IXL

I would rather eat a ghost pepper every day for a week straight.

In all seriousness though, all IXL does is make it stressful to do anything. All of the reviews here are right. Its horrible to make students feel bad about themselves for getting ONE question wrong and loosing ten whole "smart points". Its horrible to even be giving students "smart points" because a student with low points could consider themselves dumb which in itself is horrible for mental health. It doesn't teach you anything useful, and if you are looking for alternatives Prodigy is much better.

My teacher is making me and my fellow classmates do 2 hours and 30 minutes of IXL each week for the rest of the entire year. It counts for over 40% of our overall grade. Every time I finish my IXL homework I am always in a worse mood than I was before. Its "smart score" is rigged and broken. No dark mode, either. Please just don't use this website, and especially avoid how my teacher uses it.

Almost every day i have to do it and right now i am in tears because of this stupid website that brings dawn my motivation when i use the website every thing about it is stressful from the points to the questions and its not like three are real instructions like what the absolute!

As a 6th grader that is required to use this, the website is mediocre. It is certainly better than I-Ready, but still has plenty of flaws.
My biggest problem is the smart scoring. My math teacher makes us go to at least 70 SS for each lesson, and let's us choose whether we go higher. The thing is: it is super hard to rise it. Get one question wrong? Lose 9 SS! Get one question right? Get 2 SS! There was this one lesson that everyone in my English class had to take an hour for, which is my entire period duration! We are even advanced, and it was a fifth grade standard.

IXL is so discouraging! If a kid gets 3 wrong answers in a row it takes them back too far and makes them repeat the questions, including the ones they already answered correctly. For a child with processing delays or test anxiety this is awful. It's all about the score with IXL, they are not allowed to get any wrong or it's considered incomplete.

Some of you might know this, but I just figured out a trick to destroy IXL. Below your smart score, you will find a little pencil that looks like an edit sign. Click on it and it will give you options of a pencil, highlighter, and eraser. Click ur choice and scribble as much as you want. Click the tool again if you want to change the color of your tool. I spent way too long scribbling on my problems rather than doing them, so do this at your own risk. ;)

I really hope IXL reads this, but it really needs more explaining. I'm working on one step addition and subtraction with decimals and it does not explain anything. It literally says, "simply the left", and it leaves me confused asl, I was struggling. Please fix this. I don't have a photo to prove it, but js this review should at least reach them.

Most teachers think that Ixl is a good thing for kids but studies have shown that it can increase anxiety can hurt your Mental Health. Most children who have gone though this know "IXL only make a student or user want to get through the lesson as fast as possible without helping them learn it, the answering system will make you upset and if you get one question wrong once you hit around 60, it makes you go down at least 15 points." This is about my self the Ixl i'm on made me cry and it was very hard

Not sure why the teachers love this so much because all it does for students is stress them out. Considering if they are required to complete and master an IXL that they are struggling on, the students can become stressed and fearful if they don't complete it and get a bad grade on it. Next, Why would you think making the grading system score on here the way it is.? It's really ridiculous it does not push or motivate a student to keep trying if they go from 75 points to 64 points. By far Math seems like the hardest category to get past on here. I don't recommend ANY math teachers to use this because it does not help students gain more understanding of the subjects. This is because if you tell them they must "master it" that's all they're gonna think about such as "If I get an 100 on this I'll pass". I honestly think that IXL just needs to be completely redone because this app is not like how it used to be, and it's an eyesore.

When I use ixl, sometimes it can be an easy and quick assignment but, more times than others, its is so stressful and causes students to feel dumb or they would get behind on work as well. Especially when you reach the challenge zone, if you get one right, your score goes up by 3 and when you get it wrong,it takes your score by almost 10.

Hello Everyone,
I'm a parent of two kids, both of whom use IXL for class.
IXL can feel like punishment/torture for kids who don't understand the subject. I feel like IXL is made to prepare for a test, not to learn.

