This right over here is an exercise about the Spanish-American War and AP American history on Khan Academy. We start off in student mode and notice that if the student asks for an explanation, it doesn’t just give the answer; it does what a good tutor would do and just tries to nudge the student in the right direction. Everything is also monitored, so the teacher can see what the student is interacting with as a safety measure.
If we turn student mode off and go into teacher mode, we see it is very different. When the teacher asks for an explanation, it is like having the teacher’s guide; it will give a very detailed explanation. If the teacher wants a lesson plan for it, they just need to ask for it and they will get a very detailed lesson plan with objectives and activities, and things to do for homework.
If the teacher says, “Give a handout or give a reflection for homework,” it will actually give the reflection assignment. If a teacher likes, they can ask to customize these lesson plans, prompts, or reflections as much as they like to make it more relevant to what their students are doing. This is something that teachers oftentimes spend hours a day working on, and Khan Academy hopes to save them a lot of time and energy for their own well-being and for their students.