Does your school have a virtual learning environment?

[Immenseman]

Our school has just got one. Basically, everything is now done via the internet. Everyone has their own log-in, personal to them. They can receive messages on it and all work is set via the VLE (virtual learning environment). You can also access your email through it and access the school drives; allowing you to continue work at home without having to use a memory stick or email yourself. There is also chat and forums part where you can talk to everyone throughout the school via a forum, much like this one.

It's weirdddddd, anyone else have one at their school?

[clueless]

yeahh
we have the main school website where you can link to your email where you can send stuff home and theres a storage thing where you can just store files and access them from wherever and keep them there
and thens theres the VLE where teachers put up loads of stuff which is really good coz they put loads of revision stuff on it!
love it

[Fifteen]

Our school has just got one. Basically, everything is now done via the internet. Everyone has their own log-in, personal to them. They can receive messages on it and all work is set via the VLE (virtual learning environment). You can also access your email through it and access the school drives; allowing you to continue work at home without having to use a memory stick or email yourself. There is also chat and forums part where you can talk to everyone throughout the school via a forum, much like this one.

It's weirdddddd, anyone else have one at their school?

Yeah so does my college, find it well useful :)

[LoveToStack]

The school has its own network yeah but it's internal only, can't access it from the outside. I never really benefit from it :S

[Immenseman]

lol i love the school forums bit but i just tried to go on and i've been banned </3 newbies.

[clueless]

haha why were you banned
and we have a forum thing apperently but no one uses it!

[Immenseman]

just posting loads of rubbish and images :(

[Bevvie]

Yeah my school has that.

[Immenseman]

I thought our school was special. We only got it last week. This is what happens when I click on the forum...

http://uploadpicz.com/Immenseman/Z6R8K96.bmp

[Johno]

I would quite like something like this at my school but we have nothing similar, seems like its pretty useful (Especially for being able to access stuff from home)

[e5]

My headteacher was considering mini laptops in which we all did our work from that?

Other than that, everyone in the school has their own log-in anyway for I.T classes and such.

Sounds fun does yours. Saves paper is what I told my head :)

[UrbanRyan]

Ye, we've got a VLE system. We first had a granda learning one, now moodle.

[Immenseman]

Ours is called frog :eusa_danc

and yeah ell i think every school has their own log-in for IT lessons lol

[Bun]

yeah we've had one a while lol, it's alright.

[Immenseman]

our school is clearly behind with the times; i thought it was summet rly new lol

[Josh-lives]

we also have a VLE
but its not used for everything
it has like the courses for every subject, like modules and stuff
and you can upload your homework from school onto it,
and its only mainly used in ict,
and it doesn't have a chat thing either.
LOL

[Zokoli]

Yup.
My school has one, and I can access it at home. :eusa_danc

[Immenseman]

yeah that's the main reason for them so things can be accessed at home... lol

[Wootzeh]

my college uses moodle / i-site, it's alright ? :S

[Immenseman]

kl wootzeh xD!

[edgates]

my school were testing moodle, but I haven't actually got to use it, but we all have a separate logon and we can access our files from home, using ranger outpost. we can access our emails at home and also we use mymaths sometimes.

[Immenseman]

yeah i think most schools can use mymaths and check their school emails at home now. your school was probably testing it and will introduce it for september or something

[Plank]

My school uses Fronter. Had it about 3 years now I think. Forums, chat, shared network, documents and a hand-in folder are really useful on there. It's good to check news updates and school messages as well.

[Immenseman]

3 years?! christ, here's me thinking our school is using the latest technology

[myke]

Yeah, we do. its getting revamped though because our schools changing everything, and turning into a new school.

[Immenseman]

Yeah, we do. its getting revamped though because our schools changing everything, and turning into a new school.
too late to save you

[e5]

Ours is called frog :eusa_danc

and yeah ell i think every school has their own log-in for IT lessons lol
i thought u were suggesting you didnt cos u were like they have their own personal log-in that's all lol.

