Making The Most Of IXL

A good majority of our staff is now using the IXL tool for math and language arts support and practice.  This will be the first in a series of posts to show you how to make the most of this tool.

Some Valuable Reasons To Use IXL?

• Common Core aligned practice and review
• allows for vertical alignment between grade levels
• easy to use reports that track student progress
• efficient tool for collecting SLO data

Having your class use IXL is a great first step, but the real power of the tool is in the data that it provides for the teacher.  IXL generates various, easy-to-read reports and graphs that support and inform your teaching. You can find detailed directions on the IXL site here.  However, I have tried to streamline this process even further for those of you just getting started with pulling reports.    

3 Easy Clicks To Access A Report:

• After logging into your teacher account,  click on Reports.

• Find the Performance tab along left side of screen, click on it.

• Tap on Recent Skills.

• You are now able to both view and print reports of all of the recent skills that your students have practiced.

**As an additional tool, to help you organize,  IXL provides these handy printable grade progress charts.

I hope these tips will help you get started.  If you would like to see a specific area of IXL covered in an upcoming post, please leave your idea in the comments section below.