Revive School: Student Guide

This guide helps you use the Revive School website, www.reviveschool.org. It explains where things are and how the site keeps your place and your progress.

Getting started

Log in

1. Open www.reviveschool.org.
2. Choose Log in.
3. Type your email address and your password.
4. Choose Log in and stay logged in if this is your own device. Choose Log in only this time if the device is shared.

You can also log in without a password. Choose Email me a log-in link instead. The site sends a link to your email. Open the link to log in. Use this if you forgot your password.

To set or change your password, log in, then open www.reviveschool.org/students/settings.

The menu

The menu has four items. On a phone, choose the menu button to open it.

• Courses: all the lessons of the course, in order.
• Search: find a word or a Bible passage in the lessons.
• Studies: your Bible study groups. See Bible studies.
• Me: your place in the course, your progress, and your answers.

The Me item shows only when you are logged in.

What “Me” is

Me is your own page. It shows:

• the day you are on,
• today’s lesson,
• what you have done,
• your answers.

If you ask “Where am I?”, the answer is on Me. Do not look under Courses or Studies. Courses is the same for every student. It does not know your place.

Your day and your start date

Day N of 730

The course has 730 lessons. That is two years, one lesson each day. On Me, the course row shows “day N of 730”. This is your day. Day 1 is your start date.

A lesson page also shows “Day N of 730”. There, the number is the place of that lesson in the course. It is not your day.

The day moves every day

The day number goes up by one each day. It goes up if you did the lesson. It goes up if you did not. This is normal. A day is counted in United States Eastern time. A new day starts at midnight there. For you, the day may change at a different hour.

Being behind is normal

If you miss days, the lessons wait for you. They do not expire. Me shows how many lessons are waiting. You can do them at your own speed.

Change your start date

1. Open Me.
2. Open your course row.
3. Find the date field, Started on.
4. Choose a new date.
5. Choose Change.

Your day number changes at once. Your answers and ticks stay.

A lesson

Open a lesson from Me, from Courses, or from Search. The lesson page has two steps at the top: Lesson and Daily Word. Use Previous and Next to go to the lesson before or after.

Lesson

This step has:

• the video,
• Audio Only, to listen to the lesson,
• two tabs: Teaching Notes and Questions.

You can change the tab while the video plays. Some lessons have no notes or no questions. Then you see fewer tabs.

Daily Word

This step is a short reading and a thought for the day. Choose Daily Word at the top, or Next: the Daily Word.

The Bible passage

Near the title of the lesson is the Bible passage for the day. Choose it to read it on Bible Gateway. The link says Read on Bible Gateway. Bible Gateway opens in a new tab.

Downloads

The Downloads button is at the top of the lesson. It has the audio, the video, and PDF files of the teaching notes, the questions, and the Daily Word.

Downloads do not count toward your progress. You can download the files to keep them. This does not tick anything. To count a part, do the part on the website, or tick it by hand. See How progress is tracked.

Answering questions

1. Open the Questions tab.
2. Type your answer in the box under each question.
3. Leave the box. For example, touch the next box, or go to another page.

There is no Save button. The site saves your answer when you leave the box. It also saves when you leave the page. Under the box you see “Saved”. If you changed the answer, you see “Saved (revised 1×)”.

You can change an answer at any time. The site keeps the latest text. It counts how many times you changed it.

To find your answers again, open the lesson and open Questions. Your answers are in the boxes. On Me, the section What have I found? shows how many questions you answered.

If you do not see a box, you are not logged in. Choose Sign in under the question.

How progress is tracked

Each lesson has five parts. The site shows them in the Progress ring on the lesson page. The ring is near the Downloads button. Choose the ring to see the list.

The ring has one segment for each part. The number in the ring shows how many parts are done, for example 4/5.

What the site ticks for you

The site ticks a part when it sees you do it.

• Watched the lesson: the video or the audio plays to 90% or to the end.
• Read the passage: you choose the Read on Bible Gateway link.
• Read the teaching notes: you scroll to the end of the notes.
• Read the Daily Word: you scroll to the end of the Daily Word.
• Answered the questions: every question has an answer.

If you read the passage in your own Bible

The site cannot know that you read the passage in your own Bible. It ticks Read the passage only when you choose the link. If you read in your own Bible, tick the part by hand. Open the Progress ring, then tick Read the passage.