[Immenseman]

i mean for the VLE

[Jordan,]

Well our school got a whole network revamp in the summer new computers, servers 3TB storage lol they also got Klaiedos (RM) basicly everything to do with computers in our school is now RM lool, Anyway the VLE was ment to be up around january and all ready but guess what it wasent so, ive been asked to after exams to help set it up for next year lool the cheek of it

[N!ck]

Yeah, they've had it a while I think. Hardly use it though. http://vle.blue-coat.org/

[Shockwave.2CC]

I don't at my college
-crys-
:eusa_danc

[Hazza]

yeah we have a VLE its good.

[Immenseman]

maybe one day shockwave

[Shockwave.2CC]

maybe one day shockwave



Yeah maybe
but Leicester rarly gets good things :(
:eusa_danc

[Pyroka]

Used to have it in my old school, it was a load of pants.

We've got the Portal in college, however thats still pants as they've only just started developing it and only the IT groups use it. So yeah. :rolleyes:

[Immenseman]

CH 6th form > exeter college :lol:

[UKIP]

I hate all this virtual nonsense, just wastes time for teachers and if its anything like my school, the network crashes at least once a week. Back to basics I prefer, nothing better than a old teacher who knows their stuff teaching it on a board.

[Misawa]

I think one of the IT teachers when I was in education was one of the pioneers of bringing it to UK ed. He had conferences with Microsoft in London about it.

[Wolverhampton]

our school has had this for ages lol.

it's useful for revision and stuff, i guess.

[Bouncing]

yeah it's alright when you need it in our school, just able to put things on the database basicially and when you want the stuff you log in and save the document

[iChaz]

mine's frog too haha.
it's funny though because there's a little group of people from my year who are in the site "team" (random people)
who have classroom controls/are forum mods, got some guys pw and we were shutting down peoples internet in class, was quite funny.
don't see this working in the long run though, too easy for students to mess things up..

[Blinger1]

We used to have Moodle and in our last year the teachers kept telling us to check it.. so bloody annoying :(

[Titch]

we had it for last 3 years, been banned since week 1 from forums ;(

[leah]

Our school has just got one. Basically, everything is now done via the internet. Everyone has their own log-in, personal to them. They can receive messages on it and all work is set via the VLE (virtual learning environment). You can also access your email through it and access the school drives; allowing you to continue work at home without having to use a memory stick or email yourself. There is also chat and forums part where you can talk to everyone throughout the school via a forum, much like this one.

It's weirdddddd, anyone else have one at their school?
yeh we have an intranet :P

[PaulMacC]

Had one since 1st year

[Caution]

We have our own log-in, e-mail, access to the RM Shared Area + the intranet. It got updated when I moved up, which was about 3 yrs ago, so it must have been there a while.

[Tintinnabulate]

We have a **** one where teachers can upload files and we can upload our work / hw. Only the ICT teachers use it though.

[Oleh]

no but we are getting a 3d white board (***)

[luce]

we've had it since i've been there and only freaks use it like this guys posts like. HEY GUYS I MISSED BIO TODAY ANYONE WANNA POST THE HOMEWORK, erm no?

[Hushie]

Yeah but the school removed the forums, chat, profiles and anything else remotely interesting.
Coz we abused it apparantly

[Dean]

Yeh, I hate it and everyone complains because no one knows how to use it lol.

[Japan]

We have something called fronter or MLE
It's nice because it's got revision stuff and teachers can post homework on there instead of handing out sheets or books. There was even an e-mail section until the IT tech guys found out that we were e-mailing each other in lessons instead of working, and promptly blocked it.

[WalkingBootz]

At school we just used shared folders which got rather confusing but in college we had a VLE was really handy so that we could continue with work at home or submit assignments.

[Cyndia]

We have this thing called blackboard. Kinda useless though, only some of my professors used it, the majority didn't. And the ones that did use it were technologically impaired and always had issues with posting up lecture powerpoints and what not.

[The Professor]

Yeah we had one installed about 4 years ago. Thing is we just use remote desktop to get onto the school system from home and the school has a really organised drive structure which it puts the work and resources and stuff on and its had that since I joined in 2003. So yeah, its pretty redundant really. The only time we used it was when our english teacher thought it'd be clever to post some english homework on there last year but it broke and she got annoyed. We've not used it since :P

[Immenseman]

Well ours was only introduced like whenever I made this thread and is actively used.