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Set AI access before first assignments reach students

You’re the product manager. Your team is in the room. Printed Oct 18, 2026.

The district needs classroom practice to start while student AI access remains prohibited.

Teachers need a dependable first assignment, while privacy reviewers need proof that Khanmigo cannot appear for students.

Who you’d be doing this for

“My first lesson is next week, and I need to know whether the help button will show up.”

Habimana Gathogo · Middle School Math Teacher

She is preparing teacher-assigned practice for newly rostered students in a district that has restricted student AI tools.

What is at stake

Practice must start next week without any confirmed student access to Khanmigo. You have to weigh a usable teacher launch against an access decision that will be hard to unwind.

Why it isn’t already fixed

Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.

  • first-day practice vs. prohibited AI access
  • district-wide simplicity vs. granular control
  • teacher confidence vs. privacy proof
  • launch speed vs. reversible learning

Why Khan Academy

Khan Academy for Districts must let schools use free practice while honoring district choices about Khanmigo.

Written with these in mind

education product strategisttrust-centered product managerdistrict implementation product leader

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Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.