Khan Academy offers a host of courses you can take for professional development hours, including the Human Resources (HR) recommended Financial Literacy course. You must successfully reach a 100% mastery level on the Financial Literacy course before 12/20/24 to be eligible to receive the one-time reward.
Read through the tabs to discover how to sign up and take the course, and then submit the external training to StarU Online for credit.
Khan Academy: Signing Up and Taking the Course
Follow the instructions below to sign up for the Khan Academy and take your Financial Literacy course.
- Navigate to Khan Academy.
- If you do not have an account, click Sign up.
- If you already have a Khan Academy account, click Log in to be directed to your Learner Home.
- Click Add another course and skip to step 6.
- On the Sign up screen, do the following
- Leave Learner selected.
- Enter your date of birth.
- Select Sign up with Email.

- Read and navigate through the 4 introductory pop-ups.
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Note: The introductory pop-ups may occur at other times during the sign up process.

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Note: The introductory pop-ups may occur at other times during the sign up process.
- On Step 1 of the Personalize Khan Academy pop-up, select Adult Learner and click Continue.

- On Step 2, scroll down to the Life skills section and select Financial Literacy.
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Note: You may optionally select additional courses of interest for your own personal development.

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Note: You may optionally select additional courses of interest for your own personal development.
- Click Continue with 1 course.
- To begin your training, click Start beside Welcome to Financial Literacy.

- Navigate through each lesson and unit, completing each quiz and test until you receive Mastered on each skill, with Course mastery at 100%.

- To see the Course Mastery level, navigate to your Learner Home screen.
- Click See All next to the course title.

- Once you've received 100% course mastery, take a screenshot of the entire Course screen, ensuring both your Khan Academy screen name and course mastery are captured.
- Save this screenshot to an easily-accessible location on your computer.
- When you are ready to submit your external training, move on to the steps in the next tab.
StarU Online: Submitting for Credit
Use the following steps to submit your certification for completing the Khan Academy: Financial Literacy.
- Navigate to StarU Online.
- Click on Submit External Training.

- Fill out the following fields exactly as shown below or you'll risk not receiving appropriate credit:
- Title: Financial Literacy
- Institution: Khan Academy
- Training Dates: The dates you began and finished the course
- Training Hours: 2 hours
- Add the screenshot to the Attachments section.
- Click Submit.
- On your transcript, find the Financial Literacy external training and click Mark Complete.
- HR will receive a report of Financial Literacy completions once a week. Associates will find the one-time $100 incentive on their second paycheck of the following month.