Need-to-Know BTS 2025: AI-Powered Support, Classroom-Ready Updates, and District Features

What new for back-to-school season 2025

Need-to-Know is our quarterly collection of product releases, new content and courses, and improvements made to functionality—everything you need to know in one place!

Updates and releases as part of your free Khan Academy account

Get Khanmigo-certified

Kick off the year AI-ready with ourfree certification course—practical, bite-sized PD that shows you how to integrate Khanmigo into real classroom moments.

Download your back-to-school checklist

Stay organized with our ready-to-use checklist of resources and tools for a smooth start.

Smarter writing support with Writing Coach

Give students scaffolded feedback across the writing process while keeping teacher control—these short videos get you classroom-ready fast.

New tools to save you time

From AI-powered Blooket integration to flexible essay feedback, assignment previews, and easy exports to Google, our latest Khanmigo updates make teaching more seamless and efficient.

Help families stay engaged with the new Parent Dashboard

Encourage families to keep the learning going at home with Khan Academy’s new Parent Dashboard. Parents can easily track progress, assign practice, and support their child’s growth beyond the classroom.

Hear from teachers and parents

New and updated content to assign to your class

Support financial literacy in the classroom

Financial Literacy

Help students build real-world money skills with Khan Academy’s Financial Literacy course. With short, engaging videos and practice on topics like credit scores, saving for retirement, and tax forms, students gain confidence with concepts that matter beyond school. Use it flexibly for advisory, life-skills classes, or enrichment.

Keep students on track for AP exams

AP Exam Preparation

Our updated AP Physics 1,AP U.S. History, and AP U.S. Government & Politics courses feature refreshed lessons, strategy tips, and exam-style practice that align with College Board standards. Teachers can assign practice sets, FRQ strategies, and new articles to help students feel prepared and confident on test day.

Strengthen reading & vocabulary in upper elementary

Grades 4 & 5 Reading and Vocabulary

Our redesigned 4th– and 5th-grade ELA courses combine short, high-interest texts with standards-aligned comprehension and vocabulary practice. Students build stamina with long-passage assignments, practice key strategies with videos, and grow their vocabulary through morphology-based instruction—perfect for whole-class lessons, small groups, or independent practice.

Build conceptual understanding in math

Grades 3-5 Illustrative Math

Aligned with the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum, our updated 3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-grade math courses emphasize conceptual understanding with visual models, scaffolded hints, and real-world examples. Teachers can easily integrate them into core instruction, intervention, or homework while meeting diverse student needs.

Give students a strong start in SAT prep

SAT Prep

Our “Get Ready for SAT Prep” courses in Reading & Writing and Math are designed for 9th and 10th graders or students scoring below 500 on the PSAT/SAT. These pre-prep resources build foundational literacy and math skills with scaffolded practice and strategy tips, preparing students to transition smoothly into full SAT prep.

Explore middle school science with NGSS-aligned courses

Middle School Physics & Chemistry

Our updated Physics and new Chemistry courses help students explore motion, atoms, and reactions through NGSS-aligned lessons. With engaging videos, practice, and real-world examples, these resources are great for blended learning, independent study, or classroom reinforcement.

Teach real-world coding with Python

Intro to Computer Science – Python

Our complete Intro to Python course is classroom-ready, with auto-graded challenges, scaffolded feedback, and real-world projects, from building recommendation engines to modeling disease spread. Students practice core concepts like loops, functions, and data structures while developing problem-solving skills. No setup required—just open and start coding.

Sharing the love for new courses

Latest features and resources for partner districts

LMS integration made easy

If your district uses Canvas, Google Classroom, or Schoology, Khan Academy now syncs directly through Clever LMS Connect. Assign work in Khan Academy and students can access it through your LMS while you and your admins get real-time progress data.

Seamless classroom transfers

When staff transitions happen, classrooms can now be transferred from one teacher to another automatically via nightly rostering—no setup required on your end.

See district goals in your dashboard

Teachers can now view the goals set by instructional leaders—like student proficiency, Khanmigo usage, or learning minutes—right alongside their own class data.

AI tools for admins (that benefit teachers too)

Administrators now have access to Khanmigo tools for writing SMART goals, drafting IEPs, creating newsletters, and tracking performance—freeing up time and ensuring alignment across your district.

Unit mastery goals set by admins

Admins can now assign unit-level mastery goals to groups of classes, helping keep students on track while reducing the burden on teachers.

Khanmigo in more languages

Khanmigo is now available in beta in Arabic, Chinese (simplified & traditional), Russian, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese—along with English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hindi—to better support multilingual learners and families.

New image input for tutoring

Students can upload diagrams, handwritten work, or screenshots of math and science problems (with a typed question) in “Tutor Me” mode for more personalized Khanmigo tutoring support.

Coming soon: Admin class access

Admins will soon be able to enter classrooms as co-teachers without SIS changes, giving them better visibility into student activity and more ways to support teachers.

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