Overview
From individual practice to whole group activity
IXL's skill practice was designed around personalized learning, allowing students to work at their own pace toward proficiency. To prevent students from sharing answers, each student received different questions in a different order.
While this model worked well for individual practice, it created a challenge for teachers using IXL for group instruction. Students couldn't work through the same question together, making it difficult to use IXL as a shared classroom activity.
We created Group Jam to bridge this gap. In Group Jam mode, teachers could select skills and questions for the entire class to work through together. Every student saw the same question at the same time, creating opportunities to collaborate, discuss strategies, or compete with classmates.
More details on the project coming soon.
Initial brainstorming
Sketching out how a shared classroom question could work
Group Jam session
Two views of the same shared question
Teachers ran the session from a shared class view, while every student worked the same question in sync on their own device.
Group Jam results
A results summary teachers could review together
