Keep parents in the loop with IXL Analytics

This article was updated on March 27, 2025

In the Classroom

Note: In March 2025, we updated the names of IXL’s diagnostics to better reflect the capabilities of our assessments! The assessment names, report titles, and other related terminology in this blog post may not be current. Get more information on the IXL Diagnostics here.

IXL Analytics is a powerful suite of reports that tracks and analyzes all of your students’ work, providing you with real-time, useful insights into their learning progress. 

Not only is IXL Analytics an invaluable teacher resource, it can also be used to keep families regularly informed on their children’s education! With family-friendly reports and built-in tools to streamline the school-home connection, IXL Analytics makes parent involvement easier than ever.

Read on to learn how you can leverage IXL Analytics to help families stay up to date on their children’s learning and foster at-home support.

Relay assessment progress through IXL Action Plans

When students pinpoint their knowledge levels through the IXL Flex Diagnostic or IXL LevelUp™ Diagnostic, they receive a personalized plan of skill recommendations to help them grow from where they are.

By sharing these plans with students’ families, you’ll give parents the opportunity to track their children’s assessment progress and help them work through their skill recommendations at home.

You can email a student’s IXL Action Plan to their parents from within IXL Analytics in a few quick clicks!

  1. Click the ‘Assessment’ tab in the green navigation bar.
  2. Select which student’s action plan you want to view.
  3. Click the blue ‘Share with family’ button at the bottom of the page.
  4. Confirm to which parent/guardian email address(es) you would like to email the report. You can also choose to send a copy of the email to yourself and/or add a personal message.
  5. Click ‘Send Email’ to share the report.

You can also print out a student’s action plan to give to families at school meetings, or send it home with students after their latest assessment. Just click the blue “Print action plan” button at the bottom of the page!

Provide an in-depth look at progress with the Student Summary report

Give parents complete insight into their children’s learning through the Student Summary report. This family-friendly report showcases student growth in a comprehensive, easy-to-read format, and it provides specific opportunities for parent support.

Here’s a brief breakdown of how each report section supports the school-home connection:

  • Overall growth: The Assessment Levels graph shows parents how well their child understands grade-level math and English language arts material, based on the IXL Flex Diagnostic and/or IXL LevelUp™ Diagnostic. 
  • IXL accomplishments: With all of their child’s learning achievements in one place, this section is perfect for a family to celebrate the progress their child has made this school year.
  • Areas to focus on: Parents receive a roadmap of the exact best next steps they can take to support their child’s growth. They’ll see which skills their child is struggling with, which skills you’ve assigned, and which skills will help their learner make progress on future assessments.
  • At-home support: This IXL resource roundup equips parents with a variety of handy links that will help them better support their child outside of the classroom.

The Student Summary report can easily be printed out to share with families at parent-teacher conferences, IEP meetings, and more! Just click the ‘Print’ button at the top of the report.

And, like IXL Action Plans, you can email this report to students’ families directly from IXL Analytics by following the same simple steps. Plus, you can choose to include a student’s IXL Action Plan in their Student Summary email!

Set parents up with IXL Analytics for students

Available for every student, IXL Analytics empowers learners to track their own progress and can be a great way to facilitate family involvement. 

To get parents started, provide instructions on how to sign in to their child’s IXL account and where they can locate the Analytics tab. From here, you can leave it up to each family to utilize IXL Analytics however best fits their goals.

It might be helpful to highlight the benefits of each six reports:

Encourage parents to regularly check in on their child’s analytics reports so they’ll always be in-the-know on how their learner is progressing!

For more information on IXL Analytics, check out our collection of IXL Minis, bite-sized videos full of instantly actionable insights.