Quick start: Revel instructor

Updated 08 Sep 2025

This guide covers the steps for instructors to get started using Revel courses with their students.

Using an LMS? Start your course from your learning management system if you work in Blackboard, Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Moodle, Sakai, or Schoology.

First steps
Prepare your course settings
Get students started
Prepare your assignments
View performance and grades
Move beyond the basics

First steps

Create an instructor account

Read how to create an account

Watch how to create an account

Access your course

To access your course:

Go to the Pearson | Revel website: www.pearsonhighered.com/revel.
Select Sign in.
Enter your credentials.
The My courses page opens.
On the My courses page, create a course or copy an existing course.
After the course is created, it shows on the My courses page.

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Prepare your course settings

Use the My courses page to find your course and select Open Revel.

When the course opens, you can prepare your settings.

Set course settings

In your course, select Settings to open the course settings page. You can manage three types of settings: scheduling, gradebook display, and scoring.

Scheduling

In the Scheduling section, set assignment information by selecting:

When assignments are due.
When assignments become available.
Your time zone.

Changes to Assignments Due and Assessments Available fields do not apply to existing assignments.

Gradebook display

In the Gradebook display section, set how grades display by selecting:

Points.
Percentages.
Points and percentages.

Students always see their grades as points.

Scoring

In the Scoring section, set how assignments are scored by selecting:

Possible points - How many points each question is worth for an assessment type. You can adjust the point values for assignments embedded in the eTextbook, such as Journals or Concept Checks.
Tries - How many tries students can have per question.
Allow late - Whether to automatically allow late work with a late penalty.
- If late work is allowed with a 50% penalty, a student who completes an assignment late will have 50% of the score deducted.
- If late work isn't allowed, students can still access the assignment and view the correct answers, but they can't earn any credit for it.

Select Save to save the settings.

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Get students started

Enroll students

To join your course, your students need a valid email address and a course invitation.

From the Dashboard, open the Course setup view.
In the Course access section, select Invite students. The invite link with instructions opens.
Select Copy Link or Copy Instructions to share the registration instructions with students. Students use the course URL to go directly to the registration page for your course.

Manage the student roster

Use your Revel class roster to view student status in your course, promote students to teaching assistants, designate additional instructors or co-teachers in your course, and email your students. Learn more about how to manage your class roster.

Use the Student View

From Settings use the student view to experience your course as your students will.

Instructors always see assessments, even if those are not available to students in your course.

Use the Dashboard

The Dashboard is your at-a-glance tool into class health. Use the Dashboard to:

Assess student performance - view student performance data, identify struggling students, and determine a course of action to help them get back on track.

Evaluate class trends - identify class-wide pain points such as challenging questions or adjust pacing and spacing of assignments.

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Prepare your assignments

Create Assignments

Create and publish assignments to help students stay on track with your course materials. You have full control over what your students are expected to work on and when.

Watch: Assign content in Revel

Edit Assignments

You can edit assignments after creating them. Often instructors will adjust for no class periods like term breaks.

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View performance and grades

Use the Grades page to view student scores by Student or Assignment. The Grades page shows student scores after a student submits all scored items in an assignment, even if the assignment due date has not passed.

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Move beyond the basics

Take advantage of many other powerful features in your course.

Annotate your course with the Notebook - In your book, you can add highlights and notes to your book or assignments at any time, and share them with students.

Open instructor resources - Explore additional resources, such as PowerPoint presentations and test banks.