What’s new on IXL – September 2025

At Home, In the Classroom, IXL Updates

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 September, including Instant Review, the Fluency Zone & Raceway, previous year results for Common Assessments and Quiz Library resources, and more! To stay current with our latest updates, follow IXL on Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.

Table of contents:

Major releases

Instant Review

Review the exact topics your students need with IXL’s Instant Review! This new classroom engagement tool pulls from students’ shared Trouble Spots—the precise concepts the students are currently stuck on. It instantly transforms these Trouble Spots into an engaging whole-class activity, so teachers can jump straight into meaningful review without needing to identify focus areas on their own.

Instant Review is located in the My IXL tab. To get started, teachers can select the class and subjects they want to focus on, and Instant Review will generate a list of relevant Trouble Spots. Teachers can then guide the class through the selected questions together. Instant Review is available for all subjects in all English-language editions of IXL.

The main menu for Instant Review, with options for which students should be included in the review and the subjects to focus on.

Fluency Zone & Raceway

The U.S. edition of IXL has a new hub to help students build the key skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division! The Fluency Zone offers a complete toolkit for developing fact fluency, serving up a variety of activities including videos, games, worksheets, and skills to support every step of an IXLer’s math fact journey.

It’s also home to the new IXL Raceway, which hosts fast-paced math challenges that get learners to solve as many problems as they can in one minute. For teachers and parents, these challenges help track students’ solving speed, accuracy, and growth over time.

The landing page for the third grade Fluency Zone. It is showing resources for addition - adding within 10, including a Raceway challenge, four games, a list of videos, five worksheets, and four skills.

Feature updates

Previous year results for Common Assessments and Quiz Library

We have updated our administrator reports for Common Assessments and Quiz Library resources to support data for assessments from the previous school year. The Common Assessment Results, Common Assessment Item Analysis, Quiz Resource Results, and Quiz Resource Item Analysis reports now provide a historical record of student performance, allowing administrators to make decisions based on assessments from the previous school year!

Teachers’ IXL Quizzes dashboards, as well as teacher and administrator pages for Quiz Library, now have filters and search bars! This update makes it easier to quickly find and manage custom assessments that educators are looking for.

Teachers can filter their Quizzes via subject and author, and teachers and administrators can filter the Quiz Library by subject. For both pages, educators can search for a quiz by name.

The IXL Quizzes dashboard. Near the top left of the page are two dropdown menus, one to filter by subject and the other to filter by creator. Near the top left of the page is a search bar.

LevelUp ELA Diagnostic standards report for 5 more states

We’ve released IXL LevelUp Diagnostic for ELA standards reports for the following states:

  • Illinois
  • Mississippi
  • Montana
  • New Hampshire
  • Tennessee

Teachers in these states will now be able to track their students’ knowledge of state standards after completing an ELA assessment.

LevelUp Math Diagnostic standards report for California high school standards

We’ve released standards reports for the LevelUp Math Diagnostic for California’s high school math standards. The courses included are Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II and Integrated Math I, II, and III. The report was previously available for Kindergarten through Grade 8. We will continue to release additional states’ high school standards reports in the coming months.

New language support: Fulani (Latin), Georgian, and Tajik

IXL provides comprehensive support for 100+ 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:

  • Fulani (Latin): A Senegambian language spoken primarily in West African countries, written using the Latin alphabet.
  • Georgian: A Kartvelian language native to the country of Georgia.
  • Tajik: A variety of Farsi spoken by ethnic Tajiks in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Georgian also has audio support, joining 70 other languages for which we support audio! With the click of a button, students who speak Georgian can hear text in IXL math, science, and social studies read aloud.

To turn on language support for learners, go to your Profile & Settings page and “Enable translation support” for select students.

Teacher notifications for IXL Badges

Teachers who earn an IXL Badge will now see a celebratory notification in the notifications center! For now, notifications are only sent for earning Exploration badges, with support for Weekly Streak and Milestone badges coming soon.

