At IXL, we never stop adding new features and skills to our award-winning teaching and learning platform, so you can always trust we’re on pace with students’ evolving needs. That’s why we compile a list of our top new features to help you—as a learner, educator, or parent—get the most out of IXL.
Keep reading below for a roundup of releases from the past month, including skill plans for the PreACT, video tutorials for Precalculus, new Takeoff by IXL Math™ units, and more! To stay current with our latest updates, follow IXL on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
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Major releases
New units for Takeoff by IXL Math™
We’ve released Takeoff by IXL Math™ Units 6 and 7!
Takeoff by IXL Math™ provides everything 2nd-5th grade teachers need for their daily math instruction, personalized to meet the needs of each student, including:
- Detailed day-by-day lesson plans
- Differentiated support and enrichment resources
- Print and online learning activities
- Built-in unit assessments with personalized next steps
Unit 6 covers the following topic:
Unit 7 covers the following topics:
New PreACT skill plans and personalized study plans
IXL now has skill plans and personalized study plans for the PreACT! These plans support the PreACT assessments in math, English, and reading including the PreACT 8/9 and PreACT Secure. Just like with IXL’s existing ACT plans, students can enter their scores or subscores to generate a personalized study plan that directs learners to the exact IXL skills they should work on next. Check out the skill plans:
Video tutorials for Precalculus
Video tutorials are now available for Precalculus! This initial release features over 130 videos covering half of the skills in Precalculus, including most of the Common Core aligned skills. Check out some of the videos:
We’ll be adding videos for the remaining Precalculus skills in the coming weeks.
Feature updates
Ability to share quizzes across the district
Teachers can now share copies of IXL Quizzes with teachers from other schools in their district! This update gives teachers more ways to collaborate with colleagues in their school district to customize learning on IXL.
Similar to sharing quizzes within their school, teachers simply click the “Share with teachers” button under the “…” menu and click the “Show teachers from other schools” button to see a list of teachers in their district. Teachers can review the other teachers they’ve selected before sharing their quiz. Any completed, drafted, or active quizzes can be shared with teachers of the same subject who share a site license.
Hide games for subsets of students
Teachers can now choose to hide IXL games for subsets of students, whether it be their entire roster, class, or individual students! This update allows teachers to have more granular control over game access, and allows them to create a more personalized learning experience for students. This affects teacher accounts in the US, CA, UK, and AU editions on the IXL website only.
Demographic groupings for District practice reports
District administrators can now “group by” any rostered demographic categories in the district-level Skill Usage and Skill Proficiency reports. This feature mirrors the grouping that was recently introduced in the district Diagnostic reports, allowing admins to specify multiple grouping categories at once. This update gives district administrators the ability to dive deeper into student data and uncover a more detailed picture of students’ practice.
Lock MAP study plans for students
Students are now prevented from editing or deleting personalized MAP study plans that were created by their teacher or batch uploaded by the IXL support team. Students will still be able to make changes to study plans they created. However, once a teacher or our support team edits a student-created plan, students will no longer be able to make changes.
Note: Study plans created before May 4, 2022 will not be locked due to technical constraints.
Skill plan updates and new skills
New math skills
We’ve released new math skills for 2nd and 7th grade:
- Addition sentences for even and odd numbers (Grade 2)
- Solve word problems using repeated addition – sums to 25 (Grade 2)
- Make inferences from multiple samples (Grade 7)
New science skills
We’ve released a new science skills:
- Introduction to transverse waves (Grades 6-8)
- Compare plants and animals (Kindergarten-Grade 1)
New Learn to Read skill plan
We’ve expanded our popular Learn to Read skill plans to now include Grade 3! Our Learn to Read skill plans seamlessly guide Pre-K through Grade 3 students through a thoughtfully designed scope and sequence of IXL skills that cultivates essential reading foundations.
The Grade 3 plan delves into more advanced phonics, word study, vocabulary, and comprehension skills, providing a comprehensive progression. Check out the skill plan:
- Learn to Read (Grade 3)
New textbook skill plans
We’ve released new textbook skill plans, including:
- Jump Math Canada (Grades K-8)
- Schoolwide Reading Fundamentals & Writing and Grammar Fundamentals (Grades 3-6)
- Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) 2017 (Kindergarten and Grades 3 and 5)
- Engage NY ELA (Grade 9-10)
- Amplify ELA (Grades 6-7)
- Wilson’s Fundations (Grade 1)
- STEMscopes Science Texas (Grades 6-7)
- Benchmark Advance 2022 (Grades K-6)
New standards skill plans
We’ve released the following standards skill plans:
- Virginia Mathematics Standards of Learning (2023) (Kindergarten-Grade 12)
- Colorado Academic Standards with Extended Evidence Outcomes (ELA, Kindergarten-Grade 3)
New test prep skill plans
We’ve released skill plans for the end-of-grade assessments for Kansas and Virginia! These plans are designed to be short and targeted, for use in the weeks leading up to the state assessment.
- Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Math (Grades 3-8 and Grade 10)
- Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Language arts (Grades 3-8 and Grade 10)
- Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Science (Grades 5-8)
- Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) Assessments Math (Grades 3-8 and High School)
- Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) Assessments Language arts (Grades 3-8 and High School)
- Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) Assessments Science (Grades 5 and 8)
We’ve also released skill plans and personalized study plans for the PreACT, including PreACT 8/9 and PreACT Secure.
Additional releases
New math and ELA videos
We’ve released 212 new math videos to expand our coverage! This includes 26 new Grade 2 videos, 33 new Algebra 2 videos, 17 new videos for Grade 3 through Geometry, and videos for over 50% of Precalculus skills. The videos in this release cover topics such as:
- Two-step addition and subtraction word problems (Grade 2)
- Addition with three-digit numbers (Grade 2)
- Descartes’ Rule of Signs (Algebra 2)
- Finding roots using a calculator (Algebra 2)
- Dividing polynomials using long division (Precalculus)
- Distributions of sample means (Precalculus)
We’ve also released 12 new phonics videos and 2 new middle school ELA to expand coverage in existing grades. The videos in this release cover topics such as:
- Completing the sentence with a two-syllable word (Grade 2)
- Spell the soft g or soft c word (Grade 2)
- Evaluating newspaper headlines for bias (Grade 6)
We’ve also released 11 new videos for Canada grades 6-8.
Plus, Spanish captions have been added to over 50% of grade 4 math videos as well as 49 more videos in grades 5 through Algebra 1. See an example below:
- Count lines of symmetry (Grade 4)
With this release, we now have over 2,800 videos on IXL.com!
More math skills with Spanish support
We’ve expanded our Spanish-language support to include a handful of new skills in middle school and high school. These newly supported skills include skills on dividing fractions using models, choosing appropriate measures of center and spread, and deriving the equation of a circle. They also include a checkpoint skill on geometric modeling and design.