AI is everywhere these days, offering lots of promises along with a bevy of questions and anxieties.
However, until this month, AI tools were not really accessible inside of Canvas.
Now thanks to a partnership with Khan Academy, Khanmigo (Khan Academy’s generative AI tool) is available for teachers to use right inside of Canvas. These tools are currently only available to teachers but will help with things like chunking text and generating question prompts.
We are excited about this integration and will be taking you on tours of the different ways Khanmigo can help over the next couple of weeks through a special series of Tool Bits for Khanmigo that will highlight a different feature each post and help guide you through how to get AI working for you.
Before we get started though, we want to make sure you know how to access Khanmigo in Canvas.
Get Signed Up with Khanmigo
To get started you will need to wander over to Khanmigo’s site and create a free teacher account.
Click Sign Up for Free and then choose Sign-Up with email. This will prompt you for an email address and you should use your school district email and then create a password that you will remember (it won’t sync with your school district password, so set as something you will remember.)
There will be some confirmation through email and then you should be good to go.
Drop It in Your Navigation
Next you should wander over to Canvas and pick a course (any course will do but preferably one you are currently using.) Then smash the settings button from the course nav and once you are in settings choose Navigation. You will now find Khanmigo Teacher Tools sitting in the hidden navigation options. Click the three dots on it to enable it and add it to your active navigation. Click save and head back to home.
Once on home you can click on the Khanmigo Teacher Tools in your course navigation. This will open up the Khanmigo suite of tools inside your canvas page but…first you will be prompted to sign in to Khanmigo. So use your ISD email and that fresh password you just created to activate the Khanmigo account inside of Canvas.
Once that is all done you will see a tile of specialized GPTs that promise to do things like chunk text and write letters of reference.
Let AI Cook
Once you are all set up, it’s time to give it a try. I suggest picking the tool that is most interesting to you and seeing what happens. In general these different tools will ask you for some basic information related to the task and topic you are working on and may give you put in text from or upload a document. The GPT will then do its work and give you an output that is editable and that can be exported via Word and PDFs.
For this testing and learning, it is a good idea to use a resource or topic you are intimately familiar with since it will allow you to best judge the efficacy of Khanmigo’s efforts. One other thing we are encouraging with all AI tools is to remember to keep the human at the center and know that the best results will come from an interaction in which you apply your expertise, experience and perspectives on the final product (e.g.- making adjustments, modifications and fact-checking whatever Khanmigo spits out.)