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 February, including chemistry and U.S. history for high school, sharing reports on IXL family accounts with educators, more frequent score updates in the LevelUp™ Diagnostic, and more! To stay current with our latest updates, follow IXL on Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.
Table of contents:
- Major releases
- Feature updates
- More frequent score updates in the LevelUp™ Diagnostic
- Up-to-date score indicators for LevelUp Diagnostic Overview
- LevelUp standards report for AL and MN
- Skill search in Common Assessments and Quiz Resources
- Sharing Scratchpad work on iPad
- Grade Passback for Schoology and Canvas LMS
- New language support: Irish, Tigrinya, and Welsh
- Skill plan updates and new skills
- Additional releases
Major releases
High school chemistry and U.S. history
We’ve added two new courses to our high school curriculum: Chemistry and U.S. history! These courses join our other high school science and social studies offerings, biology and civics & government.
IXL Chemistry skills cover the structure and properties of matter, physical and chemical reactions, stoichiometry, energy changes, and the fundamentals of scientific inquiry. Try out one of the new skills.
IXL U.S. History skills focus on America’s colonial history and revolution, the early republic, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, the Great Depression, World Wars I and II, and the Cold War to the present. Explore one of the new skills.
These skills are fully aligned to all 50 state standards, including NGSS for science. Chemistry has standards skill plans for all 50 states, while U.S. history has standards skill plans for 15 states, with more on the way.
IXL Progress Share
Now it’s easier than ever for families to share their children’s progress reports with educators they trust! Progress Share is a new way for teacher accounts on IXL to connect with family accounts and access IXL Analytics reports for students who aren’t on their rosters. This is especially useful for families working with tutors (particularly IXL-certified Wyzant tutors) who have their own IXL teacher accounts.
Once they’ve connected to a student with Progress Share, educators will be able to:
- Identify learning gaps and areas needing improvement
- Track progress in real time through key reports (such as Usage, Trouble Spots, and Scores)
- Plan more personalized lessons based on data-driven insights
- Collaborate more effectively with families to support their children’s success
Feature updates
More frequent score updates in the LevelUp™ Diagnostic
Real-Time mode of the LevelUp Diagnostic provides students with more frequent updates to their scores and recommendations. Previously, students needed to answer about 40 questions before receiving an updated score in Real-Time mode. Now, students who have received a LevelUp score within the past six weeks (from either Real-Time mode or Benchmark mode) will receive updated scores every ten questions. They’ll also receive a message telling them when their scores are updated.
Showing students their updated scores more often will motivate them to use the LevelUp Diagnostic more consistently and take pride in their learning gains. It will also give teachers more frequent insights to support daily instruction.
For students who go six weeks without a score update, the number of questions required to receive an updated score will gradually increase. First it will require 15 questions, then 20, before requiring a full 40-question reassessment after 60 days.
Up-to-date score indicators on the LevelUp Diagnostic Overview report
The LevelUp Diagnostic Overview report now shows a starburst icon next to the names of students with scores from the last 30 days. This indicates their scores have been recently pinpointed. Teachers can use this icon to quickly identify which students have up-to-date LevelUp Math Assessment scores.
After 30 days the starburst icon will disappear, indicating it’s a good time to encourage those students to answer questions in Real-Time mode of the LevelUp Diagnostic again. Students who do not have a pinpointed score from the last 60 days will be grouped in a separate section at the bottom of the report.
IXL LevelUp Assessment Standards Performance reports for Alabama and Minnesota
Teachers in Alabama and Minnesota now have custom-built standards reports for Benchmark mode of the LevelUp Diagnostic aligned to their state standards! With this release, the LevelUp Assessment Standards Performance report is available in 47 states.
With the standards report, teachers can track their students’ knowledge of state standards based on their scores from the LevelUp Diagnostic’s math benchmark.
Stay tuned as we continue to release additional state standards reports in the coming months.
Searching for skills when creating Common Assessments and Quiz Library Resources
When creating Common Assessments and Quiz Library Resources, administrators can now search for skills they’d like to include in their assessments. Administrators with a particular skill in mind can skip navigating menus and get right to the skills they’re looking for, helping them build assessments faster.
