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Khanmigo Teacher Tools in Canvas

Learn how to use Khanmigo Teacher Tools in your course.

Written by Stefani Vaus, Digital Support Specialist

Introduction to Khanmigo Teacher Tools

Khanmigo is an AI-powered teaching assistant developed by Khan Academy to enhance learning experiences. It's role as an AI-powered assistant enables educators to focus on fostering high-level thinking, critical analysis, and meaningful student engagement. Khanmigo can assist instructors in designing lesson plans by suggesting topics, resources, and examples for specific subjects or courses. The Khan Academy mission is to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Khan Academy focuses on skill mastery to help learners build the strong foundations they need to succeed in higher education and in their careers. Khanmigo Teacher Tools is now available for faculty as of Fall 2024.

Functionality

Higher education institutions can use the Khanmigo Teacher Tools to assist in designing lesson plans, brainstorming discussions, help make topics relevant to specific classes and students, provide easy-to-follow instructions for assignments and activities, creating rubrics, and much more. Instructors can use the tools to personalize material to their specific courses and gain ideas to booster meaningful student engagement. It can assist in some form or fashion with most of the course subjects we offer at UT Tyler.

The tools are color coded to help navigate and distinguish between the various features. They are separated between plan, create, differentiate, support, and learn.

  • PLAN could be using the learning objective(s), lesson plans, and discussion prompts tools.
  • CREATE is using topics and learning objectives to create clear directions, multiple choice quizzes, creating a rubric, letters of recommendation, and more.
  • DIFFERENTIATE is adjusting the complexity of a given text, making it relevant to your students, and providing real world context.
  • SUPPORT would be using the "SMART Goal Writer" to create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals.
  • LEARN is using the "Refresh My Knowledge" so you can test your knowledge and refresh before speaking in front of the class or releasing material.

How to Enable

Khanmigo has been turned on for all instructors but would still in the be enabled in the courses you wish to use the tools. In the course you wish to see the tools, go to settings> Navigation> Under the disabled, click the three-dot icon by Khanmigo Teacher Tools> Enable> Move it to where you would like it to appear on your navigation> Save. The documents you create with the Khanmigo Teacher Tool will appear in any course that you have enabled Khanmigo and you have the ability to share a link with another instructor, print, and save documents to various document platforms. 

Pocket Workshop

1. Discussion Prompts
Click on the Discussion Prompts, choose the Grade Level, and Topic. For this exercise, I chose the College level and the topic of Business Contracts.

Image 3: Business Contracts - Discussion Topics This image contains a bulleted list titled "Business contracts - Discussion topics" with three discussion areas and related questions: Clear Terms and Conditions: Questions about the enforceability of contracts, risks of ambiguity, and defining terms clearly. Negotiation in Contracts: Questions about achieving win-win outcomes, power dynamics, and cultural influences in negotiations. Ethical Considerations: Questions about ethical dilemmas, balancing profit and ethics, and maintaining transparency in contracts.

2. Make it Relevant
Click on Make it Relevant, put in a Learning Objective, and Class Profile. For this exercise, I put Diagnosing Patients as the objective and a class profile as people who have never worked in healthcare.

Image 2: Diagnosing Patients for Healthcare Beginners This image features a bulleted list titled "Diagnosing Patients for Healthcare Beginners" with objectives and activities: Objective: Develop an interactive session to teach symptom recognition and diagnosis using familiar examples, such as differentiating between a cold and a fever. Interactive Diagnosis Simulation: A role-playing activity to guide students through diagnosing fictional patients collaboratively. Exploring Diagnostic Tools: A demonstration or virtual tour of healthcare tools like stethoscopes and thermometers, teaching their use in diagnosis.

3. Real World Context Generator
Click on Real World Context Generator, select a Grade level, and put in a topic. For this exercise, I chose the College level and the topic was Chemistry in everyday life.

Image 1: Chemistry in Everyday Life This image displays a numbered list titled "Chemistry in Everyday Life" with six topics exploring how chemistry applies to daily experiences. Each topic includes examples and explanations: Cooking and Baking: Examines the chemical interactions in food, such as the Maillard reaction, and their effects on browning and flavor. Cleaning Agents: Discusses surfactants and pH in detergents, with examples of removing dirt or grease. Pharmaceuticals: Highlights chemistry's role in drug development and synthesizing medications. Environmental Chemistry: Explores chemical processes affecting the environment, like acid rain and greenhouse gases. Cosmetics and Personal Care Products: Explains the formulation of everyday products like lotions. Beverage Chemistry: Discusses the chemistry in creating beverages like coffee and soda.

Connect with us

Office of Digital Learning

Email: canvas@uttyler.edu
Phone: (903) 566-6200

We are very excited to offer this tool to the faculty and hope the Khanmigo Teacher Tools elevate the student engagement and learning experience! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to the Office of Digital Learning.

Office of Digital Learning