Get ready for a new level of ownership over your IXL Quizzes, Common Assessments, and Quiz Library Resources! Now you can write your own questions for all three of these assessments, authoring custom prompts and answers on specific topics you want to evaluate.

 

The ability to write your own questions completes your assessment needs. You can use IXL’s powerful platform to build and assign tests on any topic you can think of, then gather auto-graded results as soon as they’re available. Whether you’re designing brand-new evaluations or migrating quizzes from paper and other platforms, you can craft questions to get the exact data you require.

 

Ready to learn more? Let’s take a closer look at how these new questions work.

Writing your own questions

When you start a new draft for IXL Quizzes, Common Assessments, and Quiz Library Resources, you’ll have the option to write your own questions instead of drawing ready-made questions from IXL skills.

Writing your own questions in IXL is quick and easy. For each question you write, start by selecting a question type: multiple-choice and multiple-select, or short-answer. Compose your question prompt, add answer choices if you’re writing a multiple-choice or multiple-select question, and set the question’s correct answer or answers.

Additionally, you can associate the question with a standard, which will enable you to view student performance by standard in IXL Analytics later. Having standards-based reporting can help uncover common misconceptions and gauge student readiness for high-stakes exams.

Questions you’ve written in IXL Analytics

Assessments made using questions you’ve written will appear in the same reports as assessments made with IXL questions. For teachers, that includes the Quiz Analysis and Student Quiz Results reports. For administrators, it’s the Common Assessments Results, Common Assessments Item Analysis, Quiz Resource Results, and Quiz Resource Item Analysis reports.

If you attached standards to questions when creating your assessment, you can see how students performed on those standards in the Quiz Analysis report for teachers, and the Item Analysis report for Common Assessments and Quiz Library Resources for administrators.

 

Take full advantage of IXL’s Assessment Suite

Writing your own questions certainly makes IXL Quizzes, Common Assessments, and Quiz Library Resources more flexible, but they’re just one part of IXL’s full Assessment Suite. For example, did you know that IXL has powerful diagnostics for PK-12 math and ELA that provide personalized action plans for each student? Check out this guide on which of our diagnostics best meets your needs.