Jackson C.
IXL does nothing for your experience.
I'm a sophomore in high school. My current school uses IXL, and it is infuriating. I've been using this site for about 3 years now, and I feel as if I've learned nothing. Firstly, the layout of the website is confusing and frustrating. Nothing has any description or reason to do what it does, so you're just sitting there clicking things until you end up doing a series of questions. Along with this, there's no indication on what you got wrong when you get it wrong. You also barely get any choice on what you learn. You can get a vague idea of what you're learning, but more often than not, each topic only has 15 questions. So you're sitting there doing questions over and over again, learning jack squat. Also, you never get any explanations of what you did wrong. It's like throwing a kid into a pool and telling them to swim, without ever teaching them beforehand. This would be fine if IXL was used as a testing site, but it's instead used as a daily activity. So it's nothing but frustrating. Not only that, but the questions are poorly written and even have mistakes on occasion. IXL does not care about students or teachers, they do not care about your education, all they care about is making money off of schools foolish enough to use this tragedy of a website. It's baffling to me that teachers make students use this site. It teaches nothing. If any teacher put themselves in the shoes of a student and spent 20 minutes of their time on this website, they would instantly realize what a mistake it was to include this in the curriculum. There is not a single upside. Do not use this.