Studying with the VSL

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This page explains getting started with your study at Victorian School of Languages.

Your Teacher

At the beginning of Term 1, your teacher will contact you directly to introduce her/himself and explain in more detail the course requirements.

NOTE: Your teacher may change early in Term 1 as enrolments are finalised.

Printed material

A package of printed material will be posted to your home address at the begining of each term: This contains:

Coursebook

The printed Coursebook is the primary resource for your study. Divided into weekly Worksets, it includes teaching notes and explanations, reading texts and activities.

You should always start your weekly work here.

Work for Submission Booklet

You will also receive a printed copy of the Work for Submission Booklet.

This booklet is also divided into weekly worksets, each containing the activities to be submitted to you teacher for the week. These activities must be completed by handwriting your answers.

Each week, when you have completed all activities for the workset in your Work for Submission Booklet you will need to scan and save your work as a single PDF file and upload through the VSL course page. See the VSL course page for details.

Oral Lesson Booklet

Many courses also have a printed Oral Lesson Booklet. Your teacher will ask you to refer to this booklet during the fortnightly oral lesson.

If your course does not have a a seperate Oral Lesson booklet, activities for oral lessons will be included throughout your coursebook.

These are sent twice a year, and will be mailed to your school at the beginning of each semester. See your VSL supervisor to collect these books.

NOTE: You can access the PDFs of your course materials in the Resource Library in the VSL Course page. You may download a copy and print out the Worksets you need.

The VSL Online Course page:

Login to the VSL Course page to:

VSL Courses login page: http://courses.languages.vic.edu.au/webapp/index.aspx. Bookmark this page.

How to set your password

For security reasons passwords cannot be emailed to students. Instead you must set your own password. Click on the link below and follow the steps:

Password set/reset page (https://courses.languages.vic.edu.au/password_reset)

NOTE:

Listening tracks

Many Worksets have Listening tracks. These can be played:

Submitting your weekly Work for Submission:

MS Teams

At the VSL we use MS Teams as a classroom space. Your teacher will post useful information there, you may also do group work with other students and take part in group webinars.

Your teacher will send you the necessary details about getting started in Teams at the beginning of the year.

For general information about Teams see: VSL MS Teams Parent Information.pdf

Oral lessons

Seminars/Webinars

For VCE courses, several face-to-face seminars or online webinars are conducted through the year. These are a great opportunity to:

VCE School-Assessed Tasks

School policies

Support for parents/carers

The VSL provides the following support for parents/carers:


Modes of delivery

VSL Distance Education courses have different modes of delivery.

Interactive Coursebook
(handwritten
Work for Submission)
Coursebook
(handwritten or typed
Work for Submission)
  • Chinese
    Years 7 - 8, Units 1 - 4
  • Chinese SLA
    Units 1 - 4
  • French
    Year 10, Units 1 - 4
  • German
    Years 9 - 10, Units 1 - 4
  • Hindi
    Units 1 - 4
  • Indonesian
    Years 9 - 10, Units 1 - 4
  • Italian
    Years 9 - 10, Units 1 - 4
  • Japanese
    Years 9 - 10, Units 1 - 4
  • Latin
    Units 1 - 4
  • Spanish
    Years 9 - 10, Units 1 - 4
  • Arabic
    Year 10, Units 1 - 4
  • Chinese
    Years 9 and 10
  • French
    Years 7 - 9
  • Greek
    Years 7 - 10, Units 1 - 4
  • Indonesian
    Years 7 - 8
  • Italian
    Years 7 - 8
  • Japanese
    Years 7 - 8
  • Punjabi
    Units 1 - 4
  • Spanish
    Years 7 - 8
  • Vietnamese
    Units 1 - 4
  • German
    Years 7 - 8
  • Latin
    Years 7 - 10
    Acc 1 and Acc 2
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