Admins can search by both skill names and skill IDs. If the administrator has selected a skill plan, grade, category, or Takeoff lesson plan for their assessment already, the search results will show skills from those groups first.
Students can share Scratchpad work with teachers on the IXL iPad app
IXL’s built-in Scratchpad lets students work through problems by writing on their screen. When working on a math skill or IXL Quiz in the IXL iPad app, students can now share their Scratchpad with their teachers.
After students submit their answer, a screenshot of the question and their Scratchpad work will be included in the Questions Log (for skill practice) or the Quiz Results report (for quizzes). Teachers can use students’ Scratchpad work to check for understanding, even when their students have been working independently.
Grade Passback for Schoology and Canvas LMS
Schools using Schoology or Canvas now have the power to use grade passback for IXL assignments within those Learning Management Systems (LMS)! This simplifies the grading process, enabling teachers to grade IXL skills and quizzes directly in their platform of choice.
Skills will be graded based on whether students hit SmartScore goals set by administrators, and quiz scores are synced directly. As always, teachers can make grading adjustments before publishing each student’s grade into their LMS gradebook.
New language support: Irish, Tigrinya, and Welsh
IXL provides comprehensive language support for 80+ languages, enabling all students to make progress in essential skills, even if they are still building their English language abilities.
We recently added support for additional languages:
- Irish: A Celtic language native to the island of Ireland.
- Tigrinya: An Ethio-Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
- Welsh: A Celtic language native to Wales.
To turn on language support for learners, go to your Profile & Settings page and “Enable translation support” for select students.
Skill plan updates and new skills
New math skills
We’ve released new math skills from kindergarten to calculus! New skills include:
Elementary school:
- Write the number you hear – up to 20 (Kindergarten)
- Write the number you hear – up to 100 (Kindergarten)
- In front of and behind (Kindergarten)
- Count forward by tens – up to 120 (Grade 1)
- Compare numbers up to 100 using symbols – with models (Grade 1)
- Match analog clocks and times with words: to the half hour (Grade 1)
- Use a hundred chart to add tens or ones – without regrouping (Grade 1)
- Rectangles with the same perimeter or area (Grade 3)
- Use equations to solve multi-step division word problems (Grade 4)
Middle school:
High school:
- Fundamental Theory of Calculus, Part 2 (Calculus)
New ELA skills
We’ve added two new decodable text skills, one each for kindergarten and grade 1, focused on the short “o” pattern. Read short o stories uses engaging stories, paired with delightful illustrations, to help build foundational reading skills.
New science skills
We’ve released a few new Biology skills:
- Evaluation anatomical and molecular evidence of evolution: In this skill, students compare anatomical or molecular structures between species to make and support claims about their evolutionary relationships.
- Carbon cycle: biosphere processes and interactions: In this skill, students explore several key processes that involve the movement of carbon into, from, or within the biosphere, including photosynthesis, consumption, cellular respiration, and decomposition.
- Introduction to the genetic code: In this skill, students learn about the role of DNA as the inheritable genetic material of cells.
New social studies skills
We’ve released a new social studies skill for grades 7 and 8, The War of 1812. This skill introduces students to the causes of the war, its major battles, and the effects it had on the early United States.
