ixl Reviews
Education

IXL

1.6/5 - based on 43 reviews

IXL Overview

IXL has a 1.6-star rating, derived from feedback provided by 43 customers. In the Education category, it secures the 68th position out of 616 companies.

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Phone
(855) 255-8800

Address
777 Mariners Island Blvd., Suite 600, San Mateo, California, 94404, United States

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IXL Reviews

1/5

Cancellation

Please cancel my prescription order this not the correct program for my. Three year old son. Thank you

1/5

To tell how good it is.

If you answer a question correct, you get only a few points like 6 or something. But if you make a MISTAKE, you lose a lot of points. And the more mistakes you make, the more points you lose. I also don't like that after the first question answered, you can't go look at explanation a few times again. That means you have to search on Google if you can't remember the explanation. the explantion. the explenation. explenation explenation

3/5

Issue accessing

When on ixl Joshua is being prevented from doing his unlimited practise that was paid for. Someone is playing with the screen obstructing him from practising.

4/5

IXL issues

My IXL would not let my daughter go pass 40% mark even though our membership was active. Every time she went on to practice it gave her the message that the practice session is over

5/5

I needed help.

I wasnt pissed. Didnt realized I called through this site. I asked for my free trial to be extended and the representative was more than happy to help me. I was very satisfied!

1/5

For horribleness

gives the wrong answers and takes away to many points and gives to little points.... I absolutely hate this thing....

1/5

Overpriced and barley teaches anything

It costs like about $13 I think and from my experience it teaches 2nd Grader stuff and shows that the logical answers for paragraphs are wrong. It is overpriced, and it's basically just a stupid scam. Unfair systems and overpriced learning. I learn better from a dictionary from 1998 than this.

1/5

Group registration

Respected sir My family members 3 kids from different classes want to make REGISTRATION process. For that's DETAIL I need sir

1/5

Scoring and feeling

IXL MAKES ME FRUSTRATED. SPAM IXL AS ONE STAR REVIEWS TO GET I BANNED. That is what I would do. When I get one question wrong I get 9-16 points removed and when I get one right I get 3-6 points. Do not use IXL at all costs.

1/5

Scoring

When I go to IXL I get 3 points for one question right and about 10 for one wrong. THIS IS BAD. DO NOT USE IT AT ALL COSTS.

1/5

Horrifying site

The math the site is using is from the 1900s they'll tell you what you got wrong and how you did it in contradicting ways I have really thought about killing myself because of this math site no human could subject themselves to this and want to live

1/5

Its Unfair

My child has been doing IXL, I thought it would be a good learning experience due to the advertising. Whenever I check on my kid doing IXL I saw his laptop smashed on the floor with the screen showing IXL and him feeling stressed I knew I had to stop IXL. I canceled the subscription, and now we use Prodigy as it's much better. IXL's customer service also NEVER RESPONDS.

1/5

Annoying and possibly already obsolete in terms of encouragement

Firstly yes, I am a student who uses this in late high school. The bad part about this is that when it may be efficient for diagnosing your skills, such as in language arts, it struggles to really push a more achievement-feeling approach. By that, I mean when you get answers correct, it gives you a simple good job with a loading screen that is the exact same as with when you get it wrong, which doesn't feel as rewarding to students/kids when that is what it is designed for. On the other hand, it has a generally small rating system in the language arts department as well as diagnosing high school students with middle and elementary school level recommendations, which is just absurd. Yes this may be used in special education classes, but that doesn't mean they should make the higher functioning ones within the group feel like they need to redo elementary. Honestly it can be useful at times, but it's bad in the way that it repeats questions often until you get it right and then even repeats it after you DO answer correctly, which means you can complete an assignment with ease since I have witnessed some questions repeat 5 times within 45 minutes. Lastly it can pause time if you are simply away from the system for under a minute and doesn't resume when you come back to a page or click on an answer.

1/5

Resolution

IXL contacted me immediately and we worked through the problem. I am satisfied with their prompt replies.

1/5

Bad smartscore interface

When I am on 90,and I get it wrong it shoots you down to 80 or lower but when you get it correct it only gives one point.

1/5

It sucks

I'm a 2nd grader and IXL is a K-12 private US online learning program. Though the name of this incorporation suggests that it allows students to excel, it really does quite the contrary. Though at first, the user interface may seem very kid-friendly and fun, do not be deceived by these simple marketing tricks. As shown on Common Sense Media, out of 63 parent reviews, the average is 2 stars out of 5. Out of 236 kids (11+) reviews, the average is 1 star out of 5. An anonymous 11-year-old student writes about how it made him cry. This helped almost 100 people and over 300 people agreed. Other reviews from students state that IXL made them lose confidence and feel negative. Many parents state that they do not see their children improving, but instead seem to be losing interest in math. The core of why IXL is not the ideal learning program is because of the lack of a sense of self-accomplishment and motivation. Other learning programs such as Bee star and Khan Academy have a source of competition and achievement, whereas IXL does nothing of that kind but resorts to a punishing method of answering question after question under the pressure of a timer and a score counter. In addition, when a question is answered incorrectly, the explanation is often much too confusing to understand or is seemingly completely out of context. On top of that, you lose a considerable amount of points. The ratio of points earned when answered correctly and points lost when answered incorrectly is unbalanced. In conclusion, IXL is a program not worthy of its name. It places stress and pressure on the shoulders of young students looking to learn. Although money is irrelevant in this context, the motivation to acquire knowledge is. And thus, to the bright youth of this new generation, IXL Learning is a hindrance rather than an assistance.

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