About Us

About LearnNowBC

The LearnNowBC.ca web portal, created by the Virtual School Society, is a single point of entry to information about distributed (online) learning in British Columbia for students K-12, parents and educators. This one-stop educational portal provides access to choices and free services for learners of all ages.

LearnNowBC.ca has signed-up over 50,000 users and many of the users take at least one course online.  Most students who register for online courses are in regular schools and take these courses for reasons of convenience or accessibility. Other students, like those in rural communities, take online courses because of limited options in their area.

On LearnNowBC.ca, you’ll find:

• the Course Finder database, which includes information on more than 2500 courses offered by Distributed Learning schools in BC

• a Tutoring Centre that offers free tutoring for a number of academic courses

• an Advising Centre for Academic, Trades and Career  counseling

• Steve Dotto’s CyberSafety videos

• information about graduation requirements

• a Young Learning Centre for early learners

• teaching and learning resources that you can download from the Learning Resource Repository

• the online Daily Physical Activity (DPA) Tracker

About the Virtual School Society (VSS)

The VSS is an independent, non-profit Society founded in 2006.  It is supported through funding from the Ministry of Education.

The Virtual School Society’s purpose is to:

• enhance the achievement of students through distributed learning
• make British Columbia a leader in online educational programs
• promote distributed learning in British Columbia

Through ongoing consultation with students, parents and educators, we are able to continually update our offerings to ensure we are providing relevant programs and services for the LearnNowBC.ca users.

Our goal is to continue to expand services available for K-12 students as well as for parents and educators.