students or where we may need intervention, remediation, or acceleration.

So, the best thing that you can do is either take a screenshot and share it with your teachers or use the CSV export that is right up on top or the blue download arrow so that you can export this report and share it with the teachers that need the information. If you need more support on this skills progress data, please contact your District Success Manager, and they'll be more than happy to give you some more support and tips on how to use this with teachers.