Live Courses

All VLC courses include live meeting components where teachers and students meet in real-time online. Read more

Student Comments

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Turnitin

The Virtual Learning Centre now works with Turnitin.com to better prepare students for college and university by heightening our concerns around plagiarism. Read more

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Welcome to the Virtual Learning Centre

 

 

Student Success is our shared mission.

Welcome to the Trillium Lakelands District School Board's Virtual Learning Centre. The Virtual Learning Centre has been offering Ontario Secondary School students a wide range of flexible, and well designed high school courses since 1997.

The VLC offers students a full range of learning opportunities powered by the latest online technologies available. A partner with the Ministry of Education and eLearning Ontario, our aim is to provide a full range of courses available to students anywhere.

All of our courses are taught by highly qualified Ontario teachers who understand how to blend the power of synchronous, streamed communication with the flexibility of static, anywhere-anytime course content. Students succeed in our program and our attrition rates (under 20%) demonstrate that our program works for most learners.

We are committed to setting very high standards for distance learning and know that the student-teacher interaction is key to student success. For this reason, we encourage all of our students to attend web meetings, and to adhere to the course schedule and all due dates. This level of rigor builds a strong work ethic and forges a classroom and school community thereby preparing our students for post-secondary studies.

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School Start

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome staff, students and parents back after a gloriously warm summer break! We will have a number of new students joining us ...

Monday, 23 August 2010

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New partnerships forged

I am pleased to announce that the VLC has expanded their provincial partnerships to include the Ontario eLearning Consortium. The consortium consists of a number of Ontario school districts and ...

Friday, 25 June 2010

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Exams

Well online exams are always an experience! We have had some power outages and storms on day one and an earthquake (no less) on day two. Students who follow our ...

Thursday, 24 June 2010

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Fall Registration

Fall registration for Semester I courses is now open to new students. Returning students should have already registered and are permitted to register in June but no longer have guaranteed ...

Thursday, 27 May 2010

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Specialist High Skill Major Online!

I am pleased to announce that our specialist high skills major program has been approved. Any student entering grade 11 is eligible to apply for this unique opportunity to align yo...

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

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Completing work

The Ministry of Education has now released an updated Assessment and Evaluation document called Growing Success.   Review of this document articulates and supports practices already in place within the VLC. It ...

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

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Fall Registration

Returning students should be thinking about their fall course selections now. We will be opening the course application engine for the month of May. This will be exclusively for students ...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

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Summer School

The Virtual Learning Centre will offer limited summer school offerings this July. Grade 10 civics and careers as well as a grade 11 credit recovery math for students who were ...

Tuesday, 13 April 2010

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New Programs at the VLC

I am pleased to announce that we are building on our success with the Dual-Credit grade 12 writer's craft course we offered in semester I (students earn both a high ...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

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Washington Post Article: Learning Online

An interesting article from Sunday's Washington post. Traditional Schools aren't working. Let's move learning ...

Monday, 29 March 2010

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Progress Reports

Teachers have been busy creating progress reports for students for whom they have concerns in regard to course progress to date. As we continue to move toward a largely paperless ...

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

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Guidance Position

Please join me in welcoming Mr. Greg Roe to the guidance position with the VLC. Mr. Roe will be taking the place of Ms. Shannon Kuypers who is out on ...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010

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Literacy Test Tutorials

All students who are required to write the grade 10 OSSLT have been contacted by phone and email and will have the opportunity to attend live question and answer sessions ...

Thursday, 4 March 2010

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Courses now full

All courses in our program are now completely full and there will be no additional course offerings until the summer semester. During the summer, we are likely to offer only ...

Thursday, 4 March 2010

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Grade 10 Literacy Test

April 8th is the established date for the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT).   All students who plan on graduating with a diploma from the Virtual Learning Centre are required to ...

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

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Confirmed Semester II Courses

All Semester 2 courses have been confirmed and are running.   We appreciated your patience.    If you applied after February 4th, you are a late applicant and you will be contacted.  If your application has been ...

Friday, 12 February 2010

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Returning student logins

Returning students from Semester 1 will have their login and passwords reactivated throughout the week as courses begin, so please check everyday.   If your login and password does not work by February ...

Monday, 8 February 2010

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Semester II start date

Confirmed semester II courses will begin the week of February 8th, 2010.   As courses continue to be confirmed, they will be added to student's timetables.    Once courses are confirmed for new applicants, a ...

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

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Great opportunity for student's interest

Media Awareness Network:     Youth Films International is now accepting applications for their March, 2010 Ethical Documentary workshops series! Six-week series led by Discovery Channel Producer Frances MacKinnon and other industry professionals. ...

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

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Open School

I am pleased to announce the opening of a new program called OpenSchool. (www.openschoolontario.ca)   OpenSchool is a special online program designed to fit the needs of students who are not finding ...

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

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Proctor instructions

  Proctor Information Sheet   Thank you for agreeing to supervise an examination for the The Virtual Learning Centre, Trillium Lakelands District School Board. The following instructions are to assist you in your ...

Monday, 25 January 2010

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Semester II Registration

We have received many applications for semester II courses and are in the process of planning a timetable and reviewing our staffing needs. If you selected your Semester II courses ...

Thursday, 14 January 2010

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Mr. Rowsell and the Olympic Games

The following note from Mr. Blake Rowsell who we will miss in semester II.     I am excited to be working as an Events Services Manager at the Whistler Creekside Olympic Venue. ...

Thursday, 14 January 2010

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Student Opportunity

I would encourage any students interested in applying to serve on the Minister's Student Advisory Council to carefully read this ...

Monday, 4 January 2010

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