What’s new on IXL – December 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 December, including new grade and year levels for IXL Science in Canada, the UK, and Australia; teacher access to incoming Common Assessment results; translation support expansion to more than 120 languages; and more! To stay current with our latest updates, follow IXL on Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.

Table of contents:

Major releases

New grade and year levels for CA, UK and AU science

IXL’s Canadian, UK, and Australian science curricula have been extended to high school and later secondary school levels! These editions of IXL Science now support the following grades/years:

  • Canada: Grades 9 and 10
  • UK: Years 10 and 11
  • Australia: Years 9 and 10

This release includes over 500 new science skills, covering topics such as physical science, life science, Earth and space science, scientific inquiry, and engineering design. They’re aligned with Canadian provincial curricula and with UK and Australian national curricula.

Additionally, the UK skills are designed to help prepare students for GCSE exams, work with a range of different exam syllabi, and are aligned to biology, chemistry, and physics GCSE content.

A webpage showing Year 10 science skills for the UK. The skills are organized by topic into three columns.

Feature updates

Incoming Common Assessment results sharable with teachers

Admins can now grant teachers access to Common Assessment results as student submissions come in, instead of having to wait until the assessment has ended. This update makes it easier for teachers to act on assessment results with less delay.

When editing a Common Assessment, admins can select a new option to show results to teachers as students submit, which lets teachers view the full report (both scores and answers) as results come in. Options to control results students can see remain the same.

The options menu for a new Common Assessment. The third option from the bottom says "Show results to teachers" next to a dropdown menu showing options for "After students submit," "After assessment ends," and "don

Language support expanded to 120+ languages

IXL now provides language support for more than 120 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 these languages:

  • Basque
  • Catalan
  • Czech
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • Galician
  • Icelandic
  • Latvian
  • Luxembourgish
  • Macedonian
  • Maltese
  • Mam
  • Nahuatl
  • Romani
  • Sicilian
  • Slovenian
  • Venetian
  • Zapotec

Additionally, the 11 languages in bold now also have audio support. With the click of a button, students can hear text in IXL math, science, and social studies skills read aloud. This brings our total number of audio-supported languages to 82!

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

New fact sets for the Fluency Zone

The Fluency Zone is an all-in-one hub dedicated to helping learners master math facts. We’ve added four new fact sets to the Fluency Zone, rounding out our coverage of the most commonly taught math facts in grades 1-4. The new fact sets are:

  • Addition and subtraction within 10
  • Multiplication facts up to 12
  • Division facts up to 12
  • Multiplication and division facts up to 12

Each fact set includes a Raceway challenge, games, videos, skills, and worksheets. This update allows educators to more effectively meet students where they are in their fact fluency development.

LevelUp™ ELA Diagnostic standards reports for 7 more states

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

  • Arkansas
  • Idaho
  • Kansas
  • Minnesota
  • Nebraska
  • North Dakota
  • Oklahoma

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 reports for Kansas and Ohio high school standards

We’ve added LevelUp Math Diagnostic standards reports for Kansas’ and Ohio’s high school math standards. For Kansas, the new courses included are Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II. For Ohio, they are Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, and Integrated Math 1, 2, and 3.

Teachers in these states will now be able to track their students’ knowledge of high school state standards after completing a LevelUp Math assessment. We will continue to release additional states’ high school standards reports in the coming months.

IXL Quizzes and Common Assessments can be renamed

Teachers and admins now have the ability to update the names of IXL Quizzes, Common Assessments, and Quiz Library resources that are active, scheduled, or past. Educators may want to do this to keep their custom assessments organized, or to correct a mistake after the assessment is published. This additional flexibility and control alleviates the need to make a new copy of the assessment or reach out to IXL support to make the change.

Teachers will find a new “Edit settings” menu option for any quiz they’ve created, which now has options to update the name, which results are shown to students, and question order for the quiz, all in one place. Admins will see the option to update the name for Common Assessments in the existing “Edit settings” menu option.

The options menu for a current IXL Quiz. The menu is open and the option "Edit settings" is highlighted.

Vocab Zone improved on mobile

The Vocab Zone is a space where students can explore thousands of vocabulary lists curated to support vocab development across middle and high school texts and topics. We’ve updated the Vocab Zone to be mobile responsive, enhancing its look and usability on mobile devices. Learners accessing the Vocab Zone from a browser on their phones and tablets will be able to quickly and easily flip through flashcards, building their vocabularies on the go!

Family account skill plan pinning for individual children

Parents can now pin skill plans for individual children! Previously, parents could only pin a skill plan for all children, but now they’re able to hover over the pin icon to specify exactly which child can see which skill plan.

We’re excited to be able to provide more customization to the family experience so children can see the skill plans that are truly meant for their learning path! This update is available in all English editions.

An IXL skill plan with the 1st grade plan pinned. Beneath the pin is a menu that says "Pin this skill plan for:". Below are a list of different children, as well as an option to pin the plan for all children.

