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Khan Academy is a non-profit organization that provides free, high-quality Math/Science, etc instruction for millions of learners around the world.
What kind of design work do you do at Khan Academy?
My work as a Designer at Khan Academy has ranged from multi-month, research-heavy vision setting to quick-turnaround hackathon projects that help teachers navigate Khan Academy’s content interactively to embedding with other teams so that we can develop a more classroom-centered approach in their surface area to more typical feature development cycles, and everything in between.
QUICK FACTS
Design team:
15-20 Designers (Between 5-7 Product Designers)
Organization:
Around 300 employees; Founded 10+ years ago
Primary platform: Responsive web
CONTEXT
I joined Khan Academy in October of 2018 (before the pandemic). Since then, I have been based on the Classroom team (designing for teachers), but have worked with our SAT Prep team and our Districts team as well.
Student understanding, at-a-glance
In early 2020, I shipped a report that allows teachers to visually compare “mastery levels,” or the depth of understanding a single student has demonstrated, across all of the content in a single Khan Academy course, such as High school geometry.
What could teaching with Khan look like 3 years from now?
In late 2020 (to early 2021), I co-lead Design on a massive 3-year vision undertaking for the product organization. What started as an exercise in understanding teacher adoption lead to a deep research and visioning exercise that crossed all of our core platform teams.
Assignment management for the weary teacher
In 2021, I shipped a series of long-desired improvements to the way teachers can manage assignments that they have created for their class on Khan Academy, including a way to schedule assignments in advance and a method for bulk editing multiple assignments at once.