Add or copy Revel or eText content
Updated 10 Nov 2023
To access Revel or eText content from your LMS course, link your accounts once and add or copy content to your LMS course. Then set up Revel or eText assignments.
Link your accounts
- From your LMS course, select the Revel and eText or Access Pearson link. Don't see the link?
Prompted to open Pearson or choose your product?
Select Open Pearson.
You might see another page telling you how to re-open your content. If Revel and eText or Pearson isn't already open in another tab, return to your LMS course navigation and select the Revel and eText or Pearson link again. In a partner integration, your link is named something like BookShelf or Launch courseware.
Choose your product
Select Revel | eText | Live Response. Your selection is permanent and can't be undone.
MyLab or Mastering (go to this Instructor Help)
Revel, eText, or Live Response (covered in this Help)
- Agree to any authorization requests.
- Enter the username and password from your existing Pearson instructor account and select Link accounts. If you don't have an account, select Create an account and follow the prompts. You can only link one LMS account to one Pearson account.
Section instructors and teaching assistants
We don't currently support the section instructor roles. However, multiple instructors can use the same Revel and eText or Pearson content in an LMS course. The first instructor adds content to an LMS course and enrolls any other instructors. Other instructors open the content and might need to link a Pearson account with an LMS instructor account. An access code or other payment isn't required. No changes are needed to designate the other instructor within Pearson.
For how Revel designates teaching assistants (TAs), see Revel Help.
- Select Continue.
Next, add or copy Revel or eText content to your LMS course.
Add or copy Revel or eText content to your course
From your LMS, add or copy Revel or eText content to your course. You can't do this for Revel or eText content you created outside your LMS course such as from the Revel website. However, you can add copies of this content.
- Confirm there are no unsupported characters in the section title, names, and settings of your LMS course: \ / " * < > + = | , % ! & : ? -. Names can't exceed 128 characters.
- From your LMS course, select the Revel and eText or Access Pearson link. Don't see the link?
- Choose any available option to add or copy Revel or eText content.
Learn about options
- Find new content to add. Enter the author, ISBN, title, or keyword and select
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To verify the content, check the title, author name, or ISBN. Read the overview and table of contents. Payment options are under Student access options.
Revel Seamless: After you find and select content, you'll see options to copy another instructor's content or, if applicable, content you've used previously. You can't add or copy content you created outside your LMS course such as from the MyLab and Mastering or Revel website. However, you can add copies of this content. Also, students pay for Revel Seamless content through their institutions. Look for Institutional access with the number of days students can access the content.
- Add new or copied content by selecting Set it up.
- If your LMS course was copied from a course with Revel or eText content, select Continue to copy it.
- Copy content you used in the past under Use your previous content.
- Copy another instructor’s content. Enter the copy code provided to you and select Find.
Prompted to upgrade?
After copying your content, select Notifications from the Options menu for a report on upgrade results.
You'll see the report under Notifications. Select
to return to your grade sync settings.
- Find new content to add. Enter the author, ISBN, title, or keyword and select
- Use the default or enter a display name between 4 and 40 characters long.
- Select the availability start and end dates.
- Under Share content, choose whether to let other instructors copy your content using a code.
- Select Continue and wait for the confirmation message.
Using Blackboard? Submit the Pearson link.
Select Return to Course.
You'll see a confirmation message and then might need to return to Blackboard and select Revel and eText or Access Pearson again.
For the Revel and eText integration, select Submit to add the link to the destination folder. For the Access Pearson integration, enter a link name. We recommend Access Pearson.
or
Make your course available to students.
- Select the content image or Open from the Options menu to open your Pearson content.
Next, set up assignments.
Set up assignments
- From your LMS course, select the Revel and eText or Access Pearson link. Don't see the link?
- Create and publish assignments with due dates. Manage due dates only from your Revel and eText content, not your LMS course. See Revel Help for how to create assignments, assign due dates, and publish.
Make sure assignment names don't exceed 128 characters. Avoid unsupported characters in names and settings: \ / " * < > + = | , % ! & : ? -
- Return to your LMS course.
- Depending on your integration, do one of the following. Don't know your integration?
- If you're using the Revel and eText (LTI 1.1) integration, get students started.
- If you're using the Access Pearson integration, you can add assignment or course tool links before you get students started.
Learn more

You can edit the display name or availability dates after you add or copy content. Select Edit name from the Options menu.

For LMS courses that use the same Revel or eText content, copy the same Revel or eText content. Alternatively, create and copy an LMS template course with the same Revel or eText content.

If you use the Revel and eText or Access Pearson integration with seamless access and use multiple learning management systems, add new content instead of previous content. Don't copy Revel or eText content from one learning management system. Seamless access doesn't transfer.