IXL LearningReviews of ixl.com

IXL is the worst way to learn ever. It is the biggest disgrace to learning websites. It's the purgatory of math. You cannot answer a single question wrong without losing 30 points and then for one right answer you get like 5 back. Every wrong question requires at least quadruple to make up for it. Answering questions over and over is absolute hell. A simple mistake, typo, accidental submit causes immense damage to your smart score. Only causing even more questions required. It causes anxiety; you fear answering a simple question and risking 5 more questions worth of work. Simple packets or sheets of paper with problems are much more suited for learning compared to this garbage. Maybe more people would start enjoying math and learning if you didn't drag them through a repetitive hell each and every lesson.

It took me so many questions to get from 86 to 97, and once I got there and misclicked, I got sent back to 88, do you have ANY idea how annoying your SmartScore system is? Your questions aren't even clear. Honestly do better this time.

The smartscore system is unfair. wastes time. makes you tired and mad. All the reviews are bad. Maybe they should see what they are doing to people. Literally the definition of ignorance. ALL of the 5 stars reviews go on the top. THATS SO ANNOYING. that’s just not okay. I bet it’s just a bunch of employees of ixl or something or teachers who like to see their students suffer. if you push kids too hard then they’ll end up not learning anything! You stupid? Were you born under a rock? Don’t you know how it feels to be stressed and overwhelmed ? Don’t you know how it feels to have the PRESSURE of school? Or did you have a perfect little life all happy and healthy without having anything to worry about? Don’t you see all the bad reviews you have gotten online? Or you too busy looking at the good reviews? One good review, and you think your app is good. Grow up. This is unbelievable.

Ugh... This is the worst learning platform I’ve ever used. As a student, I absolutely do not recommend it. It teaches nothing, just throws questions at you without explaining anything. Get one right: “Yay, +2 smart score.” Get one wrong: “Oh, there goes all my progress, now I’m back to 22 points.” I can’t stand this platform.

Ixl makes it so that the learning that it advertises as fun, isn't. The repetive questions and fatal loss of smart score that plagues users that make it to the challenge zone make learning unfun, and that is why most of my teachers only make us do it up to 85% or do 10 minuntes of it.

Ixl was an incredibly traumatizing experience for me. I started using it in elementary school and luckily it stopped when I I entered high school. Ixl gave me su!cidal ideation due to how punishing the smart score system is. Teachers would only count them as completion grades, so even if you struggled for hours and had 99%, you still got an F. It was my first taste of true futility. I hope this company goes under.

Ok, to start off, i have ADHD, which makes it hard for me to focuz on repetitive tasks. Ixl makes it feel like torture because of that. The scoring system is rigged. Litterally. You have to reach 100 to do a whole lesson. For math and english, its smartscore. Which at the start goes up fast, dips slow. But over 70 smartscore it goes up 1-3 score per right question, and goes down up to 15 SMARTSCORE FOR 1 WRONG QUESTION. Science is a bit better. But instead of smartscore its like a video game. Get 2-3 right, collect tokens. But problem with the tokens is that sonetimes for getting a question right you only get half a token. Theres like 10 full ones. Sometimes your dont even get ONE. Ive talked to my friend who also uses ixl, and we agree english is trash. He said word for word he got a question saying 'Alan is very good at riding the bike. He is going to the tv show to compete this summer, as he just learnt how to do some new tricks on it.' And you had to pick what is was meaning to say - 1. Alan is good at riding bikes, 2. Alan is going to the tv show to compete. 3. Alan is learning new tricks. Isnt it all? Nope. Only that alan was going to the tv show. IXL has also got questions or info wrong, so when i answe right ixl still says NO. And the worst part is that its repetitive and strict, that i remember when i was young finding division and being so happy. Now ixl has crushed it so much that when i see it i try to avoid it. I remember being happy about achivements and learning, and now ive been destracted from ixl and trying to avoid it as a whole. Now since im year 6 and doing division takes me an hour or 2 for 1 lesson. ONE. That says a lot, right? Just.. dont use ixl. I told my dad and he said 'Well isnt it just tough? Work through it.'

I was able to assign the topics that individual students were weak in. As a whole, I could also assign topics that were curriculum related for the entire class. I encouraged students to reach a level of about 80% rather than trying to achieve a master level. Once they achieved a good score in many levels than they could return to previously assigned topics to try to achieve the master level. For students weak in a subject area and especially if they are self conscious, IXL gives them the opportunity to improve at their own speed and without the peering eyes of their classmates. As a teacher, IXL aids in assessing each student's level. The student learns as they continue doing more problems. It is this aspect that is the strength of this program. Last year my students completed 36,000 problems. I have helped many teachers set up and start this program. Presently, one of my teaching peers has a class that has surpassed 40,000 problems. Can you imagine marking 40,000 problems. Some of her students are attempting math problems 2 grade levels above their grade level. I am a huge believer in IXL and as an educator I do recommend the use of it. Again, the program allows weaker students to improve without pressure and high achievers to work above grade level. Not only can IXL be done in school but students can log in at home and further their education and even involve parents and or care providers.