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 complete K-12 national norms, a “completed skills” list for students, the teacher dashboard in admin analytics, and more! To stay current with our latest updates, follow IXL on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
Table of contents:
Major releases – significant new features
K-12 national norms for the IXL Real-time Diagnostic
IXL’s Real-time Diagnostic is now nationally normed for K-12 math and ELA!
IXL’s Real-Time Diagnostic has long been established through validity research to be a precise indicator of student achievement and a strong predictor of performance on standardized assessments. With the addition of national norms for grades 9-12, IXL’s Real Time-Diagnostic now has complete national norms for elementary through high school.
Through this normative data, IXL gives administrators broader context for students’ progress and achievement against their peers across the US. See the full guide to K-12 national norms.
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We’ve released Takeoff by IXL Math
Unit 7 in grades 3 and 5!
Takeoff by IXL Math provides 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 7 covers the following topics:
IXL Science is now available in the Canada edition!
We’ve created over 500 science skills in grades K-8 for IXL Canada!
IXL Science in Canada aligns to provincial curricula and covers essential topics like physical science, life science, Earth and space science, scientific inquiry, and engineering design. Each skill teaches students about the world around us through creatively designed activities that spark imagination.
IXL Science is compatible with other popular IXL features like Leaderboards, Group Jams, Quizzes, and Recommendations. It also includes custom skill plans for Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec! We’ll continue to add new skills, topics, and skill plans in the future.
To add IXL Science to your subscription, administrators and teachers can email us at orders@ixl.com and families can email us at support@ixl.com.
Feature updates
Redesigned Admin View of the Teacher Dashboard
Administrators can now view the redesigned teacher dashboard from Teacher Analytics!
This means that administrators can now see what each teacher sees on their dashboard, including:
- Any pinned skill plans
- Recent Group Jams and the Group Jam summaries for each
- Any active or recent Leaderboards and Quizzes
- Overall diagnostic levels for each of the teacher’s students
- Recently practiced skills and largest trouble spots for that teacher’s students
Administrators can click on each item on the teacher’s dashboard to dive deeper. This update applies to admins on all English editions.
“Completed skills” list on the student dashboard
Now it’s easier than ever for students to see which skills they still need to work on!
On the student dashboard, where students can see skills suggested by their teacher or parent, we’ve created a new “completed skills” list. This list automatically filters out all of the skills they’ve already completed, so they can easily see the skills they should focus on next!
Students can toggle their goal for completion based on whether they’re working towards proficiency (a SmartScore of 80) or mastery (a SmartScore of 100), and the list will filter accordingly. This update is available on all English web editions of IXL.
Download action plans from administrator diagnostic reports
School-level administrators can more easily access the individual students’ diagnostic data they are looking for! Student action plans can now be downloaded from the following reports:
To download an action plan, administrators can hover over a student’s score in the “Overall” column of the data table and click the blue report icon.
Skill plan updates and new skills
New and improved math skills
We’ve released a new math skill in Grade 3 and revised a skill in Algebra 2!
- Use equal groups and arrays to solve multiplication word problems (Grade 3)
- Factor polynomials (Algebra 2)
New ELA skill
We’ve added a new advanced phonemic awareness skill in Grade 1!
- Change the sound in a word (Grade 1)
New science skills
We’ve released two new science skills!
- Identify plants and animals (Kindergarten-Grade 1)
- Longitudinal waves (Grades 6-8)
New textbook skill plans
We’ve added the following textbook skill plans:
ELA
- Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) 2017 (Grades 1 and 4)
- Benchmark Advance 2022 (Grade 2)
- Wilson’s Fundations (Level 2)
- Engage NY ELA (Grades 11-12)
- Schoolwide Reading Fundamentals (Grade 7)
- Schoolwide Writing and Grammar (Grade 7)
- English 3D (Course B)
- EL Education (Grade 2)
Science
- Great Minds PhD Science Texas (Grades K-4)
- HMH Into Science Texas (Grades 5 and 8)
We also refreshed our ELA ReadyGen Common Core – Grade 1 skill plan to showcase some of our newest skills!
New test prep plans
We’ve added new test prep skill plans:
- FastBridge aMath (Kindergarten-Grade 8)
- FastBridge aReading (Kindergarten-Grade 8)
Additional releases
New math and ELA videos
We’ve released 29 new math videos to expand our coverage! This includes 13 new videos for Grade 2 and 8 new videos for Grades 3 through Geometry. We’ve also released 8 new localized videos for Canada in Grades 6-8. The videos in this release cover topics such as:
- Balancing addition equations (Grade 2)
- Constructing the circumcenter or incenter of a triangle (Geometry)
We’ve also released 3 new phonics videos and 3 new middle school ELA videos to expand our coverage in existing grades. The videos in this release cover topics such as:
- Choosing the silent e word that matches the picture (Grade 2)
- Using commas with nonrestrictive elements (Grade 6)
In addition, we added Spanish captions to 66 more 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 new skills in elementary, middle, and high school. These newly supported skills include word problems with both addends unknown and word problems on lines of best fit.
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