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 the ability to assign Snapshots by courses, anonymous responses in Group Jam, video tutorials and quizzes on iOS, and more! To stay current with our latest updates, follow IXL on Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.
Table of contents:
Feature updates
Assign Snapshots by courses
Lead and primary administrators can now assign Diagnostic Snapshots by courses! For example, an administrator can now assign a Snapshot to students enrolled in Algebra 2 or all students enrolled in any ELA course. This gives administrators more flexibility to assess specific groups of students.
Teacher filtering in School and District Analytics
School and district administrators will now be able to filter and group reports by any of their rostered teachers. This allows administrators to more easily see teacher data and identify actionable implementation strategies.
Teacher filtering is available in the following School and District Analytics reports:
- Skill Usage
- Skill Proficiency
- Diagnostic Levels
- Diagnostic Tier Analysis
- Diagnostic Strands
- Snapshot Growth
- Screener Levels
Teachers and students can view time spent in additional activities
IXL offers a robust suite of learning resources, from instructional videos and learning games to assessments and quizzes. Now, in addition to data on IXL skill practice, students and teachers can see students’ time spent across various learning activities on IXL, including:
- Assessments
- Quizzes
- Group Jams
- Video tutorials
- Learning games
This new time spent learning stat is displayed in the teacher and student dashboards and Teacher Analytics reports. Hover over the metric to see a breakdown of time in each activity.
Anonymous responses in Group Jam
Teachers have an option to anonymize student responses in Group Jam! This can help students to focus on answering questions without getting distracted by others’ responses.
When applying this setting, teachers can choose to anonymize student responses for students only, or for both students and the teacher.
- For students only: Students can see who answered, but not whether responses are correct or incorrect.
- For students and the teacher: Students and the teacher can see who has submitted a response. During question review, student avatars are shown only for correct responses. This option is especially helpful when teachers are projecting the Group Jam on the board for the whole class.
Students can take quizzes on the iPhone app
Students can now complete IXL Quizzes on the iPhone app! Learners can access assigned quizzes on the “From your teacher” page.
Video tutorials are available on iOS apps
All users can now watch video tutorials for supported skills in the IXL iPad and iPhone apps!
Skill plan updates and new skills
Updated PSAT and SAT skill plans and study plans
We’ve updated and added new skills to our SAT and PSAT skill plans, as well as our personalized SAT study plans, to align with the new digital SAT.
Students will be able to prepare more effectively for the SAT with IXL by creating personalized study plans with updated subscores from the new test. They’ll also have more targeted skill recommendations for more score bands.
New and improved math skills
We’ve released many new math skills:
- Use models to solve word problems involving addition and subtraction (Grade 1)
- Addition and subtraction sentences for word problems – up to 20 (Grade 1)
- Break apart a three-digit number to subtract (Grade 2)
- Use equations to solve addition and subtraction word problems (Grade 4)
- Multiply a decimal by a one-digit whole number: tenths or hundredths (Grade 5)
- Solve two-step equations with fractions (Grade 7)
- Solve trigonometric equations using sum and difference identities (Algebra 2)
- Find antiderivatives (Calculus)
- Properties of definite integrals (Calculus)
And updated the following skills:
- Choose numbers with a particular sum, difference, product, or quotient (Grade 4)
- Inequalities with multiplication (Grade 4)
- Multiply two fractions using models (Grade 5)
- Choose numbers with a particular product (Grade 5)
New ELA skills
We’ve released several new ELA skills:
- Change the first sound in a word (Kindergarten)
- Change the last sound in a word (Kindergarten)
- Change the vowel sound in a word (Kindergarten)
- Change the sound in a word: review (Kindergarten)
- Read short a stories (Kindergarten)
- Change the first sound in a word (Grade 1)
- Change the last sound in a word (Grade 1)
- Change the vowel sound in a word (Grade 1)
- Read short a stories (Grade 1)
- Change the sound in a word (Grade 2)
- Use academic vocabulary in context: literary (Grade 6)
- Remove the sentence that does not belong (Grade 8)
New science skills
We’ve released four new science skills:
- Organization in the human body (Grades 6-8)
- Lunar eclipses (Grades 5-8)
- Structure and function: proteins (Biology)
- Identify the structures and functions of biomolecules (Biology)
New social studies skills
We’ve released three new social studies skills for high school social studies:
- Identify types of government (Civics & government)
- Federalism (Civics & government)
- The judicial branch (Civics & government)
New and updated textbook skill plans
We’ve released new skill plans for the following textbooks:
ELA
- Being a Reader, Second Edition (Grades K-2)
Math
- Reveal Math Florida (Grades 3-5)
Science
- McGraw Hill Texas Science (Grades K-4 and 6-7)
- STEMscopes Science Texas (Grades K-4)
And revamped the following ELA skill plans:
- Schoolwide Reading Fundamentals (Grades 3-7)
- Schoolwide Writing and Grammar Fundamentals (Grades 3-7)
New standards skill plans for biology and civics
We’ve released new high school biology and civics standards skill plans for the following states:
- Biology: AK, CO, ID, LA, ME, MT, ND, NE, OK, SC, SD, WV, WY
- Civics: AK, CO, ID, LA, ME, MO, MT, ND, NE, OK, SC, SD, WV, WY
New test prep skill plans
We’ve added new test prep skill plans:
- Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System ELA (Grades 3-8 and 10)
- Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Math (Grades 3-8 and 10)
- Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Science (Grades 5 and 8)
- Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Social Studies (Grade 8)
- New Mexico Statewide Assessment System ELA (Grades 3-8)
- New Mexico Statewide Assessment System Math (Grades 3-8)
- New Mexico Statewide Assessment System Science (Grades 5 and 8)
- Oregon’s Statewide Assessment System ELA (Grades 3-8)
- Oregon’s Statewide Assessment System Math (Grades 3-8)
- Oregon’s Statewide Assessment System Science (Grades 5 and 8)
Additional releases
New math and ELA videos
We’ve released 10 new math videos to expand our coverage! The videos in this release cover topics such as:
- Customary units of length: word problems (Grade 2)
- Solving a nonlinear system of equations (Algebra 2)
And, we’ve added 27 new localized videos for Canada in Grades 5-9.
We’ve also released 13 phonics and middle school ELA videos to expand our coverage in existing grades. The videos in this release cover topics such as:
- Analyzing passages from Travels with Charley (Grade 8)
- Choosing the correct spelling of the consonant-l-e word (Grade 2)
In addition, we added Spanish subtitles to 13 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 include a handful of addition and subtraction word problem skills in elementary school.
New math skill on IXL’s AU, UK, and CA editions
We’ve added a new Calculus skill: