khan-academy

name	khan-academy
description	Khan Academy — retrieve student skill mastery, exercise progress, and course completion data to personalize tutoring and avoid re-teaching mastered content.
metadata	{"openclaw":{"requires":{"env":["KHAN_ACADEMY_CLIENT_ID","KHAN_ACADEMY_CLIENT_SECRET","KHAN_ACADEMY_REDIRECT_URI"]}},"primaryEnv":"KHAN_ACADEMY_CLIENT_ID"}

Khan Academy

What it is

Khan Academy is a free, widely used instructional platform providing video lessons, practice exercises, and mastery-based learning pathways for K-12 students in math, science, ELA, computing, and more. Its progress API allows agents to read a student's mastered skills, in-progress exercises, and time-on-task data to personalize tutoring sessions.

When to use this skill

• Checking which skills a student has already mastered before selecting practice problems
• Identifying in-progress or struggling exercises to target during a tutoring session
• Recommending the next skill in a learning pathway based on the student's current mastery level
• Supplementing a tutoring session with a direct link to the relevant Khan Academy video or exercise
• Reviewing course mastery percentage to inform parent or teacher progress updates

Credentials

This skill authenticates using env vars declared in the frontmatter metadata and provided via ~/.openclaw/.env (see .env.example at the segment root). Required variables:

• KHAN_ACADEMY_CLIENT_ID - OAuth2 client ID from the Khan Academy developer console
• KHAN_ACADEMY_CLIENT_SECRET - OAuth2 client secret
• KHAN_ACADEMY_REDIRECT_URI - registered redirect URI for the OAuth2 authorization flow

Key operations

• GET /api/v1/user — retrieve the authenticated student's profile and overall mastery summary
• GET /api/v1/user/exercises — list all exercises with mastery status (mastered/proficient/practiced/not started)
• GET /api/v1/user/topic_exercises — fetch exercise progress grouped by topic and grade band
• GET /api/v1/exercises/{exercise_name} — look up a specific exercise's description, related skills, and video links
• GET /api/v1/topic/{topic_slug}/exercises — enumerate all exercises within a topic for pathway planning

Notes

• The Khan Academy API uses OAuth2 per-user authorization; each student must grant consent before their progress data can be read.
• API access is limited to approved educational integrations; register the application at khanacademy.org/api/auth2.
• Mastery levels update after exercise completion; there may be a short delay before the API reflects the latest session activity.
• Do not expose a student's exercise history to other students; scope all progress reads to the currently authenticated learner.