The Virtual Campus is a secure intranet system, which has been developed for use in prisons in England and Wales, which allows students to access a range of information, communication facilities and other resources which would otherwise only be available online.

Students can use to the Virtual Campus to:

• View audio-visual material
• Take part in the module quizzes and interactive activities
• Complete interactive computer–marked assignments (iCMAs)
• Contact their tutor through a secure relay messaging service

Virtual Campus advisers (such as prison tutors, personal officers and probation officers) can also use it to:

• create and manage learner action plans
• send 'secure relay messages' to the learner
• view statistics for cohorts of students.

It is currently being rolled out to the majority of prisons in England and Wales.