IXL Learning Reviews 461

Worst system of education humankind has ever had the accident of creating. A seeming system where multiple answers exist and you are at the finish line, 98. Two more points. In your last leap to escape the tartarus your teacher has thrown into you, you click the answer. You are then simultaneouly thrown back 28 points because you phrased your written response a different but still valid way, but not the valid way this app is seeking. It encourages narrow ideas of right and expanding ideas of wrong, encourages prefectionism, and leads to anxiety. Any good parent should never force their child to use IXL lest they succumb to second-hand anger that tends to be just as if not more angry than the child who is being tortured with it. And any good school should never renew there contract with this god forsaken website that I find really wanting to jam my fist through the screen of. As a student who never uses AI for their work, I crack here because I just cannot be bothered to be stuck hovering around 82 points for 45 minutes until I memorize the correct answers for every question as opposed to learning anything. Mindset doesn't matter, even the Buddha would probably throw this computer against the wall if he was forced to use this. It is demotivating, it sucks at doing what it tries to do, and until (if or when) this garbage is reformed into a system where it finally functions like its supposed to, try to do literally anything besides IXL.

Ixl is so annoying and if I get something right I get like 3 points but if I get something wrong I lose like 14 points

IXl is possibly the worst learning website. When you try, it punishes you. And people just use Google and play games anyways. I could have a 96, 2 questions wrong, then it goes to a 58. It's the worst. They have to shut it down completely and FIX IT!!!

IXl is terrible. when you get into the "challenge zone" when you get a question right it gives you 1 MABEY 2 points. but when you get get a question WRONG you lose 20 point!! teacher please dont use!!

I lost so much smart score when I was at 99 percent :[

I HATE IXL WITH EVERYTHING I HAVE. I genuinely cannot put into words how bad this is for kids. IT'S NOT JUST THE SMART SCORE. The grade assumptions are extremely Innacurate. Also, the questions are offensive. IXL wants to help people but it only damages kids mental health and self esteem. IF YOU ARE A TEACHER OR PARENT DO. NOT. MAKE. YOUR. KIDS. USE. IXL. unless you hate them. IXL can also create technological damages, because when I’m on it, I want to throw my computer across the room.

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)

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.