Skill plan updates and new skills

New NWEA MAP StudyWise plans for Virginia

IXL’s StudyWise tool turns student’s previous test scores into their own personalized study plans. We’ve expanded our skill plans and personalized study plans for Virginia NWEA MAP to include high school math (Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2) and science (2-5, 6-8).

Teachers and students can now input scores into StudyWise to generate personalized plans that align with these Virginia MAP tests. As usual, admins can still request bulk uploading scores for their school.

New math skills

We’ve released several new math skills for elementary school and high school:

New English language arts skills

We’ve released several new Reading Foundations skills for K-5:

New Spanish language arts skills

We’ve released two new Spanish language arts skills for students in grades 4 and 5. These skills, Leer ficción realista (Read realistic fiction), require students to analyze a long piece of realistic fiction from a variety of angles. They feature creative, engaging stories and support the development of key reading comprehension skills such as making inferences, using context clues to determine word meaning, and examining an author’s craft.

New science skill

We’ve released a new science skill for high school biology! In Ecological succession, students analyze passages to identify changes that occurred in an ecosystem after a disturbance. Then, students identify whether the ecosystem went through primary or secondary succession.

New social studies skills

We’ve released four new social studies skills for high school U.S. History:

  • World War II: U.S. entry: Students analyze U.S. isolationism before World War II, and how the U.S. eventually entered the war, with a specific focus on the Neutrality Acts, the Lend-Lease Act, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and early war mobilization efforts.
  • Source analysis: Letter from Birmingham Jail: Students are guided through a close reading of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, which he wrote during the Birmingham civil rights campaign of 1963.
  • The presidency of Richard Nixon: Students investigate Nixon’s political career, including his election, accomplishments and controversies during his presidency, and how the Watergate scandal led to his resignation.
  • The presidency of Jimmy Carter: Students learn about Carter’s term in office, including his Crisis of Confidence speech, the energy crisis, economic stagflation, the Camp David Peace Accords, and the Iranian hostage crisis.

New textbook skill plans

English language arts:

Social studies

New standards skill plans

We’ve expanded our coverage for New York Regents! We have released test prep skill plans for the following exams:

New test prep skill plans

WIDA ACCESS

We’ve released skill plans aligned to the updated WIDA ACCESS test for grades K-12. The plans provide skill recommendations based on the WIDA ACCESS proficiency levels, levels 1-6, so students have the just-right skills to support their English language development. Our plans focus on the Reading and Writing domains of the test.

Classic Learning Test (CLT) and CLT10

We’ve released skill plans aligned to the Classic Learning Test (CLT) and the CLT10. We offer skill plans aligned to each test’s 3 sections: Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, and Grammar/Writing. The skill plans are leveled based on score, with skills corresponding to the expected difficulty of questions in that score range. Students can either start based on their current score (if they have already taken the test) or start based on their target score.

Additional releases

New math, ELA, and SLA video tutorials

Math:

We’ve released 38 new math videos to expand our library, covering topics such as types of angles and finding indefinite integrals using substitution.

We’ve also released 5 new localized math videos for Canada.

Additionally, we’ve added Spanish captions to 11 more math videos. (Like translated skills, translated captions are available to users with Spanish support enabled.)

Language arts:

IXL now has ELA video tutorials available for all grade levels! With this latest release, video tutorials are available for select skills in the Reading Strategies and Writing Strategies categories in grades 9 through 12. These videos cover topics such as recalling the source of an allusion and reading workplace emails and memos. So far, we’ve released 26 videos that cover 103 skills across these grade levels, and we will continue to add more videos in the coming months.

Plus, this release includes 3 new ELA videos covering skills in grades 2-5, and one new video for a recently released SLA skill! These videos cover topics such as adding imagery to stories and reading about food (leer sobre comida).

New Takeoff independent practice units

We’ve released units 9-11 of independent practice for Grade 2 Takeoff. We now offer independent practice for all Grade 2 Takeoff units, supporting 2nd grade students as they learn on their own!

New Takeoff slide decks

We’ve added Spanish translation support for units 6-8 of independent practice for Grade 2 Takeoff! We’re excited to extend our translation support to these resources, further supporting teachers and helping Spanish-speaking English language learners succeed in math. Spanish translations for the remaining Grade 2 units will become available within the next few months.

New Takeoff vocabulary glossaries

In October, we released English and Spanish glossaries for Takeoff that include important academic vocabulary words for students. We’ve added new bilingual vocabulary glossaries in traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, and Arabic to the National edition of Takeoff.

As a reminder, teachers can view all vocabulary glossaries (including the English glossary as well as a bilingual version in Spanish) in their grade’s Additional resources tab. All students have access to the English glossary, and students with traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, or Arabic support enabled will have access to these new glossaries.

New math skills for Australia

We’ve released 2 new skills in Year 1 of the Australian edition! In the skills Subtract by counting on – up to 10 and up to 20, students count forward on a number line to work out the answer to different subtraction problems. This helps students equip themselves with one more strategy for tackling subtraction.