Unlocking Student Potential: A Deep Dive into IXL's Student Dashboard Features

IXL is a powerful online learning platform that offers personalized experiences for students in grades Pre-K to 12. IXL provides engaging content across multiple subjects, including math, language arts, science, and social studies, with interactive features to keep students motivated. From personalized learning paths to comprehensive analytics, IXL equips students and educators with the tools they need to succeed. This article explores the key features of the IXL student dashboard, demonstrating how it can be leveraged to enhance learning outcomes.

The Student Dashboard: A Personalized Learning Hub

From the moment students sign into IXL, they automatically land on their student dashboard, where they can see exactly what to work on next, and can celebrate all of the progress they’ve made so far. The dashboard is the homepage for learners on IXL. From there, students can jump directly into working on skills, enter the Diagnostic arena, see their awards, and more!

The student dashboard is designed to be a one-stop-shop for students to keep track of what they should be working on and how they’re progressing so far. This learning homepage provides learners with specific skills to work on based on their assignments and previous practice.

"What Should I Work On?" Section

From their personal dashboard, it’s easy for learners to see exactly what they should be working on next. Skills suggested by their teachers or parents are front and center, so they can quickly dive into their current assignments. Any skills that students have already mastered or reached proficiency in will be automatically hidden to help keep them on task. Students can also see all of the skills they’ve recently worked on, and jump back in to continue learning. Learners can also enter the Diagnostic arena or launch into their personalized study plans straight from their dashboard.

Visualizing Progress: "How Am I Doing?" Section

The “How am I doing?” section of the dashboard breaks down learners’ time on IXL into a couple of easy-to-understand stats and fun awards. These are a great jumping-off point for goal setting around regular practice. The dashboard helps students visualize all that they’ve accomplished! They’ll see how many questions they’ve answered and skills they’ve learned each week, motivating them to excel even more. The dashboard helps students to get excited about learning and encourages them to celebrate their achievements. Finally, when students are part of an IXL Leaderboard contest, they can track their progress on their dashboard!

Setting Goals for Success

By working on just a few questions a week, learners use IXL to make progress towards a lot of big learning goals, like improving their test scores or meeting grade-level expectations. But sometimes these big goals can be intimidating, making it hard for students to get started. Luckily, IXL’s student dashboard makes it easy to set goals that your students can track on their own!

Goal Setting Strategies

Here are some goal-setting strategies to help students make the most of IXL:

Practice Makes Permanent: IXL is research proven to help students learn new content in a way that sticks. And that doesn’t always mean practicing a skill to a score of 100.
Little and Often: A little goes a long way! Working on IXL a little bit every day can help students lock in learning without overwhelming them. Ask students to practice 5 to 10 questions a day to ensure they’re making steady progress.
Time-Based Goals: Similar to a question goal, a time goal can help learners build up the habit of practicing a little bit each day. Tell your students to set aside 10-15 minutes each day to work on IXL.
Compete Against Yourself: Friendly competition is a great way to motivate learning. So why not have learners compete against themselves? Have your learners try to meet or exceed their weekly averages.
Leverage Awards: Students already love earning awards, which makes them an easy way to set goals. If they meet their goal, the student dashboard will let them know that they have new awards to uncover!

Focusing on the Right Skills

Once you’ve set goals with your students about what kind of usage they’re aiming for, it’s important to clarify which skills you’d like them to work on. For each larger goal a student is working towards, they’ll need to focus their attention on what will make the most impact.

Keeping the Diagnostic Up-to-Date

To give students even more benefits from IXL, have them keep their diagnostic strands up to date. With only 10-15 questions a week in the Diagnostic arena, learners can keep their scores pinpointed and get better skill recommendations as a result. These diagnostic recommendations make it easier for you and your students to find the right skills to close learning gaps or provide students with appropriate next steps for their learning level. Assigning the diagnostic is an easy way to keep this top of mind for students. From your IXL account, go to the Assessment tab and click the “Keep your Real-Time Diagnostic up to date!” button to automatically put a reminder on the student dashboard.

IXL's Real-Time Diagnostic has long been established through validity research to be a precise indicator of student achievement and a strong predictor of performance on standardized assessments. Get up-to-the-minute insights from IXL's Real-Time Diagnostic, which pinpoints students' overall working grade levels and their levels on key strands.

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Scheduling and Assignments

Another simple way to help learners stay on top of their learning goals is to set up a simple schedule for their IXL work.

Teachers, lesson planning on IXL just got even easier! When you find a skill you’d like to schedule ahead, click the star button. This will automatically suggest the skill to all of your students. Next, choose the date and time you want the skill to appear on your selected students’ dashboards. If you’d like, you can also set an end date. On your teacher dashboard, you’ll see any skills you’ve scheduled ahead of time listed separately from your actively suggested skills. If you’ve set an end date for your suggested skills, they will be removed from your students’ dashboards on the end date. You can also easily manage and remove your currently suggested skills on your teacher dashboard. Ready to make planning your class assignments easier than ever?

IXL's Comprehensive Features for Educators

IXL provides a range of tools for teachers to monitor student progress, customize learning experiences, and gain insights into student performance.

Teaching Tools

Teaching Tools: Customize suggested skills, manage quizzes, and track performance via analytics.

Assessment & Analytics

Quizzes: Create, manage, and analyze student quizzes. Analytics: Track detailed student performance with progress reports and data insights. IXL's Analytics allowed me to see that what she couldn't do was add and subtract integers-she could multiply and divide them-but not add and subtract.

