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 May, including the Student Diagnostic Growth report, 2025-26 IXL Rewind, Live Classroom alerts for students who may be rushing through the Diagnostic, and more! To stay current with our latest updates, follow IXL on Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.
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Major releases
Student Diagnostic Growth report
We’ve released the Student Diagnostic Growth report for teachers and students! This new report tracks students’ Diagnostic growth over the course of the school year, both overall and in each strand. It gives teachers and students a clearer way to monitor progress, celebrate growth, and identify strands that may need more targeted support.
At the top of the report, teachers and students can quickly see the student’s current level and total growth this school year, while the growth chart shows how the student’s diagnostic levels have changed over time. A table below the chart makes it easy to compare key diagnostic scores side by side, including their starting level, benchmark window scores, and current level.
This report is available for both the LevelUp™ and Flex Diagnostics and is located in the “Assessment” section under Analytics.
2025-2026 IXL Rewind
The IXL Rewind for the 2025-26 school year is now available for teachers! IXL Rewind is a personalized end-of-year celebration that highlights each teacher’s accomplishments on IXL. As the school year winds down, Rewind provides a moment for educators and their students to celebrate their unique learning milestones and memories from the past year.
In their Rewind, each teacher sees a range of stats personalized to their classroom’s usage of IXL, including data that may not be available in Analytics, such as the top award-earning students, the most difficult skill their class conquered, and their class’s favorite game! At the end of their Rewind, teachers can even download shareable highlights for social media.
The 2025-26 IXL Rewind is available for all teachers on the US edition with at least 3 hours of activity. Teachers will see a link to their Rewind on their dashboard until June 26, and after that can access their Rewind directly through ixl.com/rewind.
Feature updates
Live Classroom alert for students who may be rushing during the LevelUp™ Diagnostic
The Live Classroom report now notifies teachers in real time when students may be intentionally rushing through the LevelUp Diagnostic. This alert helps teachers maintain reliable assessment scores by flagging students who are not engaging with their diagnostic, so teachers can intervene early and encourage them to focus.
IXL LevelUp Math Diagnostic HS standards reports for AL, MN, NE, ND, SC, TN, and WV
We’ve added LevelUp Math Diagnostic standards reports for Alabama, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia high school math standards. The new courses included are:
- Alabama – Algebra 1 with Probability, Geometry with Data Analysis, and Algebra 2 with Statistics
- Minnesota (2007) – Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2
- Nebraska – Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2
- North Dakota – Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2
- South Carolina – Algebra 1, Geometry with Statistics, Algebra 2 with Probability
- Tennessee – Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2
- West Virginia – Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2
We will continue to release additional states’ high school standards reports in the coming months.
Skill plan updates and new skills
IXL Summer Boost and Summer Adventures skill plans return
IXL’s summer spotlight skill plans are back! These two seasonal skill plans for summer each provide 20 days’ worth of skill recommendations:
- Summer Boost for math and ELA focuses on the most important skills from the previous year to set students up for success in the fall. They are available for rising K-12 students.
- Summer Adventures plans are designed to keep students exploring fun new topics this summer. There’s one plan per grade for rising K-8 students, incorporating skills from math, ELA, science, and social studies.
Students should follow the plan that reflects their grade for the upcoming school year (e.g., rising third graders should use the third grade plan).
New math skills
We’ve released nearly a dozen new math skills for middle and high school:
- Distance between rational numbers on a number line (Grade 7)
- Create and interpret two-way frequency tables (Grade 8)
- Dilations: write the rule (Grade 8)
- Write a quadratic function in standard form from its vertex and another point (Alg 1)
- Standard deviation of a sample (Alg 1)
- Estimate average rate of change from a graph (Alg 1)
- Factor theorem (Alg 2)
- Areas of regions bounded by two curves: functions of y (Calculus)
- Areas of regions bounded by curves with more than two intersection points (Calculus)
- Find general solutions to separable differential equations (Calculus)
- Solve initial value problems involving linear motion (Calculus)
New English language arts skill
We’ve released a new ELA skill for 8th grade!
