Case Study: Prince William County Schools achieves flexible anytime-anywhere learning, record enrollment and reduced overcrowding with D2L Brightspace

Prince William County Schools’ Virtual High School program offers students the flexibility needed to achieve their individual goals

Prince William County Schools’ Virtual High School (VHS@PWCS), a pioneer in online secondary education since 2000, needed to give students greater scheduling flexibility, ensure consistent master-course creation, and relieve overcrowded high schools—while meeting a new state requirement that every student take at least one online course.

PWCS implemented a blended learning expansion using D2L’s Brightspace and SoftChalk Cloud, centralizing course authorship with designated learning content authors and delivering anytime/anywhere courses to students and partner schools. The program saw a record summer 2013 enrollment of 760 students (a 20% increase), an average course pass rate of 90% and SOL pass rate of 91%, added 180 students through the blended expansion to ease overcrowding, and has served over 10,000 students since inception.

Prince William County Schools

Gina Jones

Administrative Coordinator