This article is designed for school or district IT administrators. It contains information about deploying the app school-wide or district-wide and getting teachers started with our program. Questions? Please submit a support ticket here.

Khan Academy Kids is a free, educational mobile app for kids in preschool-2nd grade. Khan Academy Kids covers most math and reading standards and is a great tool to supplement to everyday instruction. Teachers can assign lessons to students that align with what they’re teaching in class, and can individualize assignments to meet different learning needs. Students also have access to a personalized Learning Path, which adjusts in difficulty based on their skill level. In addition to math and reading lessons, Khan Academy Kids also includes activities that promote executive functioning and critical thinking skills, and a library of 300+ books with “Read to Me” and “Read by Myself” options. The Khan Academy Kids app is completely free and available to download on the app store.

We offer additional services for administrators with our Khan Kids for Schools package, which costs $5/student. Services include implementation support, PD for teachers, access to aggregated data via an Admin Dashboard, and web access for teachers. If you’re interested in Khan Kids for schools, please contact us via this form.

How do I give teachers and students access to Khan Academy Kids?

Khan Academy Kids is a mobile app that needs to be downloaded from an app store. Most schools and districts have a multi-device management system that they can use to push out apps to student devices. Here are the devices that are compatible with Khan Academy Kids:

iPads: The app can be pushed out via JAMF or other MDM systems by Apple.
Chromebooks or Android tablets: The app can be pushed out via the Google Admin Console. Click here for instructions.
Kindles or Fire tablets: The app can be pushed out via CLOMO or another MDM agent for Kindle.

How do teachers and students get a Khan Academy Kids account?

If you use Clever in your district, the account setup process is different. Please reference these instructions instead.

Teachers need to download the free mobile app on a school-provided mobile device or on their personal smartphone or tablet. They’ll open the app and tap Sign Up. After verifying their email address, they’ll select the Teacher Setup option and continue through the account setup process. As part of that process, teachers will type or paste in a list of student names.

Each teacher account comes with a unique Class Code that teachers can access in their Settings menu. It’s very important that students use this Class Code to sign in. Students don’t need to create a separate account and do not need to enter their email address into the app at any point. Instead, when they first open the app, it’s important that they select the Sign in with Class Code option in the top right corner and enter their teacher’s Class Code. The app offers the option to type in a six-digit code or scan the accompanying QR code.

Please note that there is not currently a way to set up teacher accounts in bulk. We recommend that teachers each create their own account using their school email address.

Using Khan Academy Kids with Clever

If you use Clever in your district, the account setup process is different. Please reference these instructions instead.

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Table of contents:

What is Khan Academy Kids?

How do I give teachers and students access to Khan Academy Kids?

How do teachers and students get a Khan Academy Kids account?

Using Khan Academy Kids with Clever

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