Revel

Score4 out of 10

7 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Pearson Revel are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

User-friendly interface: Several users have found Revel to be user-friendly and easy to navigate, with a clean interface that is visually pleasing. This has made the software accessible to all learners, including those with learning accommodations.

Interactive features: Many reviewers appreciate the interactive features of Revel, such as audio readings, videos, and built-in highlighting tools and definitions. These features make learning more engaging and help with comprehension.

Supplemental material: A number of users found Revel helpful for digitally-based coursework because it offers an interactive e-book along with online manipulatives. The availability of supplemental material makes learning fun for students and helps them better understand the concepts presented in their courses.

Reviews

2 Reviews

In my experience, Good product, but poor customer service

Rating: 4 out of 10

Incentivized

May 9, 2024

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, Pearson Revel isn't a bad product. It works as intended. However, the customer service at Pearson Revel is very poor (at least based on my personal experience. Others may have better success with their customer services). I tried to contact the Pearson representative numerous times via email and phone calls to set up Pearson Revel for my class. In my experience, the representative never returned my emails or phone calls. I am very disappointed by their lack of customer support.

Verified User

Professional in Finance and Accounting (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Pro's & Cons to utilizing Pearson Revel

Rating: 3 out of 10

Incentivized

February 1, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Pearson Revel learning platform for both General Psychology and Developmental Psychology classes. The REVEL learning system allows us to do away with printed textbooks and incorporates learning activities into the course content. The lower price of the system (opposed to the printed textbook) is helpful for our students.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Pearson Revel is probably best suited for distance learning of large sections where there is little time for discussion and grading assignments manually is prohibitive. I would prefer not to use it with small classes and traditional classes.

Marianna Rader

Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rockingham Community College (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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