Revel by Pearson Hack 8.9.282 + Redeem Codes

I like the way the app is set up and everything, but sometimes the audio function does not want to play and you have to press the play button like ten times to get it to work — not the best for commuters. Another inconvenience is that sometimes it will read through the whole chapter, whereas other times the audio will stop after every page — again, very annoying when you’re driving or multitasking. Finally, I would like to see an assignments tab that clearly lists the writing assignments still left to do. Right now they are located sporadically at the bottom of the pages which makes it difficult to see what you need to get done, especially when listening to the audio. Please address these problems and this will be an excellent app!

I have had no overwhelming issues with the app, audio and reading both seem to work. However, to get this app to something I'd actually find useful, there are a few quality of life things that need to be fixed. (1) Highlighting - when highlighting text the pop up that lets you choose a color is poorly placed. More often than not, it pops up directly over what I intend to highlight. A better solution would be to have it always appear above my initial selection. (2) Notes export - when exporting notes, Revel truncates the note after around 150 characters. Anything after that does not get exported, which often makes note export to PDF useless. Removing the truncation from note export will make it a feature that can actually be used. (3) Sync across devices either takes too long or simply doesn’t work. Fixing this to operate like other digital textbook platforms would put this top of class.

The app is poorly organized and has very annoying tendencies. For instance, when I try to highlight a section of text, it for some reasons will automatically scroll to the very top of the page. I could stop it but when I released my finger it continued to scroll up. When it reaches the top of the page it just stays there. If I try to scroll down it will again scroll itself to the top by itself. I have to close the app to make it work again. I just need to highlight a simple definition but can’t, which makes my homework assignment take even longer.

When I registered for a new course it refused to download. It would just show 0% and do nothing. Then it finally started to download after closing the app multiple times, but once it reached 100% it somehow went back to the little cloud icon and showed 0% again. It wouldn’t let me open the course either. I ended up just deleting the app and tried again and it finally worked.

I’m a busy college student, I don’t have the time to try to get this stupid app to work properly so I can study and do my homework.

I like having my text book on my laptop/phone but what is the point if the highlight feature that was implemented only works at times.. I like to read the text, highlight the important stuff as I go, then go back to it and take notes when i finish that whole section. On numerous occasions I have came back my highlights/notes were not saved. I am double majoring, dont have a lot of time to have to go back to re read and highlight what I ALREADY did. please fix that. the few times the highlighting works it’s not up to it’s full potential, for ex. — I highlight stuff on the app/website but if I switch over from one to the other it & it isn’t there — I highlight on phone thru the app OR laptop highlight thru website, then switch to other device its not on THAT device if that makes sense. so I have to switch back to my device I original took notes on to see my work on that section. that also should be fixed. other than that, great.

The concept of this app is great, however it falls short because of its interface. I believe this app would benefit highly from a portrait-view mode instead of being stuck in landscape. (In fact, I thought the problems I was having with compatibility stemmed from a bug that didn’t allow me to switch to portrait mode.) In addition to making textbooks much easier to read, it would solve the problem of embedded files and review questions being squished to the point of being unreadable/inoperable. Review questions would be missing some of their answer choices, and the format just looked horrible; despite having so much space on the margins, the text just decided to squish in the center of the box, taking up a mere 20-30% area of the whole square. Please add a portrait mode or at least address the bugs that I just mentioned because at this point, this app is unusable and pointless compared to the web version.

I love having my textbook and listening to it on the go but the control center for the audio functions poorly. It’s difficult to rewind and fast forward without physically opening the app. I would like a 5-10 second rewind or fast forward feature when you’re outside of the app. The app tends to get stuck when trying to select a new section to listen to so it’s a bit buggy.

Another area in need of improvement is the highlighting and text feature. I have difficulty being able to easily click on my highlights and view my notes without tapping around a bit. And at times, it’s difficult changing the color of the highlight without having to reselect the whole text all over again. I have to play around with it to work properly. Sometimes the app will just crash completely when highlighting on mobile.

It’s super nice having a digital textbook but sometimes the functions glitch out and act super weird, especially highlighting and the concept maps. It’s annoying how it takes me back to the top when I change the color of highlights and sometimes doing that makes it drag all the way to the top and I can’t scroll down again. This goes away when I close the app and open it again, but still weird. As for the concept maps, I click on the first thing and there’s often a text box that doesn’t go away, covering up other text. Sometimes tapping it works but usually not.
Thanks for making this stuff work as well as it does and I hope my feedback is helpful! I appreciate having a textbook on my phone and computer.

The intention of the update where the read aloud option goes uninterrupted may seem more convenient but in fact it was the opposite. It may be convenient if you have the time to sit down and read entire chapters but if you are like me and like to read small sections at a time whether it be during a lunch break at work or in between classes, this new feature makes it extremely inconvenient to navigate back to the section at a future time. It makes it so you have to fast forward through the entire section to pick up where you left off rather than just press play at the top of the page. Another issue is the playback speed resets back to default 1x after every page which is extremely frustrating. The new “uninterrupted read aloud” causes more interruptions than the previous versions.

Worst app I have used in a while. Every single time I try to listen to the audio narration of a chapter/section in the book. I have to frequently go look for the next section and press the button for the next section every 2 minutes. Why can’t they do the same thing like audible which goes from one section to the next without you having to look for the next section and press play? If someone for instance is driving and trying to listen to the audio version (bluetooth wise in their car) that is absolutely a distraction and a waste of time since you cannot concentrate as efficiently as possible without having to press for the next section. Additionally, another useless thing is on their website I see nothing that can let me send out this complaint. This is absurd since how can a student be spending a great deal of money and not be able to notify the company of a certain issue and get a response back?

Split view is unsupported, so if I want to take any notes on my course textbook, I have to constantly flip between apps. The in-app highlighting feature is useless, you have to select the text, tap it, then select highlight. In the long run, you spend more time trying to highlight something rather than quickly reading and annotating course material. It also doesn’t correctly highlight with the color you select 90% of the time. Switching color modes also does not work 90% of the time. I am utterly disappointed that the required text for my course is on this app. It is so buggy and useless and probably the biggest hindrance to learning. As expensive as the online textbooks are, you think you could expect a functioning application to read them. Developers, I am begging you to please fix this appication.