In Read about science and nature, students apply diverse reading strategies to analyze engaging informational passages about exciting scientific discoveries and the wonders of the natural world.
Additionally, we’ve added a new “Decodable texts” topic to ELA, which makes it easier to find all of IXL’s decodable text skills in one place. These skills feature sentence-level and longer passages that are carefully controlled to focus on specific phonics patterns (for example, Read silent e stories).
New Spanish language arts skill
We’ve added a new SLA skill for 3rd grade!
In Leer fantasía con ilustraciones (Read fantasy with illustrations), students build reading comprehension skills as they explore imaginative fantasy stories supported by vibrant illustrations.
New science skills
We’ve released a big batch of almost 30 new science skills, spanning fourth grade to high school biology, chemistry, and physics:
- Natural energy resources: coal and wind (Grades 4 & 5)
- Particles of matter (Grade 5)
- Interpret distance-time graphs (Grades 6-8)
- Sound waves (Grades 6-8)
- Evidence of continental drift and plate tectonics (Grades 6-8)
- Renewable and nonrenewable energy resources (Grades 6-8)
- Trophic levels and energy pyramids (Grade 6-biology)
- Classify ecological relationships (Grade 6-biology)
- Gene mutations (Biology)
- Source analysis: Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection (Biology)
- The phases of meiosis (Biology)
- History of the periodic table (Chemistry)
- Use Lewis structures to predict molecular polarity (Chemistry)
- Name binary covalent compounds (Chemistry)
- Interpret heating curves (Chemistry)
- Use titration cures to calculate the concentration of a strong acid or base (Chemistry)
- The photoelectric effect and the particle nature of light (Chemistry)
- Calculate the percent yield of a reaction (Chemistry)
- Classify and describe covalent substances, ionic compounds, and metals (Chemistry)
- Ideal gas law (Chemistry)
- Introduction to acids and bases (Chemistry)
- Introduction to the periodic table (Chemistry)
- Matter and energy transfer between a system and its surroundings (Chemistry)
- Write chemical formulas of binary covalent compounds (Chemistry)
- Sound waves: speed, frequency, and wavelength (Physics)
- Calculations involving sound intensity (Physics)
- Speed and velocity in one dimension (Physics)
- Classify vectors and scalars (Physics)
- Pendulum oscillations: period and frequency (Physics)
New social studies skills
We’ve released 14 new social studies skills for elementary and middle school, as well as high school U.S. history:
- Region profile: the Northeast (Grades 4 & 5)
- Region profile: the Great Lakes (Grades 4 & 5)
- Native peoples of California (Grades 6-8)
- Compare forms of government: Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico (Grades 6-8)
- World War II: U.S. involvement (Grades 7 & 8)
- The civil rights movement: school desegregation (Grades 7 & 8)
- The civil rights movement: nonviolent protest (Grades 7 & 8)
- The Great Depression (Grades 7 & 8)
- The New Deal (Grades 7 & 8)
- World War I: the end of the war (U.S. history)
- Life during the Great Depression (U.S. history)
- The New Deal: part I (U.S. history)
- World War II: the home front (U.S. history)
- Civil rights movement: nonviolent direct action (U.S. history)
New textbook skill plans
We’ve released skill plans for the following science textbooks:
- HMH Into Science (Grades 6-8)
- HMH Science Dimensions (Biology, chemistry & physics)
- Amplify Science (Grades K & 1)
New standards skill plans
We’ve released new skill plans for the following standards:
- Iowa Academic Standards for Social Studies (adopted in 2026) (Grades K-8, U.S. history, & civics)
- Western Australia Curriculum (2026): Maths standards (Years P-10)
New test prep skill plans
We’ve released additional skill plans aligned to the AZELLA (Arizona English Language Learner Assessment) English language proficiency assessment. These new additions include plans for students in grade K, grade 1, grades 4-5, grades 6-8, and grades 9-12, meaning we now have plans for grades K-12! The AZELLA plans provide skill recommendations based on the English Language Proficiency Standard levels, ensuring students have the appropriate skills to support their English language development.
We’ve also released math and ELA plans for grades 3-8 aligned to the Classic Learning Test 3-8 (CLT3-8). The Classic Learning Test (CLT) is a standardized test sometimes used for private school entrance exams, and is popular with homeschoolers and private school students.
For the UK, we’ve added biology, chemistry, and physics skill plans to our General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) program! The GCSE is an academic qualification typically taken in Year 11.
Finally, NWEA MAP plans are now on our AU edition! In Australia, we’ve released three new math test prep plans for Australia NWEA MAP® Growth™—Math F-2, 2-6, and 7+. We are excited to offer these test prep skill plans tailored to the Australian edition of MAP Growth.
Additional releases
New math, ELA, and SLA video tutorials
Math:
We’ve released 25 new math videos to expand our library, covering topics such as putting numbers in order using number lines and graphs of inverse functions.
Language arts:
We’ve released 17 new videos for ELA skills in elementary school and one new video for a recently released SLA skill! These videos cover topics such as comparing and contrasting in informational passages and reading fantasy with illustrations (leer fantasía con ilustraciones).
Takeoff alignment to Minnesota standards
We’ve added alignments for the Minnesota Academic Standards (adopted in 2022) for math to our K-5 Takeoff curriculum. When signed into a Takeoff account, educators in Minnesota 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.
We’ve also added alignments to the Standards for Mathematical Practice to Minnesota! These standards highlight the thinking, reasoning, and communication skills that make for successful math students, and the alignments help teachers identify the most important practices to call out in each Takeoff unit, lesson, mid-unit check-in, and end-of-unit test. Additionally, the “Math practices” tab on unit outline pages offers specific tips for supporting these practices in the classroom.
Additional Takeoff California Edition grades K-2 independent practice
For the California Edition of Takeoff, we’ve released English independent practice pages for kindergarten units 1-11, 1st grade units 1-13, and 2nd grade units 1-11. This means we now offer practice pages in English for all grade levels in the California Edition!
We’ve also added Spanish practice pages for 2nd grade units 1-11, and we plan to release Spanish pages for the remaining grade levels in the coming months.
As a reminder, teachers can find independent practice pages and answer keys within the materials list for the lessons where they’re available.
New Takeoff slide decks in Spanish
Last year we added a new resource for Takeoff, instructional slides! Teachers can use these instructional slide decks to teach Takeoff lessons alongside provided student materials. We have full coverage of instructional slides for all K-5 Takeoff lessons in English, and now the following slides are available in Spanish in both the national and California editions:
- Kindergarten units 2 & 3
- Grade 1 units 2 & 3
- Grade 2 units 2 & 3
- Grade 3 units 2 & 3
- Grade 4 units 2 & 3
- Grade 5 units 2 & 3
These slides are available as downloadable PowerPoint files in the Materials section of each lesson.
New math skills for CA, UK, and AU
We released a large number of new math skills in our Canadian, Australian, and UK editions! Some examples include:
- In the Canada Grade 1 skill Indirect comparison, students develop spatial reasoning skills by deducing which of two objects is longer or shorter by measuring with a third. This skill is also available in UK Year 2 and Australia Year 1.
- In the UK Year 2 skill Write stories involving repeated addition – sums to 25, students solve problems to help build the foundations for understanding multiplication. We have also released versions of this skill in Year 2 for Australia and Grade 2 for Canada.
- In the Australia Year 3 skill Multiplication and division: real-world patterns, students learn to identify and extend relationships between two sets of numbers presented in real-world contexts. This skill moves students beyond simple arithmetic and into the realm of algebraic thinking, asking them to find the rule that governs a table of data. This skill is also available in Canada Grade 3 and UK Year 4.