IXL LearningReviews of ixl.com

So I am pretty good at math, and I went to math field day every year up from fourth grade (I’m in 6th grade now) and as soon as I started having to do more ixl in middle school, I got fourth instead of the second place I usually get. I was an alternate. Lucky for me, the kid that got third place went to an event called march madness. So that is why I got to go. Ixl gives you a lot of disconfidence and it makes you not believe in yourself. It gives you extreme anxiety. It says it is supposed to make you feel like oh, I can do this! But in reality, it makes you feel like I’m so stupid! I can’t even figure this stuff out! And every time I get a problem correct, when my score is 79, my score goes up to 82. But at 99, if I get a problem wrong my score goes down to 87. An also the term “SmartScore” makes you feel dumb and stupid if you don’t master the skill (or get it to 100)

As a long-term tutor for Wyzant which is now part of IXL, I filed a non-payment complaint after a student failed to honor a lesson request -- Wyzant turned me down for just and fair compensation, so I appealed that wrongful decision to IXL, Wyzant owner -- but have never heard a single word about my appeal. Wyzant used to be a fair and just tutoring platform, all of which has changed -- now they only pay us tutors twice a month, and in my cancellation case, NO COMPENSATION AT ALL -- Shame on Wyzant & IXL!

IXL suckssss. This cite needs to be deleted of the face of the earth. This smart score ahh thing doesn't know how to work. I was at a 96 and it brought me down to a 58 when I got 2 questions wrong. They need to update this shit.

ixl sucks so much butt. im an autistic (almost) 8th grader and whenever I'm at like 98 smartscore and I get ONE thing wrong I go back to 79 or 81🫩 and it's so stressful and tiring for me. I cry in class sometimes when this happens because it's so overwhelming. use delta math or khan academy instead,those are better alternatives!

I enrolled it last year and didn't want to renew it but they took 245 dollars from my account for renewal which was more than double the amount I enrolled. Worst experience

This is the most frustrating program I've ever used. I'm an advanced student who's pretty good at math, and I've been told I'm a fast learner, but this program does absolutely NOTHING it claims to do. I wish I could give 0 stars, but that's impossible. Oh wait, is 1 minus 1 not 0? Sorry IXL, obviously I'm stupid and your program is absolutely perfect. I've done actual research before writing this, so everything I type is based on my and other people's experiences. I hate this program so much, it's very glitchy and gives me markdowns for mistakes, like yesterday when I wrote "4 - 2 = 2" as a review, and it said it was wrong, saying the correct answer is "2 = 4 - 2". The "SmartScore" system is stupid, all the way down to its name. Getting a question correct from 0 - 80 gives big rewards for correct answers and small penalties for wrong answers, but from then on, a correct answer only gives 1 - 2 points and a wrong answer takes away 7 - 15 points. When you get one wrong, it says that it explains what you did, but it's very wrong. It adds unnecessary steps and doesn't truly explain what you did wrong. I'm 13 and in 7th grade, but I'm taking advanced 8th-grade math, and when my teacher assigned IXL to try to teach us scientific notation, I sat at my computer trying to get 100 as he assigned, but not a single person in my class even finished it, and everyone just rage quit. I cry more often because of IXL than I do with diagnosed depression. 0/5 stars, I would never recommend this hell to my worst enemy.

This app was created to be a platform for children to learn and gain knowledge. But in reality It creates anxiety to the student and could potentially lead to the user gaining depression. Along the topic of depression students may feel that they are losing knowledge and becoming dumber, when on ixl there is a point system in the beginning of the specific skill you gain 5-8 points for correct answers but when you hit the 50s you only gain 2-3 points but when answering incorrectly you lose 10-13 points. This point system on there "Skills" causes stress and anxiety to the student.

This is such a terrible app and it seems like we the students are the only ones that see it. Everyone else is brainwashed by this foolish dumb app. They say their goal is to “motivate kids” but the only thing they’re motivating is to skip school. Ixl makes learning harder and feels more stressful. This app sucks. This app is lying to your face.