IXL LearningReviews of ixl.com

I was at 90 smart score in math in measurements I got a real ruler to help because my finger are crooked so I got the ruler I put it on the side it said 4 in so it put 4 inches it said 5 it gives us stress I’m in 4th grade with adhd and ocd which makes it harder because my adhd kicks in at 930 and we have to do it at 930 I hate it it’s like pushing a boulder and falling down the hill and the smart scare fealls like if you dont get 100 your your not smart

I am mainly doing a review to bring IXL to 1.0. Every single kid I knows hate IXL and that is just a fact. I have to get my “Smart Score”. Smart score is like under is 100 is u r not smart. I got an 1150 in ela and my teacher is always grading me harder. All it does is bring kids depression and anxiety. You get one right and it gives like 5 and a wrong one subtracts like 10. I have punched my Chromebook hundreds of times and I WISH it would break. I am making a petition against this on change.org for this and other websites such as I-Ready and GoGuardian.

This site actually triggers me. So I'm an (almost) 6th-grade student and ive been forced to do IXL since i came to the US (from 3rd grade to now) in the country i was from i had to do normal paper homework, boring yes but better than this stupid site that im having to do thru out the time ive been in the US, and guess what? I've always used "Inspect" to "nuke" the site and remove every element, but last year they blocked it since we got a new principal, and you know what's worse? They say, "Our website sparks creativity." No, it doesn't. Need I say more about this dumb website that is forced on us? -By a (almost) 6th-grade student who has ADHD

When I was in 3rd grade, my math teacher assigned 2 IXLs as homework. Each night. If you are a student or a parent who has used IXL, you know that just one of those soul sucking, trauma inducing, “learning opportunities” is enough to make you cry for hours. It took me 3 hours to get through one, and by the time I was at the end, the questions were too hard for my mom to do. 3rd grade stuff by the way, not college level calculus. Soon, I developed depression. I was making suicide threats each week, self harm was a regular after I was done with my IXL. Not only did that thing give me pretty bad depression, it was like I was constantly compared to my peers. It took my friend 45 minutes to do one, while it took me 3 hours. See, the cruel thing about IXL is in the beginning, you think: I got this! I’m so awesome, this will take me no time! Then, some where down the line, you realize that it doesn’t matter how many question you get right, you’re still going to fail. I realize this sounds more like a psychological horror movie than a children’s math app, but it’s the truth. Please, I beg you to never download IXL, unless you want my experience.

one time I was doing ixl and my 'smartscore' was very low, so I tried to make the lessons faster. It got to a point that I was physically and mentally exhausted, I was sweating and everything, it was horrible (I'm also neurodivergent so it was way worse). I spent all of my time in class trying to complete that lesson. It got even worse when my teacher said that ixl counts in our grade. That's why my grade in that class is so low. Its not even me anymore, is the dehumanizing website.

I'm a freshman who uses IXL daily, I personally think its useless. I usually end up googling the answers just to get it over with because its so mentally taxing. It causes me genuine distress and takes HOURS to complete 1 lesson. Don't get me started on the points system, get one right? You get 1-3 points. Get 1 wrong? 10 points down the drain! I highly encourage anyone who values their mental health to NOT USE IXL.

I have been getting worse grades since my district has started requiring IXL. We are required to do 15 lessons per week and each lesson takes anywhere from 20mins-3hrs because of the horrible “Smart” Score system. If you get many questions correct you only get one point for them but if you get one question you lose 15 points. In my class if you do not do all 15 lessons for the week by the end of the school day at 1:30 on Fridays then my teacher will publicly humiliate you by writing your name on her board for everyone in your grade to see and if you are a good kid then she will be mad at you. The smart score system is really depressing and I have had a way less time study for test tests because it takes three hours a day just for one of my six classes homework and I also have other homework for the same exact class for every single lesson that we do

IXL is anxiety inducing. Their name is supposed to mean "I excel." But it doesn't make you excel at all, the only thing it does, is just give you anxiety, depression, and tears. Do not use this burning barrel garbage website. It's basically just a website built for kids to cry. Don't use it. It's for your own good.