I attended a webinar this morning given by Bobbi Bear of IXL. After spending an hour with Bobbi, I felt inspired to share some of my biggest take-aways with those of you who are currently using this tool:
- Analytics is a new IXL feature. It has several tabs that encourage the teacher to drive the instruction. The Skills tab allows you to see at a glance what question level your students are working on and what their current SmartScore is. The Real Time Center tab makes it easy for the teacher to monitor on one screen what skills, questions, and time-on-task behaviors students are exhibiting. The Trouble Spots and Question Log tabs give valuable insight about where students are struggling.
- Instructors can now use a highlighting tool to visually mark a skill they want students to practice.
- SmartScore is just a measure of progress and should not be used in the grade book.
- Grade levels can be turned off to provide differentiated instruction.
- Audio can be turned on in the teacher settings for students in second grade and above. Pre-k through first grades have audio by default.
AND MY FAVORITE TAKEAWAY...
- The new Social Studies and Science component of IXL features comprehension tasks perfect for the ELA classroom (i.e. inferencing, drawing conclusions)
How do you use IXL in your classroom? What features are especially helpful to you? Please share in the comments section below.
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