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Pearson Revel

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What is Pearson Revel?

Revel from Pearson supports students with note taking, assessments, and other classroom tasks, and integrates with commonly used LMS.

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In my experience, Good product, but poor customer service

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Finance and Accounting (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pearson Revel is a part of my classroom instruction. It grants students eBook access and facilitates reading of the textbook. As a typical online homework platform, it aims to streamline my teaching. Primarily, I leverage it for assigning reading tasks with the objective to to optimize student engagement and comprehension of the textbook materials.

Pros

  • Ease of assigning reading
  • Ease of tracking level of student engagement
  • Ease of use for instructors

Cons

  • Lacks the ability to adjust reading assignment (i.e. how many concepts I can pick and choose for each chapter)
  • Lacks adaptability to student's mastery of the chapter materials. It's just a reading app.
  • Integration with Canvas is not as streamline as other comparable products such as McGraw-Hill Connect. It needs to use an access code for pairing while Connect doesn't require it which is more streamline.

Return on Investment

  • The project is fine. I found other publisher such as McGraw-Hill provides slight better product.
  • In my experience, their customer service is not good. I think McGraw-Hill has much better customer service.
  • I won't recommend them because of the bad customer service experience that I had with them.

Alternatives Considered

McGraw-Hill Connect

Other Software Used

CaseWare IDEA, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT

Pro's & Cons to utilizing Pearson Revel

Incentivized
Marianna RaderView profile
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rockingham Community College (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • The REVEL platform is easy to navigate.
  • The content is customizable.
  • There are many grade reports that can be run for up-to-date information on students' progress.

Cons

  • Unfortunately, there are some videos that do not play, or situations where the video does not match the question content. These are bugs that should be attended to by Pearson, but although I have reported them (along with students), they have not been remedied.
  • Instructors who would prefer to use only the digital text do not have the option to purchase the text without the platform.
  • Because the text and software are integrated, there are no "page numbers" as in other digital texts which makes it hard to reference a particular section in a lecture, assignment, or presentation.

Return on Investment

  • NEGATIVE: The platform is less expensive than a printed text, but students can use OER's for free. This is especially important at the community college level where students tend to have less financial resources for education.
  • NEGATIVE: After the course completes, the student has nothing to use as a reference. They cannot go back and view the content, nor can they print any of the content.
  • NEGATIVE: The student pays for the learning platform and content which includes a large number of activities and resources. While this seems to be a positive thing, students (and instructors) can get overwhelmed with the number of activities and resources available. Some students won't use any of the resources at all.

Other Software Used

Moodle, Blackboard Learn, Microsoft Office 365