At IXL, we never stop adding new resources to our award-winning teaching and learning platform, so you can always trust we’re on pace with students’ evolving needs. Each month, 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 national norms visualization, two new courses for high school, personalized i-Ready Diagnostic study plans, and more! To stay current with our latest updates, follow IXL on Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.
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Major releases
National norms visualization in Diagnostic and Screener Levels
District and school administrators, easily see how your students are performing compared to national averages! The Diagnostic Levels and Screener Levels reports now show a visual breakdown of students’ national percentile ranks.
The new “National Norms” view displays an overall distribution of percentile ranks at the top, as well as a distribution of percentile ranks for each school, grade, or course. Administrators can also filter these reports by percentile ranks (for example, you could choose to only view students that are between percentiles 10 and 49).
Administrators can also see students’ percentile ranks within the data charts, and easily export the reports.
Biology and civics & government for high school
We’ve added two new courses to our high school curriculum: biology and civics & government! With these new courses, our science and social studies content spans kindergarten all the way to high school.
IXL Biology skills cover structures and processes of living things, inheritance and variation of traits, ecology, and evolution, as well as key concepts about the process of scientific inquiry.
IXL Civics & Government skills focus on origins and fundamentals of U.S. government, civil rights and liberties, elections and political parties, and economic policy, covering key content knowledge while building social studies vocabulary and analysis skills.
These new skills are fully aligned to all 50 state standards, including NGSS for science. We’ve added standards skill plans for 25 states, with more skill plans to come!
Feature updates
Export national norms from Diagnostic Overview
Teachers can now easily export their students’ nationally normed percentile scores on the IXL Real-Time Diagnostic, in addition to the universal screener. This gives educators more control over valuable data that shows how their students compare to grade-level peers nationwide.
To export national norm data, select the “include student percentiles” option when exporting from the Diagnostic Overview report.
“Student responses” tab in Quiz Analysis
The Quiz Analysis report’s new “Student responses” tab helps teachers take a closer look at how their class answered questions in IXL Quizzes. Teachers can view all student responses question-by-question after a quiz has ended, with matching student responses grouped together. This new tab makes it easy to see the most common misconceptions for each question and create small groups for review.
Access student dashboards from the My IXL tab
Teachers can now easily find a student’s dashboard by navigating to “Student dashboards” under the My IXL menu. This allows teachers to quickly view a student’s suggested skills and recent practice history, giving them more insights into their students’ IXL experience.
Skill plan updates and new skills
Personalized i-Ready Diagnostic study plans
IXL now has personalized study plans for the i-Ready Diagnostic in Math and Reading! The i-Ready Diagnostic study plans show exactly what each student should work on by providing a personalized list of skills based on their scores in the i-Ready Diagnostic.
Both students and teachers can create i-Ready Diagnostic study plans. Administrators that are interested in importing scores quickly for site accounts can reach out to the support team at help@ixl.com.
New units for Takeoff by IXL Math
We’ve released Takeoff by IXL Math™ Unit 9 for grades 2 and 3, Unit 10 for grades 3 and 4, and Unit 11 for grade 4!
