School connections are a direct connection to the Virtual School. Most likely, your home connection is via an Internet provider and a modem. Either of these two can slow down your transfer speed. There are many ways to connect to the Internet from home. Any valid email account will work with the Virtual School.
All Internet providers provide email accounts to their subscribers.
My monitor makes the words so small I cannot read them. Go to your monitor control panel, and adjust the resolution to 800 X 600. I can click where they should be, and it works. I just can't see them. Informal question and answer sessions and some quizzes and tests are taken right on-line.