IXL Learning Reviews 220

It's awful.
it doesn't give explanations on some questions and takes too many points on incorrect answers.

Date of experience: October 12, 2020

I GOT STUCK IN ONE LESSON FOR 1 HOUR AND IT GAVE ME NO EXPLANATION TO WHY I GOT IT WRONG AND IT MADE BE QUESTION MY EXISTENCE. NEVER USE THIS, USING IT LEADS TO MISERY NOT LEARNING

Date of experience: October 07, 2020

Alright, it just sucks. It drops too many points and some questions don't give explanations.

Date of experience: October 07, 2020

My teen uses this as a practise tool to consolidate his learning and he LOVES it. YES, it has the occasional glitches (even real life teachers have those!) and YES it's frustrating not getting to 100 smartscore every time so my teen settles for 80. In fact, it's helped my teen stop trying to be a perfectionist. Perfectionism is counterproductive, especially to a kid. We use other resources too, but as a practise tool I'd recommend it. It also explains 'why' when you get an answer wrong which some other sites don't, so you can learn from it too.

Date of experience: October 06, 2020

Well I just saying ixl is stupid because when I get the answer correct it say wrong ixl must of hired dumb ass employies

Date of experience: September 29, 2020

This is not an easy app program. But the difference it has made to my children’s learning during lockdown is. Brilliant ( yes you drop a lot of points when you get an answer wrong) but it’s helping them no ends and making them want to get 100 percent and receive awards when they do well Bravo IXL.....

Date of experience: September 15, 2020

Date of experience: September 09, 2020

IT IS SO BAD I HAVE LIGIT BEEN STUCK ON MY LAST SECTION FOR MORE THAN 35 HOURS AND OVER 1000 QUESTION NO CAP IT MAKES ME CRY ALSO THE SMARTSCORE IS JUST A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF TORCHER IF U GET SOMETHING RIGHT YOU MIGHT GO UP A POINT BY 1 MAYBE IF U ARE LUCKY 2 BUT IF YOU GET ONE WRONG IT IS -10 POINTS FOR YOU ALSO EVERY SINGLE EXPLANATION IS BASICALLY YR 19999999 STANDARD PLS DONT RUIN YOUR CHILDS LIFE WITH THIS USE SOMETHING ELSE LIKE KHAN ACADEMY JUST DONT EVEN MENTION THIS TO YOUR CHILD COZ THE DAY THEY START IS THE DAY THEY ARE ENDED IT SAYS I WOULD GIVE THIS 1 STAR BUT HONESTLY IT IS A 0. I WOULD NOT RECCOMEND THIS TO ANY PARENT AND IGF U DONT LISTEN YOUR CHILDREN ARE GOING TO NEXT UP HATE YOU AND NEVER LOVE YOU AGAIN.

Date of experience: August 31, 2020

Terrible. My kids have had traumas over this terrible program and I was in shock to find to it was such a punishing system. My daughter had 99 'smartscore' and got it wrong and was sent back to 85. Not recommended.

Date of experience: August 15, 2020

this is a horrible app
i get to 99 i go down to 88
u lose more points than u gain
i get frustrated over this app
very bad app
1 star

Date of experience: August 10, 2020

ixl ruin my education and its disappoint, I get up 86 point and it get down 71 for submit wrong answer and my dad is mad at me for skip percent numbers. Ixl I hate you and I wish you shutdown.

Date of experience: August 01, 2020

perfect my childs school recomenede it for my child u annoying people dont get it

Date of experience: July 25, 2020

it is a waste of time and the explanation are rubbish and i feel so sorry for my brother he is on the last skill on his year and has been on it for 9 BLOODY HOURS. and 500 questions he has done. don't even get me started on the explanation. my bro is doing rotation around a point and the only thing it says for the explanation is "ROTATE THE ANGLE" what do you mean just rotate it. they are far more better websites that i recommend such as Seneca learning ,khan academy, GCSE pod.( kids have broken their devises because of this and even cried.) i definitely did. SURE IXL IS STILL BENIFITING YOU AND I HAVE IMPROVED ALOT BUT IT IS SO DEPRESSING.

Date of experience: July 23, 2020

I can't log into there website since a week ago now

Date of experience: July 21, 2020

My daughter says this app horrible and I don,t think she,s lieing some time I see her crying over it brakes my heart to see her that way maybe she,s exaggerating a littel but I know it's hard for her the information they give the child is pointless she dosnt get it .it hard for me to even understand it and I just wont to help her I have to go too Google to do I it wich sucks AND I PAY GOOD MONEY FOR IT!!! I do not recommend geting this tri some thing else or else your kid WILL stop love you I can tell from experience so please dont

Date of experience: July 16, 2020

I think IXL is a good program, provided it's used correctly and with the correct expectations. I've started both my kids on this and they are progressing very well. Yes, both have been very frustrated at times, but mastery of any subject/task is not easy. The expectation should be for the student to achieve 80-90% smart score in their grade level to be considered "very good/competent" in the subject. I see from most of the reviews that students are getting frustrated when trying to achieve 100%, which is mastery of the subject. Unless the expectation is for the student to get 100% on all math and english tests 100% of the time, then mastery isn't really the goal. Such achievements can only be made by a very small percentage of people (if all students in a class got perfect on tests, all the time, then we'd be wondering if the tests wern't a little too easy and the teacher somewhat bad).

If your a parent/educator, don't expect that you can just plop down a kid, walk away and expect them to be perfect. For the kids to learn, it still takes a little to a lot of effort on the adults part. It requires sitting with the learner when they're struggeling and helping with the "teaching" part.

Date of experience: July 14, 2020

Date of experience: July 14, 2020

Horrible. The first 50 points are OK. They are reasonable. Then after it gives you 7 points and when you get it wrong you lose 5. Then at 80-90 You get 1 or 2 points and you lose from 11 to 20! How outrageous? This app has given me depression which I have recovered from. Its bullfuck, don't download it. Its costs money btw.

Date of experience: July 11, 2020

I have been forced to use it for quite some years now ,it is bad. It discourages you from learning and instead of teaching you to get it right next time it deducts a ridiculous amount of points from your current amount. you need 100 points to pass and if your on 99 and get a question wrong it takes you back to 88 get another one wrong, 76, another? 65 and that's only 4 questions when it takes you almost 30 questions to get to 99.

Terrible really I've grown to despise it.

Date of experience: July 09, 2020

I am a 8th grader and my opinion is that IXL is so frustrating!!! Like, when I get to 93 I bump down to 84!!! One time I had to do one IXL skill for A WHOLE DAY!!! This is so frustrating and I don’t recommend it!!!

Date of experience: July 07, 2020