IXL LearningReviews of ixl.com

Practicing math at home is important, but this platform makes the process far more tedious than it needs to be. Many problems that could be solved quickly on paper become unnecessarily time-consuming when forced through the online interface. The format often requires multiple steps and input methods that slow students down instead of letting them focus on the math itself. While the system may make it easy for teachers to assign and track homework without grading everything manually, the experience for students can be frustrating. Tasks that should take only a few minutes can take much longer because of the platform’s structure. Instead of reinforcing concepts, the process can feel repetitive and discouraging. Math practice should help students build confidence and understanding. When the format creates unnecessary friction, it risks doing the opposite—leading to frustration and making students dislike the subject rather than improving their skills.

I am in the 6th grade and this app sucks as it doesnt really teach you anything. You only answer questions multiple time in a row. And the "smartscore" YOUR TELLING ME THAT IF I DONT GET A 100 IM DUMB?!?! This app has caused me so much stress at one point i refused to do it to avoid that stress and got a 48 on that assignment. One time i had to do it for homework and it caused litteral tears i was so upset i went to my grandparents and they felt terrible and sad to where they didnt make me do it that night. If i could give this less than 1 star I WOULD. If you are a teacher or a parent seeing this please dont make your kids do this torture.

Ok ixl this is bad. Im a 7th grader and most of my teachers use this "learning platform" and instead of it making me think "im good at this" instead it gives me a "this is torture" mindset and i genuinly think that this website has given me depression because im at a smartscore of 79 almost done... Then get one wrong and im back down to 57 smartscore. And most of my teachers give like 5 or more ixls per week to the class and im still on the second one because im getting questions wrong and getting set at 0 while i was at 50 smartscore

IXL is a literal HELL.When my Teacher tells me to go on IXL, I see my SmartScore go down to a 50. It's like it's telling me in my mind to just quit entirely. I still want to go to Collage and I wanna get my degree, But it takes off 10-15 points and it makes me feel like I'm worthless and stupid.

Its not a bad website but the questions are repetitive, the explination is just telling me the right answer with no explanation, and once you finish a topic, you dont see it again. The smart score adds not a bad amout of points in the beggining but by the time you get to a 60ish smartscore, it only ads a few points to the score. By the time its 80, it only adds one or two. The challange zone at the end once you get to 90 adds one point for right answers and takes off 15 ish. I was at 99 once and I got wrong and 16 points were taken off. Im doing an english thing beause im forced to, I'm at 294 questions, almost 4 total hours on this (not in one sitting), and only a 57 smart sccore because THE EXPLINATIONS DONT HELP! I was trying to do chemisty of water and Ive done 30 questions when i should only need 9 because when i get something wrong, THE EXPLINATION IS USELESS!! I've spent 160 hours on this website and only feel worse about myself.

IXL is way too strict. Their grading system is so strong, like if you are on score 90 for example, and you get a question wrong, they take like 10-15 points off. But if you have a low score like 15, they only take like 1-5 points off, which is not fair for kids at higher levels.

IXL is useless. The trauma it gives after you drop from 90 to 79 smart score will want to make kids break everything in sight. I remember breaking down in tears every single week when my teacher assigns the hardest IXL that are way above the level for kids in my grade. I lose all of my hard earned progress after just simply missing a single answer by the slightest. Their explanation make zero sense and is utterly useless for a child's learning. Honestly this is just a cash grab used to torture kids.

I'm SO glad I stopped using this years ago, the system for getting an answer wrong is just horrible, and it made me feel like I had an extra chromosome, on top of that, I had a temper and had anger issues at that time, it was to where I smashed my computer monitor because I was so angry, my mom would always get mad at me, and because of that, my anger just forced me to not look at the "helping examples" times I did I barely manage to pass it without getting a score that's just a spit to the face, not sugarcoating anything I'm saying. (Dont mind the "date of experience" My experience was nearly 3-5 years ago)