Updated filters layout on all school and district reports

We’ve improved the visibility and utility of filters for school and district reports! We have increased the number of filters shown when a report initially loads, as well as updated the ordering of the filters to be consistent.

The top of the Skill Proficiency report, showing a large number of filters for subject, date range, grades, teachers, schools, courses, gender, race, and Hispanic ethnicity.

Live School highlights skills practiced from Diagnostic Action Plans and skills suggested by teachers

We’ve updated the Live School report to give admins more information about the skills students are working on! Admins will now see a blue flag icon if students are practicing a skill from their Diagnostic Action Plan, and a star icon if they’re practicing a skill suggested by their teacher. We’re excited to provide administrators more confidence and visibility into their students’ practice.

The Live School report, with tiles showing what students are working on. Some of the students are working on skills that are marked with a star or blue flag.

Skill plan updates and new skills

New NWEA MAP StudyWise plans for Georgia and Minnesota

IXL’s StudyWise tool turns student’s previous test scores into their own personalized study plans. We now offer StudyWise and skill plans for Georgia and Minnesota’s NWEA MAP Growth assessments!

The new plans for Georgia cover the following MAP tests:

  • Math grades K-2, 2-5, 6+, Algebra, Geometry, and Advanced Algebra
  • Reading grades K-2, 2-5, and 6+
  • Language grades 2+
  • Science grades 2-5 and 6-8

For Minnesota, we now offer ELA plans for the latest version of the state’s NWEA MAP Growth assessments for Reading and Language. In total, the plans for Minnesota cover:

  • Math grades K-2, 2-5, and 6+
  • Reading grades K-2, 2-5, and 6+
  • Language grades 2+

New math skills

We’ve released a few new math skills for high school:

  • Graphs of inverse functions (Algebra 2): Students identify the graph of the inverse function of a given function. This builds upon students’ previous understanding of geometric transformations and has them apply it to the algebraic topic of function inverses. Acting as a stepping stone, this key process prepares students to later explore the foundations of important, new inverse functions, like logarithmic and inverse trigonometric functions.
  • Verify solutions to differential equations and Solve higher-order initial value problems (Calculus): Students learn about one of the most powerful applications of Calculus to the real world: differential equations. These fundamental skills help students build understanding of what it means to solve a differential equation, and have them start to find solutions for themselves.

New Spanish language arts skills

We’ve added seven new Spanish language arts skills! A few highlights are:

  • Leer ficción realista con ilustraciones [Read realistic fiction with illustrations] (Grade 3): Students read charming, illustrated stories. As they read, they are asked questions that require them to analyze key details and make inferences.
  • Determinar los temas de cuentos cortos [Determine the themes of short stories] (Grade 5): Students determine the theme of creative and whimsical short stories. The part 2 questions ask students to select the quote in the story that best supports the theme.
  • ¿Qué oración es más formal? [Which sentence is more formal?] (Grade 5): Students are presented with a pair of sentences, and they are asked to choose the sentence that is more formal. The distractor sentences include informality markers such as idioms, conversational language, and abbreviations.

New science skills

We’ve released two new high school chemistry skills:

  • Properties of electromagnetic waves (Chemistry): Students engage with eye-catching diagrams and photographs as they learn about the different forms of electromagnetic radiation. Students analyze the qualitative and quantitative relationships between the wavelength, frequency, speed, and energy of an electromagnetic wave.
  • Identify a limiting reactant and calculate the amount of a product (Chemistry): Students use reactant quantities from a chemical reaction to identify which is the limiting reactant. Students then calculate the amount of a product of the reaction.

