IXL

Imagine going to school, talking and laughing with your friends, and the days going well. a few hours/periods go by and then you sit down in math where you have to do a site that punishes you for making a mistake, and it doesn't teach you how to do it correctly it just makes you feel mad and depressed. Believe it or not, there is a site out there that does do that, and that site is called IXL. If you read the kid and parent reviews for the site on Common Sense Media you will find that few like the site and even fewer find it helpful, heck the site has made some kids suicidal! The site also has a yearly fee of $79.00 PER STUDENT! Schools that use the site are losing thousands to a greedy company that doesn't help anyone, that money could be used for, New books, Teacher training, New sports equipment, ETC!

It just stinks don't bother with it

It's absolutely infuriating. My twelve-year-old daughter thinks it's awful. Especially the challenge mode. It is so unforgiving. Even if you get one question wrong you have to restart from the beginning. This is especially annoying when you are doing difficult alegerbra problems.

On several occasions, it has occurred to me how horrendous the IXL program is for kids hoping to learn. The system of getting a question right bringing your "Smart Score" up by minuscule amounts and getting a question wrong decreasing your "Smart Score" by drastic amounts does nothing but harm one's feelings of self-confidence ad self-appreciation. A seemingly simple 30 minutes of IXL has become torture for children everywhere where IXL can be accessed (see kids reviews). IXL has caused disruption in sleep schedules and the ridiculous and sometimes multi-stage workloads seem torturous to overcome for any and all that are required to complete them. And IXL decreases school morale, so imagine if schools used their budgets on things that nourished, encouraged, or improved students' surroundings and the ways students felt about themselves, as that has been severely decreased by the massive and sickening garbage heap that is IXL. I hope several people see this and find this helpful. Please recognize and act on this call to action to remove IXL

A waste of time. When you get to 70 and above you get a couple points and loose like 10. When my Daughter's school started making her use ixl she absolutely hated it and asked me for help. I have never been that smart so when we got up higher and the questions where harder and we got 1 question wrong it would send us back like 10 points. Waste of time don't even bother.

THIS APP SUCKS. Its suppose to help children, but all it does is gives kids anxiety and depression. 0/10. Deffo won't choose to use IXL if I had to choose.

IXL is one of, if not the worst learning websites out there. It flips children's days upside down and can cause genuine breakdowns and suicidal thoughts. My 12-year-old says that they hate it for all of their life and it makes them want to kill themself. If a learning app strays that far from being positive, it isn't a learning app. IXL is also extremely unforgiving with the point system and could take certain kids up to over an hour to complete a single activity. In all seriousness, this app needs to be either drastically improved or flat-out banned from schools worldwide.

If I could rate this lower I would, I would rate it in the negative. https://www.change.org/p/tobin-engelhard-shutdown-ixl-for-public-use-fo…, read this and you might agree with me. I say 18+ because no child should undergo this level of torture.

IXL SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my teacher makes me use it for school and it drives me crazy. so please NEVER us this app.

It is OK to have 1 or 2 errors in a test that you can get around, but sometimes you just cannon get over them. I had a student who tried a Spanish test full of errors, so bad that almost every question is an error. They wrote something worse than Spanglish: "I comparo" -> which is total nonsense. I math it is a little better, but -x^2-11x was marked wrong, saying the correct answer was -11x-x^2, although the math standard for polynomials is from the higher-order term to lower. In a pyramid vs. prism calculation about formulas, the student cycled through all 3 of their answers and all three were wrong! They kept changing the "correct" answer to something else. To be fair, other auto-graded systems are generally full of errors too but the worst part is that it repeatedly insists on the wrong answer instead of sensing something is wrong when students are getting it wrong (actually right) every time and send the question for some intelligent human review. Not sure why schools are using sites like this. If more parents and students can complain to schools and teachers, hopefully, things will improve. Or maybe they are too lazy and just want such Artificial Stupidity to rule the lives of students.