What people complain about in Khan Academy
7 reported problems name Khan Academy as what the person is currently using. Below is what they said was missing, and what they resorted to instead.
- Complaints
- 7
- Avg severity
- 3.0/5
- Would pay to fix
- 0
- Industries
- 2
What they wish it did
Capabilities people described needing that Khan Academy does not give them, taken from the highest-scoring problems first. These are individual accounts written in each person’s own terms, so two entries may describe the same underlying gap in different words.
- A tool that enables in-class supervised practice and automated grading of handwritten or oral work
- A system to create personalized assignments that AI cannot easily solve
- Adaptive grammar learning platform that differentiates instruction for mixed-ability classes
- A tool to generate stable direct links to specific Khan Academy resources
- A tool to reorder or customize lesson content sequence
- Spaced repetition review system that automatically reinforces past lessons
- Auto-generated curriculum-aligned activities from teacher input
- Trade-specific math learning app with contextual plumbing problems
- AI-driven personalized learning tool for at-home education
What they do instead
The manual processes people built around the gap. A long workaround list is the strongest evidence a problem is real: someone is already paying for it in time. Where several people described the same workaround, it is marked.
- Inverting class: record lessons for home, do homework in class with technology away
- Considering using Khan Academy to assign grammar units and making completion mandatory
- Hitting Share for an article and providing the link, but it works for some students and not others
- Trying to click through Lessons to manually navigate to articles because the question set starts first
- builds curricula over entire weekends
- students forget everything by Monday morning
- uses generic high school math resources on Khan Academy
Industries
The problems themselves
Highest opportunity score first.
Students are using AI tools like ChatGPT to complete homework, making it impossible for teachers to assess actual learning.
4HighEducationCheating DetectionAuthentic Assessment PlatformTeacher needs to teach grammar to a diverse 9th grade class with widely varying skill levels without losing engagement or leaving advanced students behind.
3MediumEducationDifferentiated Instruction & AssessmentGrammarPath AdaptiveTeacher struggles to navigate the updated Khan Academy interface and assign specific resources to students, causing confusion in class.
3MediumEducationUser ExperienceEduAssign ProTeachers need a tool that helps students retain learning without requiring teachers to build every lesson from scratch.
4HighEducationCurriculum ManagementRetainFlowA plumbing apprentice needs to learn job-specific math (fractions, decimals, percentages, geometry) but finds generic high school math resources too broad and inefficient.
3MediumPlumbingSkill DevelopmentPipeMath ProA parent is looking for AI-supplemented tools to continue educational development at home, but the recommendation suggests non-AI solutions.
2MildEducationCurriculum ManagementLearnAI Home TutorHigh school English teacher needs effective SAT/PSAT prep tools for group instruction to compensate for school's lack of test preparation.
2MildEducationCurriculum ManagementClassPrep Pro
Read this fairly
These are complaints, and only complaints — nobody posts to say their software worked. A high count mostly reflects how many people use Khan Academy at all, so this page is not a quality judgement and should not be read as one. What it is good for is the shape of the gaps: the specific jobs people could not get done, which are the same whether the tool is popular or not.