The same is true for a video you watched somewhere else, or a note you read on paper.

Tick by hand

1. Open the Progress ring.
2. Tick the part you did.

You can also tick parts on Me, in the course row. To remove a tick, clear the box. The site never removes a tick you made by hand.

Mark the whole lesson done

Use Mark the whole lesson done if you did the lesson in a group, or on paper. It ticks all the parts.

When a lesson counts as done

A lesson counts as done when these three parts are ticked:

• Watched the lesson,
• Read the passage,
• Answered the questions (if the lesson has questions).

A lesson marked with Mark the whole lesson done also counts as done. The teaching notes and the Daily Word show in the ring, but a lesson can count as done without them.

The Me page

Me has a header with your name and today’s date. Below it are four sections.

Your course

The course row shows:

• the course name and “day N of 730”,
• today’s lesson,
• a pill: Today done or Today not done.

Open the row to see more. You see today’s lesson with its checklist, how many lessons are done, and a bar. You also see how many lessons are waiting.

Today’s lesson, Catch up, and Continue

• Today’s lesson opens the lesson for your day.
• Catch up: day N opens the first earlier lesson that is not done. It shows when you are behind.
• Continue: day N shows when you are not behind. It opens the next lesson.
• All lessons opens the course.

Am I keeping at it?

This is a calendar of squares for the past year. One square is one day. A darker square means you did more that day. A day can have up to three parts: the lesson, the Daily Word, and the questions. The page also shows your days in a row and your longest run.

If you miss days, the run starts again. A missed day is a pause. It is not the end. The old site did not record the date of its ticks, so they do not show in the squares.

Which parts do you do?

This section has five rings, one for each part of a lesson. Each ring shows how many lessons you did that part for, out of the days so far.

What have I found?

This shows how many questions you answered. It also shows the names of Jesus. Each book of the Bible has one name. You find the name when you finish the book.

Going through the course again

You can go through the course again, as many times as you like.

1. Open Me.
2. Open your course row.
3. Choose Start again from day 1.
4. Confirm.

The site sets your start date to today. You are on day 1. Your ticks start empty.

Nothing is lost. Your earlier answers stay. On each lesson, under each question, you see a line such as “Your answer from an earlier time through”. Choose it to read the answer. The course row shows “2nd time through”, then “3rd time through”, and so on.

Do not use Start again from day 1 to fix a wrong start date. Use Change instead.

Coming from the old site

Your account came over from the old site. These came over too:

• your email address and your password,
• your answers,
• your start date,
• your old ticks.

Some things have new places.

• Your course and your place are on Me.
• Studies now means Bible study groups. It is not the course. See Bible studies.
• The five parts are new. The old site had ticks for three of them: the passage, the video and the questions. A lesson with an old tick also has Read the teaching notes and Read the Daily Word ticked. An old tick that you did not make stays empty. You can tick it by hand.

If something is missing, use the Need help? button. See Getting help.

Bible studies

A Bible study is a group. It has some lessons, a schedule, and the people you invite. Open Studies to see your groups.

• To start a study, choose Start a study. Give it a name. Choose the lessons. Choose the first meeting, how often you meet, the time, the time zone, and the place. Add email addresses of people to invite.
• To join a study, open the link the leader sent you. Log in first if the site asks.
• A study page shows the meetings, the people, and an invite link. Choose Add to calendar to put the meetings in your calendar.
• The leader can edit or delete the study. A member can choose Leave study.

Your studies also show on Me, with the next meeting. The lessons of a study use the same ticks as the course.

Take the tour again

The site has two short tours. They show where things are, step by step. Each tour shows once by itself, the first time you open the page. You can take a tour again at any time. Log in first.

• Take the tour of the Me page
• Take the tour of a lesson page

On any lesson page or on Me, you can also choose the Need help? button, then Take the tour of this page.

Getting help

If something does not work, choose the Need help? button. It is at the bottom left of every page. On a small screen it shows as a round button with a question mark.

1. Write what happened.
2. Optional: write what you expected.
3. Choose Send.

The site sends the page you were on, and your last clicks. It never sends the answers you typed.

You can also write to admin@reviveschool.org. If you have a reference number from the help form, put it in your email.