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 9 covers the following topics:
Unit 10 covers the following topics:
Unit 11 covers the following topics:
New and improved math skills
We’ve released a few new math skills:
- Subtract three-digit numbers using number lines (Grade 3)
- Multiply decimal numbers using area models (Grade 5)
- Write multiplication expressions to find the volume of rectangular prisms (Grade 5)
- Calculate speed, distance, or time: word problems (Grade 6)
- Determine if two figures are congruent: justify your answer (Grade 8 and Geometry)
- Domain and range of linear functions: graphs (Algebra 1)
- Prove triangles are congruent using rigid motions (Geometry)
And updated the following skills:
- Subtraction sentences for word problems – up to 10 (Grade 1)
- Convert between improper fractions and mixed numbers (Grades 4-5)
New and updated ELA skills
We’ve released a few new ELA skills:
- Revise the sentence using a stronger verb (Grade 8)
- Analyze passages from Frankenstein: Part 2 (Grade 12)
We’ve updated lowercase and uppercase letter skills:
- Choose the lowercase letter that matches: c, k, o, p, s, u, v, w, x, z (Pre-K and Kindergarten)
- Choose the lowercase letter that matches: f, i, j, l, m, t, y (Pre-K and Kindergarten)
- Choose the lowercase letter that matches: a, b, d, e, g, h, n, q, r (Pre-K and Kindergarten)
- Find all the lowercase letters (Pre-K and Kindergarten)
- Choose the uppercase letter that matches: C, K, O, P, S, U, V, W, X, Z (Pre-K and Kindergarten)
- Choose the uppercase letter that matches: F, I, J, L, M, T, Y (Pre-K and Kindergarten)
- Choose the uppercase letter that matches: A, B, D, E, G, H, N, Q, R (Pre-K and Kindergarten)
- Find all the uppercase letters (Pre-K)
- Choose the uppercase letter that matches: review (Kindergarten)
- Find the uppercase letters (Kindergarten)
- Put the letters in ABC order (Kindergarten)
New science skills
We’ve released a couple new science skills:
- Compare young living things to their parents (Grades K-1)
- Types of soils (Grades K-2)
- Electric circuits (Grades 4-5)
- Factors affecting climate: altitude (Grades 6-8)
New textbook skill plans
We’ve released new skill plans for the following textbooks:
ELA
- Into Literature Virginia (Grades 6-12)
Math
- Carnegie Learning Math (2022) (Grades 6-8)
- Reveal Math Florida (Grades K-2)
Science
- Savvas Texas Experience Science (Grades 1-4 and Grades 6-7)
New standards skill plans
We’ve released skill plans for these newly-adopted standards across all grade levels:
- New Jersey Student Learning Standards for ELA (adopted in 2023) (Kindergarten-Grade 12)
- New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Math (adopted in 2023) (Kindergarten-Grade 8, Algebra 1-Precalculus)
- Utah Core Standards for ELA (adopted in 2023) (Pre-K-12)
- South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards (adopted in 2023) (Grades K-PreCalculus)
- California English Language Development Standards (Grades K-12)
- Kentucky Academic Standards for Science (adopted in 2022) (Grades K-8 and Biology)
New test prep skill plans
We’ve added new test prep skill plans and expanded coverage for existing plans:
- Pennsylvania’s Keystone Exam (Biology)
- Arkansas ATLAS assessments Math (Grades 3-8, Algebra 1, and Geometry)
- Arkansas ATLAS assessments ELA (Grades 3-10)
- Arkansas ATLAS assessments Science (Grades 3-8)
- Connecticut Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments Math (Grades 3-8)
- Connecticut Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments ELA (Grades 3-8)
- New York State Testing Program assessments Math (Grades 3-8)
- New York State Testing Program assessments ELA (Grades 3-8)
- New York State Testing Program assessments Science (Grades 5 and 8)
- Delaware System of Student Assessment Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments Math (Grades 3-8)
- Delaware System of Student Assessment Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments ELA (Grades 3-8)
- Georgia Milestones Math (Grades 3-8, Algebra)
- Georgia Milestones ELA (Grades 3-8 and Grade 11)
- Georgia Milestones Science (Grades 5 and 8 and Biology)
- Missouri Assessment Program Science (Grades 5 and 8)
- Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program Social Studies (Grades 6-8)
We’ve also updated the Texas Redesigned STAAR plans for Reading Language Arts (RLA) to align to the latest test blueprints.
Additional releases
New math and ELA videos
We’ve released 36 new math videos from Grade 2 through Algebra 2 to expand our coverage! The videos in this release cover topics such as:
- Making change (Grade 2)
- Use expanded form to add three-digit numbers – without regrouping (Grade 2)
- Determining the number of solutions to a system of equations in three variables (Algebra 2)
- Match polynomials and graphs (Algebra 2)
And, we’ve added 21 new localized videos for Canada in Grades 5-9.
We’ve also released 21 new phonics and middle school ELA videos, and 48 sight word skill plan videos, to expand our coverage in existing grades. The videos in this release cover topics such as:
- Complete the two-syllable words (Grade 2)
- Reading about history (Grade 7)
In addition, we added Spanish subtitles to 12 more math videos. Like translated skills, translated captions are available to users with Spanish support enabled.
More math skills with Spanish support
We’ve expanded our Spanish-language support to a few additional skills in elementary school that ask students to identify numerals spoken aloud.
New math skill on IXL’s AU, UK, and CA editions
We’ve added a new Geometry skill:
- Sequences of congruence transformations: choose the sequence (AU Year 8, UK Year 11, CA Grades 7-8)