Khan Academy Reviews

by Sky_blue02

I had used KhanAcademy in the past for math and it was great for that. The history lessons, however, are atrocious. Rather than objectively presenting the facts, it gives a warped view of things. For example, the authors have somehow figured out how people ‘felt’ during history. No citations. No quotes. They just claim that this person/group felt this, that person/group felt that. I find the personal feelings of past figures to be secondary to learning the course of events. But, if they did feel some need to include them, they could at least cite sources or provide quotes. I saw none. It turned what could’ve been a factual history lesson into some subjective mind-reading of the past. All it was really instructing me on was someone’s opinion of what people in the past felt. It wasn’t educational. Not only is there a bias of perspective — today’s opinion of the past may differ greatly from how people in the past actually experienced it. Opinion and feeling are not the point. It’s history, not group therapy. As I said, if you want to include feelings, at least use quotes, cite sources. But, again, that really isn’t the point. History is not about the feelings of one person or even a group of people, it’s about objective events. Sadly, there was so little of that here, I just deleted KhanAcademy . What a sad thing education has become!

by SteV3nom

KhanAcademy is honestly embarrassing, it crashes within 10 seconds of opening it, and that’s not a one-time runtime error or anything, this is, fully updated on iOS 12, crashing before I can even access a lesson. I have courses I need to complete for my programming class and I can’t even start to explain how terrible KhanAcademy is. I can understand a whole new iOS version coming out and there being a crash bug or something not working quite right after launch, that’s totally to be expected, but this. This is honestly disgraceful. They haven’t updated KhanAcademy in over 3 weeks, and it has been unusable for over 3 weeks as a result. The service itself is honestly fine, but KhanAcademy is disgustingly broken. If I could actually complete some parts of my lesson when I am away from my PC that would be great, so my thought process at that point would be to download KhanAcademy , and sure enough it isn’t stable enough to stay open for more than 10 seconds. As a programming student, I find this mistake on their part absolutely embarrassing and I can’t believe it still has not been patched. 0/5 stars.

by Paleontologeek

Khan Academy used to be good when the whole system wasn’t broken. Everything is overcomplicated, and requires you to waste hours on what can only be defined as guesswork.
The way you MUST type in math answers exactly right with no forgiveness is absolutely disgusting, especially when the whole point is taken off. Is one typo really a reason to drop the grade down a whole point? Especially when my Teacher grades this on a 1-4 scale. One wrong answer drops the grade to a 75%. Ridiculous.
The fact that using a hint or watching a video takes off the whole point is also completely unjust. Please consider making the system more tailored to learning through visual processing and not repetition and failure.
I hope that this system is fixed and makes it more about learning than catering towards students who already have mastered the material. This is not practice if the student does not already know the material.
As a student who has a teacher who relies solely on Khan Academy to teach, I feel absolutely frustrated when spending hours upon hours attempting to beat the system.

by Pawkitz

The last few updates introduced bugs that make some exercises impossible to complete or progress in, even after resetting KhanAcademy .

1. Formatting on many math exercises has been completely broken. Numbers and equations are duplicated (for example 11 instead of 1, 3x+23x+2 instead of 3x+2). Font formatting has been broken as well, with some problems being displayed in a mix of large and tiny font. Some multiple choice math problems are impossible to progress through because the answers are not selectable, they are formatted in a side-scrolling table which is clearly not intentional on KA’s side.

2. Inputting answers in math exercises is occasionally bugged. I’ve experienced two different bugs. One causes the keyboard to retract after every button selected, forcing you to tap again and again and input one number at a time. The second bug makes it impossible to scroll left and right on the keyboard without the button you swipe on being inputted in the answer field, forcing you to go back and delete each extraneous number or sign before submitting your answer.

3. Possibly not a bug but still annoying: The “correct answer” and “exercise completed” jingle now takes over the audio on iPhone, pausing whatever music, ebook or podcast you’re listening to. I like to listen to other things while working on KA exercises and it’s frustrating to have to constantly restart whatever I’m listening to when I’m doing exercises.

by MyPadisNotYourPad

First of all thank you Mr. Kahn! Much love and many blessings.
Ok I will be brief...
When either using the touchscreen on my iPad Pro (updated OS, no beta) or my professional desktop Bluetooth mouse there seems to be an input issue pertaining to utilizing interactive diagrams (am currently brushing up on basic Geometry) wherein as one “clicks” or taps upon the green dot to place or create a specific angle the OS gets confused as to whether the user is attempting to move the held line segment, line or ray rather than scrolling the page itself up and down. If the interactive diagram is at the bottom of say a review page then the problem is impossible to solve. Otherwise it’s just horribly frustrating to figure it out. So far have only had this issue on chapter reviews and not on quizzes or tests. Hope the fix is easy (my guess is that changing the ability to scroll up and down in the interactive areas should resolve this issue. Thank’s again!

by Con+Con

I love KhanAcademy so much and it’s helping me learn so much especially since we have to learn at home. This also gives me tons of ideas to do stuff and I loved the schedule you gave us. Problem is sometimes when I’m doing math the place where I have to write something disappears then I have to go look for it somewhere. Also sometimes it’s not clear if I have to do something or not. There’s so much going on I get so confused. I’m not sure if it’s my internet but my questions glitch a lot when I’m working, but the videos don’t glitch at all. Also sometimes I finished a test or those work sheets or whatever their called and I get a 4/4 percent then it makes me do it all over again for about 6 times. It gets really annoying until I don’t want to do it anymore. All in all this is a helpful app.

by Cute645

Khan Academy is an incredible learning app that is totally free! If you want to start learning with an amazing curriculum that is free, download KhanAcademy, create or use any account, pick your courses, and start learning! There are many amazing videos for you to pick and learn from. Then complete lessons that help you master the topic. Also, take quizzes to test your knowledge, and then take a unit test! Collect mastery points from lessons to customize your character! I am in 6th grade, and have an advanced math curriculum, meaning I learn 7th grade math. So when I picked my courses, I originally thought that I just had to pick a grade level, and then I would just learn that grade level standards. Well, that’s not the case! I can pick anything for my subjects! As soon as I downloaded and set up KhanAcademy , I started learning and it was incredible! No bugs, so you should definitely download this! Khan Academy, you deserve so much money and support! Thank you.

by SuzanneKanj

I’m so in love with Khan Academy, and I’m so grateful for it!! It’s really simple to use, and it has all the subjects that I need. And it’s free!!!!
I am a foreign student who recently moved to the US, and I just started my first semester at cuny as a biology/premed student. Biology is hard, especially that English isn’t my first language. The textbook is really hard to understand and I have to translate most of the words, but Khan Academy made it so much easier for me. The language that the professor uses in the videos is really simple and understandable, yet academic and professional! The best thing is that when I don’t understand something, I can repeat the videos as many as I want!! In addition, there are articles about the same subject that I can read after or before the video!
I just want to thank everyone in Khan Academy! You guys are the best!!

by G123876durp87sgd

There are mistakes in some videos. Sometimes he writes down a different number without explaining why he changed it. There is one example in one format, and all the questions in the practice part are in a different format and you have to learn how to solve it yourself. I have spent over an hour in one practice section because even though I did all the math correct, the way I was typing it into my calculator was missing parenthesis that in the explanation didn’t even say to do so. Basically, I was getting some questions right and some questions wrong even though I did all the math correctly. The explanation misinformed me by forgetting things like parenthesis that will make you end up with a completely different answer. It would be nice if there was a way to restart a unit test in the middle of doing it. To start from the beginning again would be nice because I have spent the last 6 hours redoing one unit, I’ve had to redo the unit test over 10 times, and each time I make a mistake, I hav to finish all the other questions correctly before having to restart again. Overall, it’s annoying and a waste of my time.

by Sûb To Pęwdįépīė

As a 14 year old living in the US, my history and feelings toward school are near-identical to many. It had always affected my mental state in a negative way, and made me feel like there was a chain wrapped around my foot. It slowed me down.
Khan Academy did the complete opposite. I’ve used KhanAcademy consistently through the past two years and have done things I could never dream of in school. I motivated myself to finish 3 years worth of mathematics, and did so in a considerably short amount of time. That was only possible with KhanAcademy. Where school made me lye my head down on a desk for an hour every day, khan academy helped me learn wherever and whenever I could.
KhanAcademy isn’t perfect, but it’s monumentally better then everything else I’ve seen. Thank you for your time, and thank KhanAcademy for the time it’s given me.

by Landis The Destroyer

KhanAcademy has helped me so much in college when I didn’t understand concepts and formulas. I don’t know why people are complaining about not seeing their progress on KhanAcademy or that it lacks in depth because Khan Academy isn’t supposed to be a replacement for a class. He goes over the basics of whatever subject you’re researching because you can’t do advanced material without learning the basics first. Also, progress is in the mind and you shouldn’t have to rely on an app to tell you that. In college, professors don’t have the time to do one-on-one sessions with students and quickly go through a whole year of subjects separated into segments in five months on specific days. I sometimes can’t keep up so I use Khan Academy after homework hours to look up sections/concepts I missed or couldn’t understand in very little time to teach my myself the missing components. Thank you Khan Academy for making my academic life easier.

by Sssssnice

I personally love KhanAcademy. My son and daughter has been using it until they were toddlers since they are twelve now they still use it! I told them to use it a lot since that they could still use it when they are older....my son he uses it when he has stress with his homework so that he could have more ideas! I think KhanAcademy is made for everyone because when they were just little small toddler I helped them on some stuff so they could do some simple math an now since they are older now I could let them be so they could experience the world of learning in Khan Academy! I decided to write a review this time of the year because since they are back to school they could maybe have some experience in what their class is learning! Something they really like about KhanAcademy and I do too is that it corrects them if they got it wrong so they try it again. But um mean during quarantine when school did not start yet they have been using KhanAcademy for hours...every time their mom and I ask them out for lunch or breakfast they always say 1 more hour 🤗. I think they really like it now but I think they are too into it their mom said maybe their growing up to fast and forgetting about us. But I think that they just need to have some time and think! OTHERWISE THEY LOVE KhanAcademy !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING KhanAcademy AND YOUR TEAM WE LOVE IT!!!!

by [email protected] 78675$

its so clear and straightforward and helps me learn math quick. it is the only reason i could be learning algebra1 at 5th grade yes it is very good only question: is KhanAcademy written in swift?(the programming language)

and to all the haters out there: who says khan only has vids? you’re probably the ones who don’t notice the text reviews and practice quizzes. Also, you can just skip over a quiz if you find it hard or just get 50 or 0 points on it. u can still do the other vids and quizzes.

suggestion: maybe make the point system more accurate instead of just 50 for 3/4 or 5/7 right and 80 for 4/4 or 7/7. you could do like a 20% for each question on 4 question quiz and 11% for each question on a 7 question quiz or smth. and have the mastery stuff raise ur stuff by (100-curretpoints)%20+30 points (% for modulo) that would be cool and (in my opinion) more accurate than the current system.

by Renegade3115

I love the new layout and of course I love Kahn academy. Which is why I gave it three stars. But I’ve gone through course reviews and challenges and keep having to redo because there’s an error saving an exercise. I just tried taking the course challenge and got through all the problems but the last I got an error. So I re-entered the challenge only to find that the progress I’d made on the 29 problems up to the last had also disappeared and I was being required to take the entire challenge of 30 problems over again. As I’d already spent my allotted time for Kahn for the day, I’ll have to come back tomorrow and start again. To be sure this is just a review course for me so in the grand scheme of things I could proceed to the more advanced course without problem, but I just so like seeing that 100% on every course.

UPDATE: after the latest update, I’ve gotten through challenges and practice without an app error and my progress is saved, so as of now, anyway, I’m quite pleased with KhanAcademy .

by JosiahJosiah517

I live in poverty. I know hardship and struggle. I know what it’s like to have to go to a school that doesn’t have access to the best resources. When I first took the SAT, I scored a 790. The class preceding mine had an average score of 730. It wasn’t that we were dumb or stupid, it’s just our educators could not adequately prepare us. I realized that I had to supplement my education with something more conducive to my growth and intellectual advancement. I began to use Khan Academy, watching math videos, practicing math problems and in 6 months I was able to score an 1180. Now that may not seem high, but when compared the class average(820) it looked amazing. Khan academy opened up tremendous opportunities for me. I got accepted to 7 colleges, received full ride opportunities to The University of Michigan and Michigan State University, becoming the first in my family to go to college. Without khan academy I would have never got accepted to college, let alone be able afford it! I am so grateful for Khan Academy and even more so because it was free!

by Rslitman

Pretty good app. I am giving it five stars, even though a recent update put everything in deeper layers. I used to be able to see every video, article, and practice exercise for a course, plus its mission if it has one, on the same screen. Now I have to dig deeper. Please return an expanded view to us! Also, we no longer see our consecutive days streak.

The iPad app is missing a few things found in the web version, in addition to the consecutive days streak, but it is quite adequate for the learning experience.

