What’s new on IXL – January 2023

IXL has compiled a list of their top new features to help you students and staff get the most out of IXL.

Keep reading below for a roundup of releases from the past month, including video tutorials for English language arts skills, mobile support for IXL games, iPhone app support for the Real-Time Diagnostic, and more! To stay current with our latest updates, follow IXL on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

Table of contents

• Major releases
  • ELA video tutorials
    • ELA videos for pre-K and kindergarten
      IXL has added video tutorials for many of our Reading Foundations skills to help students learn how to read in a fun, engaging, and effective way. 
• Feature updates
  • Real-Time Diagnostic for iPhone
    • Learners can enter the Diagnostic arena on IXL’s iPhone app, and pinpoint their grade-level proficiencies in math and ELA wherever they are.
  • Mobile-friendly IXL games
    • Students can now play IXL games on mobile devices through a browser, giving them a new way to have fun and level up their knowledge on the go!
  • Games tracked in Live Classroom
  • Printable Student Quiz Results report
  • New Snapshot Growth report export options
  • Progress & Growth report date filter
• Skill plan updates and new skills
  • American Samoa standards skill plans
  • New math skill plans
  • New ELA skill plans
  • New ELA book study skills
  • New math skills
  • New science skill
• Additional releases
  • AU edition permanent skill IDs
  • New math video tutorials
  • Canadian video tutorials: grades 5 & 9
  • More math skills with Spanish support

Major releases

English language arts video tutorials

Lights, camera, action: English language arts video tutorials have arrived! IXL now has videos for nearly half of our pre-kindergarten and kindergarten Reading Foundations skills. These tutorials help students learn how to read in a fun, engaging, and effective way. They provide research-based direct instruction for early literacy skills like phonemic awareness, phonics, and sight words, and they align with the science of reading.

Like IXL’s math video tutorials, these videos can be accessed from the practice page of their associated skills by clicking the “Watch a tutorial” link. Check out a few examples below:

• Which two words start with the same sound?
• Read sight words set 1: ate, he, of, that, was
• Choose the correct digraph

We will continue to release more pre-K and kindergarten videos in the coming months.