Khanmigo for Teachers: Your free AI-powered teaching tool

Imagine having a teaching tool that’s always ready to help you with brainstorming, creating, and innovating. Meet Khanmigo for Teachers. Created by Khan Academy and powered by Azure OpenAI Service, Khanmigo for Teachers is available for free in English across 49 countries in partnership with Microsoft. Keep reading to find out how to get started with Khanmigo for Teachers and transform your teaching toolkit.

Khanmigo for Teachers helps generate fresh lesson ideas, personalizes student assignments, and provides resources for educators to enhance their knowledge and stay current on content area topics. It’s quick to set up and even quicker to use. Khanmigo for Teachers helps you inject new life into learning experiences and streamline your prep work so that you can focus more on connecting with students and watching those “aha!” moments unfold.

Designed for educators

Khanmigo for Teachers is designed for educators (by a team of educators!) and requires no prompting. While AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot excel at helping you write letters, explain a concept, create an image, or analyze a file, Khanmigo focuses specifically on providing tailored educational experiences for you to get started with. Watch the Empowering teachers with AI video to see how one chemistry teacher uses Khanmigo to engage students in the classroom.

Khanmigo is designed to make your job less about paperwork and more about teaching. It’s built to understand the challenges you face in the classroom and to be user-friendly. Khanmigo offers over 25 educator-specific tools to save you time and enhance your teaching expertise. Simply type in your topic or pick from the suggestions, and you get innovative and interesting lesson plans, activities, and more.

How to get started with Khanmigo for Teachers

Getting started with Khanmigo for Teachers is easy. In just a few simple steps, you’ll be on your way. To set up your account:

1. Go to khanmigo.ai/teachers
2. Select “Teacher” as your account type.
3. Choose your preferred option for creating an account (i.e., using email or a social media account).
4. Fill out the required information on the form.
5. Select “Sign up” and you’ll be ready to get started.

After you sign into your account, you’ll be guided through a brief tour and have access to the features and resources available on Khanmigo.

Get to know the Khanmigo dashboard

The Khanmigo dashboard is your starting point for managing your students’ assignments, supporting your instructional needs, and accessing curated resources. Explore the tabs at the top of the dashboard for easy access to Khanmigo’s features.

• Khanmigo Tools: Find AI-powered tools to help you innovate and create.
• Classes: Create your classes and obtain a class snapshot of your students’ performance over the past week, including learning time, assignment completion, and mastery progress.
• Students: Manage student accounts quickly and easily and set reading levels and default language.
• Resources: Get access to ready-to-use printables for students and families, all the documents you create, and professional learning videos and tips in one easy place.

Use Khanmigo to lighten your load

The Khanmigo for Teachers tools can be organized into five categories—Plan, Create, Differentiate, Support, and Learn—to help you easily find what you need to enhance learning experiences.

• Plan: Tools designed to enhance instructional planning and classroom management. They can help you:
  • Review student performance trends.
  • Craft meaningful discussion prompts.
  • Create quick end-of-lesson assessments, and more.

• Create: Tools designed to enhance classroom communication, streamline assessments, and support instructional planning. Use this collection to:
  • Generate concise easy-to-follow directions for assignments.
  • Create detailed rubrics for setting expectations.
  • Design engaging class newsletters.

• Differentiate: Tools to tailor instruction and meet diverse student interests and needs. Use these tools to help you:
  • Break up complex texts.
  • Adjust text complexity.
  • Link lesson content to students’ lives and interests.
  • Enhance engagement and comprehension.

• Support: Tools to streamline and enhance student support services, designed to help you:
  • Streamline the creation of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).
  • Create SMART goals with ease (Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic, and Time-bound).

• Learn: Tools to enhance your professional knowledge and skills. Use these to:
  • Refresh your content knowledge in various subject areas through quizzing or conversing with Khanmigo.
  • Get resources, such as videos, articles, and practice exercises, to help you get up to speed on the selected topic.

All Khanmigo’s tools feature intuitive prompts to help you get started quickly. Simply tell Khanmigo your grade or year level and a few key details, and it’ll effortlessly provide you with what you need. Now, let’s take a closer look at how some of the tools work.

Spark your students’ curiosity

Capturing students’ interest in the content being covered is key to ensuring their enthusiasm and engagement. Khanmigo tools like Lesson Hook, Make it Relevant, and Real-World Context Generator can help you brainstorm ways to spark excitement and make content relevant.

• Lesson Hook: Generate several compelling ideas by providing the grade or year level, lesson topic, and context. This tool helps you create an engaging opening to your lessons that captures students’ attention right from the start.
• Make it Relevant!: Connect lesson topics to your students’ lives or interests. Input your learning objectives and a brief profile of your class, and this tool will offer several ideas to boost engagement by making the content more relatable.
• Real-World Context Generator: Link lesson topics to real-world examples and applications. By entering the grade level and topic, Khanmigo provides relevant connections, making the material more meaningful and practical for your students.

Streamline your workflows

You can easily make your workflows more efficient and save time with Khanmigo tools. Get a head start on essential administrative and instructional tasks with tools like Class Newsletter, Report Card Comments, Question Generator, and Recommended Assignments. The tools help you save time by providing you with starting content that you can build on.

• Class Newsletter: Imagine turning your bullet points into a stylish newsletter in a snap! Just list the week’s highlights, upcoming events, and key announcements. Khanmigo whips up a draft and can even translate it. Pro tip: Always double-check those translations before hitting send!
• Report Card Comments: No more staring at a blank screen! Feed Khanmigo a list of strengths and areas for growth, and watch it spin out thoughtful, actionable comments that you can personalize for your students.
• Question Generator: Need discussion starters or quiz questions? Just give Khanmigo the grade or year level, number of questions (up to 10), and up to 4,500 words of text, and you’ve got a question bank to build from.
• Recommend Assignments: Receive assignment suggestions based on your students’ performance data. Customize these tasks or assign them directly to address areas where students need more practice or can excel.

These are just a few of the ways Khanmigo for Teachers can help you get ahead this year. If you’re ready to jump in, sign up for Khanmigo for Teachers today and be sure to reference our Khanmigo for Teachers Quick Guide as you’re getting started!