The most maddening thing is that when you roll out a new version with a major change like this, you still say “Bug fixes and performance enhancements.” Please give this review a Developer Response and let us know that you will {in the future/in future} be detailed with your updates when something major like the whole interface changes. Also, please let us know why the consecutive days counter (more motivating to me than energy points and about as motivating as the badges) was removed and if there’s a chance we can get it back. Thanks!

by DrNateDPT

I’m currently working towards my second doctorate and all along the way khan academy has been there for me. Whether you’re using it as a stand-alone learning tool to try and wrap your head around a difficult subject, or need something more user-friendly and understandable to supplement an actual formal course, you couldn’t ask for anything better than khan academy. Their instructors are adept at making even some of the most complicated subjects with high attrition rates relatively easy to understand and breaking things down into short lessons that teach you concepts (or intuitions as Sal would call them!) which make learning the smaller details much easier. I’ll often watch a few khan academy videos to get a good general idea of what a subject is about before diving into the bullet points and materials (PowerPoints, textbooks, etc) offered by my formal professors in courses, and I’ve found this to be very effective in my own learning journey. As someone who has taken A LOT of college courses in my life, I couldn’t more highly recommend khan academy.

by ^&*(

What an incredible app. I’m so impressed. This company deserves loads of money to be thrown at it for making it free. My son has just switched from a Cambridge school to an American School and missed a lot of work. I think we were both about to give up. I didn’t know where to start to help him and being his new school is completely iPad based we felt deep despair at just the thought of trying to navigate through classrooms codes and half working text book apps. Now it’s all here in one place! Simple well explained and the practice really gets your confidence going. He had some maths homework and instead of the total melt down we both would have had trying to work out what was going on we flew through it!! THANK YOU! I love the fact that all the grades are here too so if there is a concept he is struggling with we can go back in the grades to see where that was introduced and work through it! We have been struggling for months trying to find the answer on line. It was only due to the fact that Khan kept coming up that I googled it and found KhanAcademy . I truly pray this company gets loads of financial support to keep KhanAcademy going! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

by Vortexisawesome

Okie, so I would actually give this 10 stars because this is an amazing place of education, and it encourages us to be smart during these tough times, but it kinda needs improvement... So, basically I’ve been doing Math here, since almost 3 years, and I LOVE it. But this place needs to be fixed too, IG.. So one piece of improvement that needs to be made is that basically the questions in an exercise are what mostly Sal and others teach from the vids, but there are also some “awkward” questions that haven’t been taught in the video.. Can you please fix this? :/ Also, another piece of improvement that needs to be made is that if we get even a question wrong in an exercise but if we’re really looking forward to succeed, we can’t sadly redo the exercise.. Can you please add an option when we’re able to redo? That’s why I’m mainly stressing out in. Or else, I just luv this and I would strongly recommend it. Tysm for reading this and reviewing this amazing place of education from the US! Also, to EVERYONE reading this, stay safe and we’ll get through these difficult times! <3

by MiiaForeverReveiw13

Okay KhanAcademy is beyond amazing and helpful! I been using this program since I was eight years old to now. I’m certainly fourteen and this program is best to use when I’m having trouble. I’ve made an account about a year ago because I did not have a official yet. I been using it for a short period because I only used it when given an assignment or when my teachers weren’t making any sense. Point is when I found out there was an app I was very excited because now I get to use it to my advantage. Since the Corona virus is spreading it has been putting my school on a stay home. My teachers have to relay on me doing the school work at home having to learn, study, and prepare for my Exams at home. And having to catch up by myself and not getting behind online and dealing with what’s going on right now is going to be stressful. But knowing I have KhanAcademy will save lots of time thank you plan on using this until I’m in college!

by Hunt.tr04

I find this interface to be full of lots of glitches, and the interface self is a pain. It may take you 10 seconds to solve a problem, but a minute jut to be able to type it into the box. And it’s not like it’s a small screen. I use tons of other apps with iPad compatibility that’s flawless. I thought the message was to make life easier, and give anybody the opportunity to learn. But with an app like this, I’d rather carry around the textbook. Also what’s the point of mastery challenges or points, if you can’t access it with KhanAcademy itself. And on a final note, I would like it if KhanAcademy wasn’t so glitchy, the pages constantly quitting, going crazy and just being so slow. If you are a teacher, please spare your students, practice problems and videos are fine but please, do not replace the textbook. After a year of using khan rather than a textbook and old-fashioned practice worksheets, I came in knowing more about pre-algebra than after, and it’s not like I’m not trying. It’s just so hard keeping up with it and teaching yourself

by Ana Bananie

Khan Academy is a superb learning resource, whether you’re a young person still in school, a young adult in college, or just someone who’s looking to brush up on specific subjects. I enjoy using it, however, there are some things that can be added, taken away, and improved upon:

1) Add the ability to view unit and subject progression within KhanAcademy . This option is available on the web version of KA, and it really motivates me to complete lessons! However, I cannot view my progress within the iOS app, which represses my excitement and causes me to not use it as often, which is unfortunate.

