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How it works

Three decisions from you.
The rest runs itself.

Pick an experience, choose how it reaches students, and invite your teachers. KANU runs the term and hands you the record.

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Today

A student asks about a work-based learning credential. You hunt for an employer, draft a training plan, chase four signatures, track hours in a spreadsheet, and type it all into the state system at year end.

With KANU

You make three decisions. KANU runs the term, brings the industry professional, and hands you the record to review and submit.

One term, start to finish

What you do, and what KANU does for you.

  1. 1You

    Pick an experience

    Browse the library by pathway. Every experience shows its hours, its work-based learning type and its occupation code.

    Meets: Aligned to the pathway

    An educator at a desk browsing the KANU experience library on a laptop, with experiences grouped by pathway.
  2. 2You

    Choose how it reaches students

    Build it into a course, assign it to teachers, or open it to individual students, like the one who walks in asking about a work-based learning credential.

    Meets: Built into required coursework

    Illustration of the deployment options screen: built into a course, assigned to teachers, or open to students.
  3. 3You

    Invite your teachers

    Teachers get a link and a short training. You see who is ready before students start.

    Meets: No extra teacher lift

    A teacher alone in a classroom at a student desk, setting up on a laptop that shows a teacher invitation screen.

  4. That is your part. KANU runs the term.

  5. 4KANU

    Students join in seconds

    A code or a link, from any device. Each student’s training plan is drafted and signed digitally.

    Meets: Partnership agreement

    Students in a classroom holding up phones to scan a join code shown on the teacher's wall display.
  6. 5KANU

    Students do real work

    They build a venture and sell to real customers. Hours and progress are recorded as they go.

    Meets: Sustained interaction, authentic work

    A student's hands holding a phone that shows their venture's progress map, with a notebook on the desk.
  7. 6KANU

    A working professional steps in

    At each checkpoint an industry professional reviews the work, then makes the final mastery call.

    Meets: Industry professional, evaluated

    An industry professional at a coffee roastery workbench completing a checkpoint review on a laptop.

  8. And it all comes back to you.

  9. 7You watch

    See everything in one place

    Onboarding, progress, hours and checkpoints across every teacher and student. Open any student’s view.

    Meets: Evidence you can defend

    A school administrator at a desk looking at a dashboard of student progress on a desktop monitor.
  10. 8You submit

    The record is ready

    Training plan, hour log, assessment and your state’s reporting fields, ready to review. Your school submits and makes the final determination.

    Meets: State reporting

    A school staff member at a laptop with printed reports and a pen, reviewing the record before submitting it.

Get your building's mapping

Twenty minutes. We look at your programs of study and send a one-page crosswalk showing which experiences fit where and the hours each produces.

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