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Engagement Tools

Group Jam: Work on questions together as a class. Leaderboards: Foster competition through skill-based scoring. Live Classroom: Monitor student activity and provide real-time assistance. Focus Zone: Limit practice areas to focus on specific subjects or grades.

District Analytics

We’re excited to introduce District Analytics! Now, you can see in real time how well teachers and learners are engaging with IXL, as well as whether students are meeting grade-level expectations. District Analytics features flexible reports that enable you to zoom in and out between high-level district insights and in-depth classroom data. Each report uses clear-cut visuals to give an immediate understanding of how your district is doing. If you see something you want to investigate, you can drill down into school- and grade-level insights.

This dashboard features summaries of your district’s IXL use and achievements, all in one place. Research shows that answering at least 15 questions per subject per week on IXL has a positive impact on students’ state test performance. The Skill Usage report helps you track whether your students are meeting that goal of regular usage. Studies show that achieving proficiency (a SmartScore of 80) and mastery (a SmartScore of 100) on IXL skills leads to learning gains. This report helps you understand whether schools are using IXL for this type of purposeful practice. The more engaged teachers are with IXL, the more confident you can be that student outcomes will grow and accelerate throughout the school year.

The Diagnostic Levels report helps you identify students that are at, above, below, or far below grade level in math and ELA based on Real-Time or Snapshot data. It also shows which students are within a Snapshot window or have yet to pinpoint their diagnostic level. It’s an easy way to see whether students are making expected progress at this point in the year. With District Analytics, you have a powerful tool to successfully implement IXL in your district.

Student demographic data is now available in District Analytics, in the US edition! Now, district administrators are able to filter, group, and sort reports by any demographic field rostered to their account. Student demographic data can be collected through all rostering methods for US site accounts using either standard demographic data fields or custom demographic fields based on individual district needs. District administrators on US, CA, and UK site accounts are now able to group their diagnostic reports by grade, school, or (for US only) any rostered demographic category. Administrators will also have the ability to choose multiple “group by” categories which will stack, allowing them to view specific student subgroups. Administrators can also export the data as shown in the image, both through PDF and CSV exports.

Teacher Dashboard

We’ve redesigned our teacher dashboard on all English editions! Teachers can now easily access classroom engagement tools, monitor students’ learning, and manage their assignments, all from their IXL homepage. Teachers can also view their students’ dashboards!

Administrators can click on each item on the teacher’s dashboard to dive deeper. The teacher dashboard in admin analytics, and more!

Recent Updates and Enhancements

At IXL, we never stop adding new features and skills to our award-winning teaching and learning platform, so you can always trust we’re on pace with students’ evolving needs.

New Features:

Explore Spark Studio, powered by AI, for creating personalized lesson plans and resources.
Complete K-12 national norms
A “completed skills” list for students
The teacher dashboard in admin analytics
Snapshot data from the previous school year
IXL Quizzes on the iPad app
Fall Power-up plans are back! These skill plans provide 20 days of math and ELA skill recommendations for students entering grades K-12.
Our Learn to Read skill plans have gotten a summer makeover! Our Learn to Read skill plans guide students through the foundational skills they need to start reading successfully. They’ve been updated to align even more closely to the typical scope and pace of instruction for each grade.
We’ve updated the weekly boost plans in math for Pre-K through 5th grade to feature our newest and best elementary skills.

Content Expansion:

IXL Science in Canada aligns to provincial curricula and covers essential topics like physical science, life science, Earth and space science, scientific inquiry, and engineering design. IXL Science is compatible with other popular IXL features like Leaderboards, Group Jams, Quizzes, and Recommendations. It also includes custom skill plans for Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec!
We’ve released 29 new math videos to expand our coverage! This includes 13 new videos for Grade 2 and 8 new videos for Grades 3 through Geometry. We’ve also released 8 new localized videos for Canada in Grades 6-8.
We’ve also released 3 new phonics videos and 3 new middle school ELA videos to expand our coverage in existing grades. In addition, we added Spanish captions to 66 more videos.
We’ve expanded our Spanish-language support to include a handful of new skills in elementary, middle, and high school.
We have added 9 English skills to our international editions (CA, AU, NZ, UK, IE, IN, ZA); these skills were previously only available in the US.
We’ve added over 100 ABCya games to the UK and Australia editions of IXL! The games have been localized for our UK and AU users. Just like in the US and CA editions, users can access the games from the grade landing pages! Games are available on the UK edition for Reception through Year 6.
We released skill plans for Indiana’s new streamlined 2023 standards for math, ELA, science, and social studies!
We’ve expanded our Checkpoints for Kentucky, West Virginia, and South Dakota to include High School Integrated I and II. Teachers and students in these states can access these Checkpoints directly from their state standards skill plan.

Accessibility:

School-level administrators can more easily access the individual students’ diagnostic data they are looking for!
On the student dashboard, where students can see skills suggested by their teacher or parent, we’ve created a new “completed skills” list. Students can toggle their goal for completion based on whether they’re working towards proficiency (a SmartScore of 80) or mastery (a SmartScore of 100), and the list will filter accordingly.
The IXL iPad app has a new look and feel! The updates make everything IXL has to offer even easier to navigate. Plus, students can now complete IXL Quizzes on the iPad app! We’ve also updated some of our early literacy content to better support and delight our youngest learners.
We’ve also added Spanish captions for 72 more videos.

Resources & Support

IXL Minis: Quick videos for platform tips. Webinars & Guides: Access free training and best practice resources.

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