2) Allow the user to make all videos watched if we’ve reached 100% on units! While the videos are helpful when I’m confused about a specific topic, most of the time, I already understand the concepts explained in the video, so sitting through a drawn out video stifles the momentum I build.

3) Sometimes when I finish a unit, I do forget some of the information given, so it’d be nice to be reminded to review important concepts when KA recognizes I haven’t taken the initiative to review on my own.

Besides that, I really enjoy using Khan Academy as a whole, and with the changes I suggested, I believe it could become an even better and more intuitive learning resource.

by TomJadeLance

Khan Academy is great. Truly amazing app. All my subjects were synced, everything was exactly like on the website. The only thing that was really bad is the drawing features, the ones on the problems that help you solve the problem on the problem itself. The first line drawn is smooth and nice, but after that there is extreme lag, and the lines are all choppy and impossible to write numbers with. It takes about 10 seconds to write a single number if I want it to be legible. (I am using the Apple Pencil) In the drawing mode, it also takes away the problem. If there was a diagram there that I wanted to mark up in order to help me with the problem, it disappears. This is a pretty big thing for me, especially if Khan Academy doesn’t work with split screen. I cannot work on KhanAcademy itself, a big bummer.
Besides that, it is Khan Academy. Tons of great courses with great teaching and a great experience.

by Jodyjar

I was really excited when I realized I could do the Khan Academy math exercises on my iPhone. I am trying to get caught up in math so I can take college calculus. And for a day, it worked great. But now, KhanAcademy is showing all the numbers doubled and sometimes overlapping, and I keep getting answers wrong because I can't see them properly. I tried restarting KhanAcademy , but that didn't help. And there is no place to report the problem. Help!!!

Update: the number doubling problem wasn't resolved by uninstalling and reinstalling KhanAcademy . I'm working through this with support, and meanwhile just using the website. However, I also can't see anymore what I've already completed versus what I need to work on, without clicking on every topic to find out. Super frustrating!

by MonaMC

Love the concept of KhanAcademy. Khan Academy is awesome. However, the Unit Test questions in Computer Science sections are impossible to read without constant “pinching” the screen to zoom out or in. It will not scroll down at first and when it does after multiple attempts, the same issue is experienced when you try to scroll up. For example, you read a question/problem in the test and you cannot see the answers. So you pinch/zoom and see answers but it is cumbersome to get back to the question again. It takes too much time. Sometimes I have to zoom out completely by holding the screen “pinch” and squint to see the text.

I urge developers to use this part of KhanAcademy on their own phones (I use an iPhone 10) to really understand my perspective.

Thanks!

by Mustafa3170

I had an issue with the back button in KhanAcademy but you guys quickly worked to fix it! Thank you Khan Academy! I’ve changed the 4 star rating to a 5 star now. :) But please consider the following things mentioned below:
2) Allow users to download videos in high quality if they want to. I have enough storage and when I download Khan Academy videos, they’re always in very low quality, both audio and video. Give users the option to choose whether they want to save data and download in low quality, or if they can, download in high quality for offline use.
3) We can download videos to make them available for offline usage, but not articles. Why is that?
Overall Khan Academy is a great tool to gain knowledge and it’s proven to be very helpful for a lot of people including myself.

by Jazzafan:D

First of all, Khan Academy is a great app for learning. This is what makes me give it five stars. I appreciate that I don’t have to pay and have a plethora of interesting things to learn about. This is also really cool for maybe second-world countries, for people that can afford a cheap-ish device but not an education.

The new update removed the feature where you would have to ace every test, including the unit test, perfectly in order to get to Level 5 and be done with that unit. It was hard to get 100 percent sometimes, but it really pushed me to learn and do my best. Now, there is no level feature and it makes me feel like it’s a little harder to navigate what you need to work on. I still appreciate the videos and exercises, but i thought the level feature was the cherry on top. Bring it back?

by Racheal T.

KhanAcademy is amazing! It helps me a lot and I definitely improved in every subject! Khan Academy is my #1 absolute favorite learning app! This learning app has many subjects such as: Math, science, etc. That’s not the only good thing! KhanAcademy is very organized! They have: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd grade, all the way up to 8th grade! After clicking what grade you’re in, you can choose what you want to learn! Ratios, Algebra, etc. Once you’ve click what you want to learn, they have videos and practices for you after learning it, they give you a quiz! Just like what REAL teachers do! What makes this game more fun is that they give you energy points whenever you get things correct! You also earn badges! I am in LOVE with this game! Thanks a lot for the help! 😊