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 pausing and resuming quizzes, more customization for district assessments, new units for Takeoff, and more! To stay current with our latest updates, follow IXL on Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.
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Major releases
New units for Takeoff by IXL Math™
We’ve released Takeoff by IXL Math™ Unit 8 for grades 2 and 3, and Unit 9 for grades 4 and 5!
Takeoff by IXL Math™ units provide 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 8 covers the following topics:
Unit 9 covers the following topics:
Feature updates
Pause and resume IXL Quizzes
Teachers can now pause and resume quizzes for students, enabling them to limit access without ending a quiz! This update makes IXL Quizzes more flexible for teachers, which is especially helpful when they want to pause a quiz for absent students, prevent students from working on quizzes outside of class, or provide extra time to only a few students.
To access pause and resume options, click on “Manage students” in the quiz settings, formerly the “Add students” button. From there, teachers can pause or resume quizzes for specific students and classes. Students whose quiz has been paused will not be able to work on the quiz until it’s resumed. Students whose quiz is resumed will pick up right where they left off.
This feature is available to all teachers on English-speaking editions.
Assessment hours for individual schools
Lead administrators can now set assessment hours for Snapshots and screeners at the individual school level! This change gives administrators more customization for assessments so they can tailor assessment hours that fit each individual school’s start and end times, rather than selecting assessment hours for the entire district.
To set school assessment hours, go to the Assessment section of administrator settings and choose “Restricted” Assessment Hours, meaning students will only be able to work on an assessment during the set hours on weekdays. Administrators can then customize each schools’ start and end times.
Skill plan updates and new skills
New and improved math skills
We’ve released new math skills for elementary and high school:
- Take apart numbers in different ways – sums up to 5 (Kindergarten)
- Take numbers apart in different ways – sums up to 10 (Kindergarten)
- Order objects by length and height (Grade 1)
- Use place value to subtract two-digit numbers – without regrouping (Grade 2)
- Use place value to subtract two-digit numbers – with regrouping (Grade 2)
- Which addition or subtraction equation is true? – up to 100 (Grade 2)
- Understand factors and factor pairs (Grade 4)
- Convert between rational exponents and radicals (Algebra 1)
- Lateral area of pyramids and cones (Geometry)
- Approximate the area under a curve using midpoints (Calculus)
We’ve also revised the Grade 5 skill Divide numbers ending in zeros: word problems. The explanations in this skill now use a familiar place value strategy involving patterns in the number of zeros to better support students.
New ELA writing and book study skills:
- Remove the sentence that does not belong (Grade 6)
- Remove the sentence that does not belong (Grade 7)
- Analyze passages about The Great Gatsby: Part 2 (Grade 11)
New science skills
We’ve released three new middle school science skills!
- Synthetic materials (Grade 6)
- Cell division (Grade 7)
- Applications of infrared waves (Grade 8)
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.
New textbook skill plans
We’ve released new textbook skill plans:
Math
- MathUP (Canada) (Grade 9)
ELA
- Wonders 2023 (Grade 1)
- Schoolwide Reading Fundamentals and Writing & Grammar Fundamentals (Grade 8)
- English 3D (Course C)
Science
- Savvas Texas Experience Science (Kindergarten)
- Into Science Texas (Kindergarten-Grade 4)
New test prep and assessment skill plans
We’ve released new national and state test prep and assessment skill plans:
- Renaissance Star Math (Kindergarten-Algebra 2)
- Renaissance Star Reading (Kindergarten-12)
State plans:
- Minnesota NWEA MAP – Math skill & personalized study plans (Kindergarten-Grade 6+)
- Minnesota NWEA MAP – Reading skill & personalized study plans (Grades 2-12)
- Minnesota NWEA MAP – Language skill & personalized study plans (Grades 2-12)
- New South Carolina High School Employability Credential: Essentials of Math (I-IV)
- New South Carolina High School Employability Credential: Essentials of English (I-IV)
- Maryland Assessments – MCAP Mathematics (Grades 3 – Algebra 2)
- Maryland Assessments – MCAP English Language Arts and Literacy (Grades 3-8 and Grade 10)
- Maryland Assessments – MISA Science (Grade 5 and 8)
- Maryland Assessments – MCAP Social Studies (Grade 8)
- Ohio State Tests – Math (Grades 3-Integrated II)
- Ohio State Tests – ELA (Grades 3-8 and English II)
- Ohio State Tests – Science (Grade 5 and 8)
- Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD-3) (Grade 3)
Check out all of our skill plans for textbooks, state standards, test prep, and more!
Additional releases
New math and ELA videos
We’ve released 20 new math videos from Grade 2 through Algebra 2 to expand our coverage! The videos in this release cover topics such as:
- Using models to add two-digit numbers without regrouping (Grade 2)
- Inverses of csc, sec, and cot (Algebra 2)
And, 4 new localized math videos for Canada in Grades 6-8.
We’ve also released 4 new middle school ELA videos and about 100 new videos for our skill-plan-only sight word skills! Check out some of the videos:
- Analyzing passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Grade 7)
- Read sight words: a, can, go, is, see, she, the, we (Kindergarten)
Expanded Spanish subtitles
Additionally, we’ve extended our Spanish-language support for Geometry! This initial release includes Spanish subtitles for more than 50% of our translated Geometry skills. Like translated skills, translated subtitles are available to users with Spanish support enabled. See an example:
We also added Spanish subtitles to more videos in Grades 3 through Algebra 1 in this release, and we’ll continue to release more math videos with subtitles in Spanish in the coming months.
More math skills with Spanish support
We’ve expanded our Spanish-language support to include a handful of new skills in elementary school. These newly supported skills include interpreting bar graphs, identifying mistakes in number patterns, graphing number patterns described in word problems, and writing addition sentences from word problems.
New grade levels on IXL’s Latin American edition
We released two new grade levels for IXL’s Latin American edition! These new grade levels give Latin American students access to over 250 new skills covering a wide range of math topics. Check out the new grades: