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 recommended IXL Minis throughout the platform, the LevelUp Math Benchmark on the Student Usage report, a new Personalized Study Plans tab, and more! To stay current with our latest updates, follow IXL on Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.
Table of contents:
Major releases
IXL Minis recommendations
IXL Minis are a collection of fun, bite-sized videos that provide teachers with helpful IXL strategies they can use right away. Now, Minis are placed throughout IXL, so they can help teachers in the moment, and recommend the best video for them to watch next!
IXL Minis are now available in the following places:
- The “Resources” section of the teacher dashboard
- On the Quizzes page for teachers who haven’t created a quiz yet
- The full IXL Minis page
New Personal Study Plans tab
IXL’s personalized study plans help students improve their scores on high-stakes assessments including the SAT, ACT, NWEA MAP Growth, i-Ready Diagnostic, and more! Using students’ previous assessment scores, IXL’s study plans create a custom list of skills to help each student grow from where they are in key concepts for each exam.
We’ve recently made it easier for teachers to manage all of the personalized plans their students are using with a new “Personal study plan” tab on the Skill Plans page. This new tab enables teachers to quickly differentiate study plans from their pinned skill plans, and check progress on their classroom goals.
More co-teacher supported features
IXL is continuing to make big enhancements for co-teachers, providing deeper insights so teachers can better collaborate on student learning. In our latest update, teachers have even more abilities to interact with co-taught students, including:
- Assigning IXL Quizzes
- Pinning Skill Plans
- Starting IXL Group Jams
And of course, it’s important for co-teachers to be able to see all of their relevant student data. Now, co-teachers will also share data for:
- Quiz Analysis results for a quiz assigned by a co-teacher
- Student Quickview, Student Usage, Score Grid, Student Score Chart, Skills Practiced, Skill Analysis, and Questions Log for skills suggested by a co-teacher
LevelUp Benchmark usage reporting and bulk printing
IXL’s LevelUp Math Benchmark seamlessly connects assessment and personalized practice. Now, teachers have more insight into how much time students are spending and the number of questions they’re answering on their LevelUp Math Benchmarks! LevelUp Benchmark data is now available in both the Students Quickview and Student Usage reports for in-progress and completed sessions in both benchmark and real-time mode.
Students can also view their own Benchmark sessions logs from their Student Usage report.
Plus, evaluating and sharing LevelUp Math Benchmark plans with students and parents just got easier. Teachers can now print all of their students’ Benchmark action plans at once in the Benchmark Overview report!
Similar to the IXL Diagnostic, teachers can click an icon to the right of “Individual student levels & recommendations”, which opens a prompt to print all Benchmark action plans at once.
Feature updates
Time spent for IXL Family accounts
IXL families have access to tons of great resources to support their child’s learning. To help parents see exactly what their child has been working on, we’ve updated the Student Usage report to include time spent:
- Working in the diagnostic arena
- Playing learning games
- Watching video tutorials
To see a breakdown of how your child spends their time on IXL, simply hover over the time spent stat at the top of the chart. This update is available for family accounts for all English editions.
Video tutorials on the IXL app!
Take learning on the go with the IXL App! In addition to the IXL iOS app, IXL’s Android app now supports access to IXL’s 3,600+ video tutorials for math and English!
New support languages: Dari, Malay, and Wolof
IXL provides language support in more than 50 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 additional languages:
- Dari, a variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Malay, a language spoken by hundreds of millions of people in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore
- Wolof, a Western Africa language spoken in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania
To turn on language support for learners, go to your Profile & Settings page and “Enable translation support” for select students.
Skill plan updates and new skills
New math skills
We’ve released and updated several new math skills across elementary and high school!
Elementary:
- Choose the best measuring tool: customary units of length (Grade 2)
- Find equivalent fractions using multiplication and division (Grade 4)
- Sort multiples into a Venn diagram (Grade 4)
- Multiply fractions by whole numbers (Grade 4)
- Multiply mixed numbers by whole numbers (Grade 4)
- Divide by 2-digit numbers: estimate and adjust (Grade 5)
- Evaluate numerical expressions with fractions (Grade 5)
High school:
- Evaluate definite integrals involving trigonometric functions (Calculus)
- Average value of a function (Calculus)
Updated images for phonics skills
We updated over 300 illustrations across approximately 20 early literacy skills to make them more engaging for younger learners. See some of these fun new images in action in the skills:
- Find the word with the same vowel sound (Grade 1)
- Choose the r-control word that matches the picture (Grade 2)
New science skills
We’ve released several new elementary science and high school biology skills for the US and Canada!
- Identify types of plants (US Grades K-1, CA Grade 1)
- How do living things change their environments to meet their needs? (CA Grades K-1)
- Fast and slow (Grade 1)
- This skill is also available in grade 1 in the CA edition.
- Chemistry of water (Biology)
- Interpret a Serengeti food web (Biology)
We’ve also released Space exploration and the state of Florida in grade 8 specifically for Florida.
New social studies skills
We’ve released three new social studies skills for high school civics & government, and a holiday skill for grades K-1:
- Kwanzaa (Grades K-1)
- Supreme Court cases on the balance of power (Civics)
- Economic systems (Civics)
- Immigration and naturalization (Civics)
New textbook skill plans
We’ve released skill plans for the following textbooks:
- enVision Math (2024 edition) (Grades K-1, 3-8)
- White Rose Maths (UK) (Year 1, Year 3, and Post 16)
- PhD Science (NGSS edition) (Grades K-2)
New standards skill plans
We’ve released skill plans for the following standards:
- FAST (Florida Assessment of Student Thinking) (Grades 3-8 math, Grades 3-10 ELA Reading)
- FAST (Florida Assessment of Student Thinking) – Study plan
- Florida B.E.S.T. Writing (Grade 4-10)
- Minnesota Academic Standards (adopted in 2021): Social studies (K-Civics)
- Texas TEKS Prekindergarten Guidelines (PK4 math and ELA)
- Our skill plans now align to the latest Texas standards for PK4 released in 2022
- Indiana’s ILEARN Checkpoints (Grades 3-8 math and ELA)
Additional releases
New math and ELA videos
We’ve released 32 new math videos in grades 1 through Precalculus to expand our coverage! The math videos in this release cover topics such as:
- Comparing size, weight, and capacity (Grade 1)
- Identifying graphs of continuous functions (Precalculus)
We’ve also released 18 new ELA videos in grades K-5 and 37 more sight word skill-plan-only videos. The ELA videos in this release cover topics like:
- Read sight words: for, funny, go, me, three, yellow, you (Grade 2)
- Choosing topic sentences for expository paragraphs (Grade 3)
- Commas within a series (Grade 5)
Video tutorials on IXL Canada now cover grades 1-11! We’ve released over 190 videos in grade 1, covering about 85% of the skills, as well as 3 new localized videos for Canada in grades 4-7.
New math skills for Australia and Canada
We’ve released several skills in our Australian and Canadian editions! We added 5 new skills in both Australia Year 1 and Canada Grade 1 to help lay a foundation for place value understanding, including:
- Making and taking apart teen numbers (Grade 1)
We have also released a skill in Canada Grade 8 about volume word problems.
New textbook skill plan for the United Kingdom
We’ve released skill plans for the White Rose Maths textbook for Years 1, 3, and Post 16 in the United Kingdom.