Virtual Learning Environment

 

Welcome to our student Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). New students joining BSB will receive log-in details when they start school. Our extensive VLE online resource is integrated within the School's curriculum and can be accessed at any time inside or outside of school hours.

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What is a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)?

A Virtual Learning Environment is a designed e-learning space. At BSB, this means that your son/daughter’s teachers can place electronic educational activities on the World Wide Web for your son/daughter to access from any PC with internet access at home or at school.

What sort of activities will there be on the VLE?

  • Links to applicable websites
  • Downloadable worksheets
  • Subject course outlines
  • Past papers
  • Interactive quizzes
  • Videos
  • Wikis (collaborative working)
  • Discussion forums
  • and more...

New activities are constantly being designed for VLEs and subjects are seeing new opportunities all the time. Sometimes your son/daughter could be asked to submit their work through the VLE.

Can I, as a parent, have a log-in to the VLE to see what my child is doing?

No. The best way to support your son/daughter in School work is to sit down with them and take an interest in their work. The VLE is just another textbook or exercise book, so we would advise your son/daughter logging on and showing you what he/she is doing.

Some Departments have far more activities than others. Why is this so?

There are a few reasons why this may be the case:

  • setting up courses does take teachers a long time to do and it may just take a while for all Departments to be up and running in the use of the VLE. We have set a target for all Departments to have a course outline and useful weblinks in place for all courses
  • some subjects may simply not have any useful activities in electronic form to be place on the VLE as the subject doesn’t lend itself to good e-links
  • some Departments, by their nature, will lend themselves more to electronic activities for use on the VLE. Remember, there are many things you cannot do on a VLE: have a debate or discussion, perform a play, play sports, public speaking, etc

If your son/daughter thinks there are some activities that may help them, then they should ask their teacher nicely to see if it is possible to put them up.