Distance Education & Instructional Technology

Canvas Orientation sessions explain how to use Victoria College’s current Online Course Management System (Canvas). While the sessions do not cover course-specific material, they are designed to minimize the time needed to figure out how to use the technology so that students can spend their time concentrating on the course content. All new online students are required to attend one of the sessions. Any student taking an online course is welcome to attend. These sessions contain valuable information that can help increase the chance of success in online courses. Online and hybrid instructors may hold online or on-campus orientation sessions specific to their courses.

To register for a Canvas Orientation Session:

    Login to VC Pirate Portal
    Click the "Student Resources" menu
    Click the "Distance Education" link
    Click the appropriate link under "Canvas Orientation Sessions"

To register for a "virtual" or "online" session, click the link for the date you would like to attend and complete the registration.

To attend a "face-to-face" session, fill out your first name, last name, telephone, email, choose a session date you would like to attend, and click submit request to complete the registration. 

Distance Education Courses are courses in which the content is delivered completely over the Internet. Students may need to come on campus several times as determined by the course instructors for specific activities or for testing. Hybrid courses are courses in which the content is delivered through a combination of online and on-campus instruction. To take an online or hybrid course, students will need access to a computer with an Internet connection. Students can use any of the on-campus computers in the open computer labs or the library to complete their coursework. An online or hybrid course may require certain minimum hardware and software configurations on a student’s machine. Those requirements are the responsibility of the student. Interactive Television (ITV) courses are courses in which students and faculty meet in an interactive television classroom and interact with other students and/or faculty at a remote location.

Some online courses may require one to five proctored (supervised) exams during the semester. Proctored exams may be accomplished in the Testing Center on the main campus, the Gonzales Center, or an approved off-campus testing site at the discretion of the course instructor. All final exams for online classes must be proctored. Each instructor determines the need for additional proctored exam or exams.

Things to know before you register for an exam:

• The dates you are allowed to take the exam.
• Is the exam computer or paper based?
• Your course number (i.e. BIOL 2401.W2)
• Your instructor's name (i.e. Jerry Hamilton)
  
  

This information will given to you by your instructor; please contact your instructor with any questions before registering for an exam.

To register for a test follow the steps below:

• Login to your Pirate Portal
• Click the "Student Resources" menu
• Click the "Testing/Testing Appointments" link
• Click the "Testing for Online Courses" link
  
  

Tip: Any tests taken at the Testing Center, with the exceptions of the SAT or the ACT, will be scheduled through this online system. Be sure to remember your username and password so next time you can login as a Returning User. 

The Virtual College of Texas (VCT) is a collaboration of the Texas community and technical colleges. Although VCT courses may originate from any one of the more than forty public college participants in the state, they have the same tuition, admission procedures and requirements, and Texas Success Initiative requirements as Victoria College courses, and they appear on an academic transcript like any other Victoria College course. If a Victoria College course is not offered online or if the Victoria College online course is full, students may look for the course on the VCT website. Each course requested must be reviewed and approved to ensure that it meets the same course guidelines as the matching Victoria College course.

To reserve your VCT course:

• Login to VC Pirate Portal
• Click the "Student Resources" menu
• Click the "Distance Education" link
• Click the "Reserve a VCT course" link
• Enter your information and submit.

Fall & Spring Hours
Monday-Friday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Summer Hours
Monday-Thursday: 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Closed on Fridays

Physical Location
Betsy Wright Building
Building 9 on VC's  Campus Map