New textbook skill plans
We’ve released skill plans for the following textbooks:
Math:
- Bluebonnet Learning Math (Texas) (Grades 1, 6 and Algebra 1)
- Experience Math (Grades 1, 2, and 6)
- Georgia Mathematics Instructional Resources (Advanced Algebra)
ELA:
- UFLI (Foundations)
- Being a Writer (Grades K and 1)
- Fundations: Wilson Language Basics (Level 3)
- myPerspectives (2025) (Grades 6-8)
New standards skill plans
We’ve released skill plans for the following standards:
- Nevada 2023 Pre-K Standards (ELA)
- Colorado Extended Evidence Outcomes (EEO) (Grades PK-8, Math)
- Nova Scotia Curriculum (Grades P-8, Science)
- Saskatchewan Curriculum Outcomes (Grades K-8, Science)
- New Brunswick Curriculum (Grades 3-8, Science)
New test prep skill plans
We’ve released skill plans for the following assessments:
- ASVAB (Math and reading)
- DC Comprehensive Assessments of Progress in Education (CAPE) (Grades 3-Algebra 2 for math, grades 3-10 for ELA, grades 5, 8, and Biology for science)
- Indiana ILEARN Checkpoints StudyWise plans (Personalized study plans for math and ELA grades 3-8)
- Mississippi MAAP (Biology)
- Nevada State Assessments (Grades 3-8 for math and ELA)
- North Carolina EOC test (Biology)
- Oklahoma OSTP (Grades 3-8 for math and ELA, and grades 5 and 8 for science)
- Texas STAAR (Grades 5-8 for science, updated for new standards)
- Utah RISE (Grades 3-8 for math and ELA, Secondary Math I, and grades 4-8)
- Virginia SOL Assessment (Grades 3-Algebra 2 for math, and grades 3-10 for ELA, updated for new standards)
Spring Spotlight skill plans for math and ELA
Our Spring Spotlight skill plans are back!
Perfect for end-of-year review and spring test prep, each plan provides 20 days of math and ELA skill recommendations reviewing the most critical topics for grades K-12.
Additional releases
Spark Studio interactive Jeopardy game board
IXL’s latest product, Spark Studio, is an AI-powered suite of tools for teachers to help support their daily tasks. One of Spark Studio’s most popular tools, the Jeopardy review game, just got a big upgrade. Now instead of just generating a Jeopardy-style board of questions, teachers can select the new “Launch game” button to open a fully interactive, ready-to-play game in a new tab!
Once a game board is created it’s accessible via a shareable link, making it easy for teachers to send to students and colleagues. This update will save teachers time and streamline the process of creating engaging review games.
New math and ELA video tutorials
We’ve released 107 new math videos! These videos cover topics such as:
- Choosing the number you hear (Kindergarten)
- Color patterns (Kindergarten)
- Properties of definite integrals (Calculus)
Additionally, we’ve added Spanish subtitles to 172 more math videos. Like translated skills, translated subtitles are available to users with Spanish support enabled.
We’ve also released 9 new ELA videos in Kindergarten through Grade 5! The videos in this release cover topics such as:
- Reading short u stories (Grade 1)
- Capitalization review (Grade 3)
- Identifying complete sentences and fragments (Grade 4)
For IXL Canada, we’ve added math video tutorials for grade 12, meaning we now have math videos in Canada from Jr. K to 12!
Expanded Spanish support for Takeoff by IXL
We’ve released Spanish translation support for 15 additional Takeoff units!
- Grade 3 – Units 11-13
- Grade 4 – Units 9-14
- Grade 5 – Units 9-14
These units now have Spanish translations available for the student workbook PDFs, independent practice PDFs, mid-unit check-in, and unit test.
New math skills for Canada, the UK, and Australia
We have released new math skills for our Canadian, Australian, and UK editions!
In UK Year 2, students can now practice using number charts to help them add two-digit numbers. In Australia Year 3, students can now practice using equal groups to help solve multiplication word problems. Finally, in all three editions, students can now practice identifying the shape of everyday objects.
New science skills for Canada, the UK, and Australia
We have released several new science skills for our Canadian, Australian, and UK editions!
- Identify plants and animals (CA Grades K-1)
- Compare plants and animals (CA Grade 1)
- Evaluate multiple design solutions to prevent erosion (AU Years 3-4, UK Years 3-5)
- Conductors and insulators (CA Grades 5-6)
- Identify planets in the solar system (CA Grades 5-6)
- Effects of ultraviolet waves (AU Years 7-8, UK Years 7-9)
- Structure of the universe (UK Years 7-9)
New math IB skill plans for the UK
In the UK edition, we’ve released math skill plans for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme and Diploma Programme. These skill plans support planning, teaching, and learning aligned to IB’s curriculum frameworks across the following courses:
- Middle Years Programme: MYP Years 1-5 standard and extended, which are equivalent to UK Years 7-11.
- Diploma Programme: Applications and Interpretation (Standard Level and High Level) and Analysis and Approaches (Standard Level and High Level), which are equivalent to UK Years 12-13.