It's hard to get 100; when you get a question correct, you go forward less than 5 points, and when you get a question wrong, you go back 5–10 points. They make you simplify, which is probably very annoying. The point system is unfair, and can give kids stress and anxiety, but the good thing about it is that it shows kids how bad their grades can get if they don't know a subject.

What worries me, is that my kids told me the explanations are really confusing, and you have to go to YouTube or another website to actually learn what they're trying to teach you.

Thank you for listening,
A somewhat concerned parent

Guys its booty cheeks i wish schools had a better way of letting us learn this is so $#*! and also i need a dark mode shi tragic numatic

Instead of taking away points from your smart score let try the question again. I take hours to do one lesson because ixl words their questions weirdly. I don't recommend it. Its better then I ready but still

Very bad site when I get the question wrong it gives away points... Not fair I got mad about ixl's Smart score. Must be removed. But Good news in 2020 the founder of ixl made a new learning program awesome!

I don't hate IXL. I rate it a 4 stars for quality, 1 star for service, value and returns. It's just, well, boring. The point system isn't all that bad unless you're doing an IXL on long division.
Pro Tip: If you've practiced for two hours and still can't get 100, your teacher will see the 2 hours of practice and likely give you credit.

Have to do 5 skills a day before I get ANY screen time, this screen time is also taken from my singing lessons. This awful app made me cry and a skill takes like 1 hour to do if you're good at it. Doesn't teach you anything because it explains in the most confusing way possible! Please stay away unless you want your students or parents to hate you.

This review section got turned into a trash fire xd. ...

This site has a couple of problems... Adding a space to answers will usually net you a response that it was wrong despite the numbers in your answer being correct and that can really put you in a bad mood.

The other thing is that It does not have an outright guide on how to do each lesson before you start answering questions so It doesn't do very much in the respects of actually teaching you without a school teacher over your shoulder / virtual meet...

That's all my beef about it really.

My kids (10 and 13) are forced to use this program for their school. All I can say about it, is that this is the perfect way to cause your kids stress and anger when doing their homework. They get awarded less points for correct answers than are deducted for incorrect answers. There have been many times when my children were nearly at 100 percent but because of just a few mistakes they ended up with a very low score. Assignments can end up taking far too long due to this rigged system. This whole learning program is set up to cause kids to feel anxious about getting a wrong answer because of the ridiculous amount of points deducted. If you want to listen to your kids scream and cry in frustration, I recommend IXL. Otherwise stay far away!

I could never get a question correct! I was assigned it every night for homework and threw a fit because I had answered 47 questions and only at 28 percent. IXL is all about points, NOT MATH OR WHATEVER SUBJECT YOU ARE WORKING ON!

I don't like IXL.com! It is the most stressful, toxic and stupid thing ever! My father makes do it everyday, I don't wanna do it anymore, I literally cut through my exercise to write the truth about this sit/app.
I sometimes cry because the exercises are impossible, some are easy but others are absurdly unattainable to the hundredth %! I started IXL when I was 5, and I am now 12 and tired of doing it!

Ixl is a horrible frustration trigger for me and many other students. Doing an IXL assignment can lead to tears breakdowns and uncontrollable anger. Kids with anger management problems in my school have hurt themselves because they get too angry. Now this is just my experience as a student. If you're a school district reading this, I do not recommend it. When me and my peers get assigned an IXL it's a load of stress that we do not need in our lives.

This is an absolute horrible program design for lazy teachers that want to coast through life. This does not teach children anything other than frustration and demoralization, any teacher or school that uses this program has a lot of soul-searching to do they're doing more harm than they know

IXL just wastes your time and gives unnecessary stress. The "SmArt sCorE" is rigged. You earn only 3 points for answering a question correctly and it deducts 10 entire points if you answer wrong. I spent hours on one annoying IXL. Overall, it's just annoying to do IXL. We kids get stressed. We are sometimes so annoyed that the bang or smash or desks or laptops.