How settings work

Updated 10 Oct 2023

Course details settings

Saving settings on the Course details page replaces all local settings for unpublished and published but unstarted assignments with the settings on this page.

Class roster settings don't change when you save course detail settings.

Course details > Scheduling

  • Time zone changes apply to all assignments. You see an assignment due time in the time zone you set. Students see assignment due time based on their browser's clock.
  • Availability setting changes apply to existing, unpublished assignments, and to assignments created after you change and save settings.
  • Due time changes apply to assignments created after you change and save settings.
  • Published, in-progress, and completed assignments retain their previous scheduling settings.
  • Assessments that were available in published assignments remain available to students even if you unpublish the assignment.

Course details > Scoring

Question tries

  • Students can see up to 20 of their previous incorrect submissions, and can opt to see the correct answer and feedback at any time. This option is helpful for assessments with unlimited tries.
  • "Students always have 1 try fewer than question answers" is a bit complicated:

    This guidance applies to questions with a set number of answer choices. If an assessment question has fewer answer choices than tries, Revel adjusts the number of tries to the number of answers minus 1.

    This adjustment ensures that students don't earn points by process of elimination. For example, if assessments include questions with different numbers of answers, Revel allows 3 tries for 4-answer questions and 1 try for 2-answer questions.

    However, adding answers to assessment questions does not increase the number of tries.

  • Unlimited tries

    If your course includes questions, such as code questions, with an unlimited number of possible answers, and you select the Unlimited tries option, students can answer the question as many times as they choose.

    If, however, you select unlimited tries for assessments with questions that have a set number of answers, Revel limits the tries to the number of answers minus 1, as described above.

  • The unlimited tries option does not affect late submission options. Setting an assessment to allow unlimited tries lets students answer questions as many times as they want until the due date. Setting an assessment to accept late work, with or without a late penalty, lets students answer questions after the assessment's due date passes.

Late work and penalty options

You can change Allow late and Penalty settings for a given assessment type until students start work on an assignment with that assessment type. Work starts when a student opens a reading or submits an assessment question.

If students have started work and you want to remove the penalty, you can move the assignment due date to the future so the work won't be considered late. You can also edit student scores after the due date passes.

Learning app assessments that are manually scored always allow late work, with or without a penalty.

Class roster settings

  • From Settings > Class roster, you can drop and reactivate students, promote students to TA or instructor roles, and check student enrollment and payment status. Information you enter on either Manage course > Roster or Settings > Class roster automatically syncs with the other page.
  • Instructors who access Revel through an LMS can see the Revel roster and settings. However, the LMS roster does not automatically sync with the Revel roster. You need to manually change the rosters to make them match.
  • If you and students use an LMS to access Revel content, TAs must still access Revel through the My courses page. Accessing Revel from the LMS resets the TA's role back to student.