IXL

IXL would have been great but, it makes no effort to actually improve the students that are using it. Unlike Khan Academy it does not have real time help options and a lot of time the explanations do not make sense. It has an extremely harsh points system that only gives about 3-4 points for correctness but takes close to 6 for a question input wrong. I have seen students have nearly 200 questions answered 2+ hours of time trying to pass and still give up at an 80. IXL causes more harm than good and has negative effects on the mental health of students. The image shown shows how long it took for a student to get to a 100 on their IXL through all 6 sessions

I have spent over an hour today on my homework on this, I am doing math IXL 8th grade L.2 L.4. I have lost many points because I forgot to put a variable in the answer but more than that, when I do get it wrong, It always tries to show how I was in the wrong but it does not ACTUALLY tell you why you got it wrong it just tells you the correct answer to said problem

Ixl is bad! All the time, when you get it wrong it pulls you down! On 90, if you get to 97, it will pull you like 20 points off. Ixl is bad for your mental health.

My son is being taught Math, Science, Reading, Social Studies, Language Arts (nearly every subject normally taught by a real live teacher in a classroom setting) by this mind-numbing, repetitive, anxiety-producing, stressful, non-rewarding, aggravating program. The point system is unfair and unjust by rewarding less for correct answers and penalizing you more incorrect answers. The questions are confusing and sometimes both subjective and objective; not based in actual facts. Teachers are not teaching the material but instead assigning multiple lessons on IXL for homework that take numerous hours at night to complete. This is the most dangerous style of teaching ever in the history of education. It promotes hatred for learning and sheer distress and anger during the process. We did not purchase this. My child has been forced to use this in every class at school. It has taken the place of an actual teacher.

I regret letting my parents download IXL for me and my brother to use as a learning tool. It's a complete waste of time and money. IXL is an anxiety/stress jail. Once you step in, you can't go out without throwing your device ACROSS THE ROOM. Sadly, I can't take my angry on IXL personally, so this review is basically summarizing WHY I AM ANGRY. Today when I was using IXL, I got a question wrong. Whenever you get a question incorrectly, it decreases by a HUGE AMOUNT. And whenever I get a question correctly, it increases a little bit. This is unfair and stupid. IXL needs to do better. IXL sucks. It's a waste of time and money. Don't bother mention this to your parents, they might download this painful, idiotic app. I RECOMMEND YOU NOT TO GET THIS FRICKING USELESS APP.

I am a student and who is forced to do IXL for school assignments. Luckily enough, I did not need to buy a subscription for this app, the school has me covered. Frequently I throw down the keyboard because I got one question wrong and it set me back five questions. Sometimes I sit for thirty minutes and I still did not get a score of eighty required by my teachers. I am no slacker in math, even though I am still in seventh grade I do eighth grade level assignments.

This app has literally made me cry multiple times. Please schools, don't ever use this "learning" app. First, The scoring system is terrible and rigged. Why? First, When you get ONE question wrong, your score gets deducted by 10-20 points, but when you actually do get one right, you get 2-4 added to your score. This is just unfair tbh. Once, I stayed up until 3 AM just on a few IXL lessons. Plus, this doesn't even help me at all, and it's incredibly boring. This shouldn't even be considered as a "learning app." I think that this is just as bad as I-Ready. Although there are explanations, they don't help, as they are too long to read at 3am, and sometimes aren't even related to the question. It usually takes me at least an hour to complete a single one. My entire class despises this "learning" app. It's also so overwhelming because they usually assign 3+ of these, usually more. They take at least about an hour each. When I was in 1st grade, I literally broke the tablet screen because of this app. Next the "ReWaRdS!"... I hate that they are called this. NOTHING is more rewarding then a digital picture or sticker, am I right? Also, the explanations sometimes don't even make sense or don't even help a TINY bit. I don't understand why teachers love it so much, even if it clearly doesn't help at all, but what I think is that IXL is simply an excuse for teachers to not have to manually print paper, assign it, and then grade it. My teachers already assign enough homework, but now I have to deal with this every week? None of their subjects are even mildly interesting and it just stresses kids out. I've seen multiple kids throw their devices and rage over a wannabe "learning" app. Teachers, if you wanna see your students cry and throw their devices, this is PERFECT FOR YOU! Otherwise, stay far away.

Ive been forced to use this site since third grade and its absolute $#*!. The smartscores are unfair, some of the questions awnsers are wrong, and its a stress factory! AT ALL COSTS, STAY AWAY FROM IXL!

Worst thing ever it's bad, its unfair, get one wrong and your at like -27 (hyperbole) its just bad don't use it, it will destroy your students mental health and pysical health is some cases, it also makes you forget everything directly after because how boring in this. Please schools don't use this

I'm a 6th grader and I have this for homework all day every time I always think it is rigged and it is because they always make it hard for us in 82-100 in our smart score IXL I$#*!ing hate you and this should never exist

THIS $#*!ING IXL TOOK SIX POINTS OF MY CHILD"S GRADE THIS $#*!ING LEARNING COMPANY BETTER FIX IT OR I WILL SHUT THIS COMPANY DOWN SO YOU BETTER FIX.YOU $#*!ING $#*! YOU HEAR ME.

The Grading system produces unfairness and is bias. To complete a stage, I would need to waste my energy on reading the text and answer the questions with pounds of headaches. For example: One day, I was doing all the right math calculations, I submit the correct numbers, but they marked it as wrong. To make matters worse, it was a GET 5 IN A ROW question. I kept inserting the correct digits but they kept implying that I am wrong. It was until the grading system said LAST CHANCE TO STAY IN STAGE 2 that I quiz doing the courses.

This is app will only make you mad, depressed, stressed, and make you cry.
First, I'd like to say how bad the scoring system is, when you get a question right you earn about 8-18 points and get deducted about 6-10 points, but once you get up to 80 it starts deducting 10's and 18's and when you get to 90 you only gain 2 points and lose 15-20 points.
Second, I'd also like to talk about what happens when you get a question wrong. When you get a question wrong it tells you why you got it wrong and gives a very long wordy explanation, which is sometimes very confusing and no help at all.
When your doing it for extended periods of time all it does is just make you mad and cry.
And for science it's even worse, if you get a single, SINGLE question wrong it resets all your progress, and if you keep getting it wrong you'll get moved back to the previous stage. I had a experience with that, I was stuck on it for a entire hour and answered over +400 questions, and when I finished, what was I rewarded with? A sticker for my profile and even longer and harder work. Please do not use this app it will turn you into a whole different person.

You shouldn't have to go back if you get a question wrong. It also makes it go up slower and slower as you get more correct. Absurd.

This app causes anxiety. I am a student and have used ixl as a required part of school curriculum since 3rd grade. It absolutely sucks $#*!. It causes low self esteem and depression with the smart score, and all of my classmates agree categorically that this app should be shut down.

I am a 5th grader, and my mom forces me to do IXL and when I get the fu*king question right, I get like 1-3 fu*king points; when I don't do it correctly, it takes away 5-9 points. What the FU*K!

The point system is rigged, when you get one wrong it doesn't tell you good enough how to get it right and if you get a lot of questions wrong, they start repeating and it doesn't even feel good when you finally finish it, because most of the time you don't even get any awards, which by the way, they are awful too. But even though IXL is awful, schools still use it for some ungodly reason.
-IXL, ruining childhoods since forever

The point system is unfair, making a lot of stress for students. Also, the explanations are trash as f##k, adding even more stress when students get questions wrong and then they see the same exact f##king thing over and over just cause they got one wrong. This site should be banned from all school districts forever and ever. (Seriously, just use khan academy).