New social studies skills

We’ve released four new skills for high school social studies:

  • Government and politics (Civics): Students investigate the basic principles of government, including its purposes, forms, and institutions. Students also analyze the definition of politics, different types of political actors, and political values.
  • Media literacy: credibility (Civics): Students learn how to assess the reliability of a news article, focusing on bias, omissions, credible sources, and corroboration. Students then apply these concepts to a case study by evaluating the reliability of a sample new article.
  • The Revolutionary War: part II (U.S. History): Students learn about events in the Revolutionary War from 1778 to the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Students analyze the perspectives and experiences of women, African American people, and Native American groups.
  • The Civil War: part II (U.S. History): Students investigate the events in the Civil War from 1863 until the war’s conclusion in 1865. Students analyze the experiences of soldiers and political leaders and learn how the war changed U.S. society.

New textbook skill plans

Spanish language arts:

Social studies:

New standards skill plans

We’ve released new standards skill plans for Tennessee Academic Standards (adopted in 2024): Social Studies. The skill plans cover grades K-8, U.S. History, and Government/Civics.

Additional releases

New math, ELA, and SLA video tutorials

Math:

We’ve released 13 new video tutorials for math to expand our coverage! These videos cover topics such as attributes of three-dimensional shapes and finding limits involving absolute value functions.

And we’ve added Spanish subtitles to 80 more math videos. Like translated skills, translated subtitles are available to users with Spanish support enabled.

Language arts:

This release also includes 5 new ELA videos across grades PK through 2! These videos cover topics such as identifying the narrator and reading myths, legends, and fables.

Plus, we’ve released 2 more SLA videos across grades 3 through 5. Check one out here!

For IXL Canada, we’ve released 5 new localized math videos!

Takeoff Florida edition

We’re thrilled to announce the release of our second state-specific version of Takeoff, this time for Florida! It joins our first state-specific version of Takeoff, which was made to support California.

Here’s what sets the Florida version apart:

Built with the Florida B.E.S.T. standards and benchmarks in mind: Takeoff FL was built from the ground up with Florida’s learning expectations in mind. Not only does this edition address all content standards, it also incorporates all of the Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning standards (MTRs). Both standard benchmarks and MTR alignments can be found at the unit and lesson level.

Bilingual vocab glossaries: Specifically for Florida, we’ve also added vocabulary glossaries in English, as well as bilingual versions in Spanish, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Vietnamese, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Tagalog, and Urdu (the most common home languages in Florida). These glossaries include academic vocabulary that students should develop throughout the year or may come across and need to look up. They also include definitions tailored to Florida’s needs. (Did you know that Florida uses a special definition of trapezoid?)

Family letters: We also wrote letters that can be sent home to families describing what their students will be learning in each unit. These can be printed and sent home to help keep parents and guardians informed about their children’s learning. Family letters are available in the most common languages in Florida—English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Portuguese—and can be found on the additional resources tab for each unit.

The Florida edition of Takeoff will start off as opt-in only. Schools and districts that would like to use it can request to switch from the national version. This ensures that educators already using Takeoff can finish the school year without interruption.

New Takeoff slide decks

We recently added a new type of material for Takeoff, Takeoff instructional slides! Teachers can use these instructional slide decks to teach Takeoff lessons alongside provided student materials. We’ve added new instructional slides, meaning our slide decks now cover the following units:

  • Kindergarten Units 1-4
  • Grade 1 Units 1-4
  • Grade 2 Units 1-4
  • Grade 3 Units 1-4
  • Grade 4 Units 1-6
  • Grade 5 Units 1-6

These slides are available as downloadable PowerPoint files in the Materials section of each lesson. We’ll continue releasing slide decks throughout the year.

Takeoff alignment to South Dakota state standards

We’ve added alignments for the South Dakota Content Standards for math to our K-5 Takeoff curriculum. When signed into a Takeoff account from South Dakota, users will see their state standards in all the usual places, such as on each grade level’s landing page and at the top of each unit and lesson.

New math skill for the UK edition

We’ve released a new Year 7 skill in the UK edition! In Calculate speed, distance or time: word problems, students leverage the relationship between speed, distance, and time to compute missing quantities in word problem scenarios. This builds upon students’ previous understanding of ratios and rates and helps them build confidence applying their knowledge to real-world situations.