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Preparing for Post-Secondary Through Online Learning

Many high school students share the same basic goal: graduate and begin a preferred post-secondary program. Most college and university students aim to graduate and enter into a preferred career. It seems like this should be a natural progression, but the transition from high school to college or university can be challenging. Students sometimes struggle … Read More

Virtual High School, Florida Virtual School, and D2L Complete Ambitious K–5 Curriculum Project

Elementary Course Suite Set to Launch at FLVS for the 2018–2019 School Year Virtual High School (VHS), Florida Virtual School (FLVS), and D2L have completed an 18-month course development project to write, design, and develop 36 elementary courses from Kindergarten to Grade 5. The project—which produced 34,903 pages of content—is one of the largest content … Read More

Cheating and Plagiarism

Learning to think and work independently is all part of the educational process. At VHS, we expect our students to take responsibility for their work and all of their actions in their courses. Sometimes the expectations to obtain a certain grade or meet a tight deadline leaves students feeling pressured to take short cuts and … Read More

What is Academic Honesty?

The persuasive essay, the lab report, the informative presentation – all of these tasks involve putting forth your ideas in efforts to convince others or to reveal what you’ve found in your research. In all cases, whether in your science, music, history, English or other courses, the support you gather, that is, the information you … Read More

Reap the Rewards: Citing Credible Sources

Using secondary sources effectively in your writing is an important academic skill to develop. It can be done by paraphrasing ideas from others or by using direct quotations from original sources. In either case, the source must be cited, and each referencing style has its own guidelines. Let’s take a closer look at these two … Read More

Introducing … Virtual High School: Weekly Edition!

Virtual High School is thrilled to introduce Virtual High School: Weekly Edition – A FREE weekly lesson! Virtual High School: Weekly Edition (VHS: Weekly Edition) is an initiative created by Virtual High School (VHS) using D2L’s Brightspace™ learning platform. VHS will produce a lesson of the week that has been inspired by stories from The … Read More

Cite it Right: Referencing Styles 101

MLA, APA – what do these letters mean? Chicago’s a city, right? The Modern Languages Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), and Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) are the 3 referencing styles used at Virtual High School. Each subject has a required style that should be used to properly cite the research used in your … Read More

What is Academic Honesty?

The persuasive essay, the lab report, the informative presentation – all of these tasks involve putting forth your ideas in efforts to convince others or to reveal what you’ve found in your research. In all cases, whether in your science, music, history, English or other courses, the support you gather, that is, the information you … Read More

The Link Between Lego and Organic Chemistry

Lego is awesome! Just about everyone has spent some time assembling the colourful little blocks. Only a few pieces and you can make a huge variety of shapes. Take a look at the three figures below. Each is made from the same set of blocks: four yellow 1×2’s, one green 4×4, and one red 1×1. But … Read More