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Please forward this E-lert to your school-level stakeholders. We often have enrollment information for counselors, grades for data managers, tips for lab facilitators, announcements for testing coordinators, and strategies for school leaders, all of whom support your district's and school's e-learning efforts. If you are having difficulty viewing this email, you may view it as a web page here.
NCVPS E-lert - April 13, 2018 - Spring Edition IX (Live Online Support)
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Spring 2018 Dates

Start: Jan. 29, 2018
Drop/Add: Feb. 9, 2018
Last Day: June 1, 2018

See our calendar for progress report dates. We post updates every two weeks throughout the semester. 
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Greetings!
Progress reports are posted in the registration system. Please check on the progress of your students.

We will offer live online support for facilitators on Mondays from 12:30 to 1:30.  See the details below. 

See all the details below.

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Thank you, and have a wonderful week!
RegOpenRegistration Open for 2018-2019
NCVPS  registration for the 2018-2019 is now open. This includes Summer 2018, Fall Block 2018, Yearlong 2018-2019, and Spring Block 2019, and the early start calendars for both fall and spring.


Your 2018-2019 updated allotment totals are now posted in the registration system.


Our 2018-2019 Course Catalog is posted online.  We have a few courses that are undergoing revisions, and they will not be offered next year.  
 
Arabic 1 and 2 Update
Please note in our catalog for next year's classes that we are revising our Arabic courses. We will not offer Arabic 1 next year. We will offer Arabic 2 in the fall semester only, and then it will be archived for revisions.

If you have a student who needs Arabic 2, the fall semester is the only time that it will be offered.  
LiveSupportLive Online Support for Facilitators


Dates and Times: Mondays from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Accessories: headphones, a microphone, or a headset

Details

NCVPS will maintain live online support on Mondays from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm to answer questions and resolve problems for facilitators. Drop in any time during that hour for questions you might have. We are looking for additional ways to support our school and at-home facilitators, and, as always, you can also contact us any time by opening a ticket with the Virtual Support Center .

Who are facilitators? Anyone who might have direct contact with NCVPS students. This could be lab facilitators, e-learning advisors, graduation coaches, tutors, and parents. We've had a lot of experience facilitating NCVPS students and working with other facilitators.

We won't be able to fix technical problems during this hour, but we can help you open a ticket with our Virtual Support Center. Sometimes explaining the problem clearly helps the tech team fix your technical issues.

To communicate during the office hours, you will need headphones, a microphone, or a headset. The headphones help cancel out any echo while you're talking.

Follow this URL to access the office hours: https://ncvps.adobeconnect.com/oas/

You may be prompted to install the adobe application.  

Thank you and see you there!
APTestNCVPS AP Test Code
We would like to request that ELAs contact their school's  AP testing coordinator to remind them about the NCVPS school code when students take their AP tests.

Please have students input the NCVPS code (045) into the 'Online Provider Code' found on Page 1, Item G, of the student's  AP answer sheet during administration of the exam. This will allow NCVPS to receive a copy of their May 2018 test scores for our records. These scores are needed as part of the accountability piece for NCVPS. 
SpringUpdatesSpring 2018 Updates

Remember to give students their usernames and passwords. NCVPS does not send login details to students. You can access login details for students by running an enrollment report in our registration system.  


Jan. 29 - Classes Begin
Feb. 1 - Day-3 Student Status Report Posted in the Registration System
Feb. 7 - Day-7 Student Status Report Posted in the Registration System
Feb. 9 - Last Day to Drop or Add Students
GradesGrade Reporting
 
  CurrentPostedGrades What Grades Are Currently Posted?

April 11 - Day-7 2nd Session Health No-Show Report Posted in the Registration System

April 12  -  Progress Reports Posted in Registration System


April 26 -  Progress Reports Posted in Registration System

Reporting Overview

 
See how your students are progressing! We post progress reports every two weeks in the registration system. These are unweighted grades.



Only our final grade report is a weighted grade report. 



NCVPS posts student status reports after the third and seventh days of class. These reports indicate if students have logged in or not to their NCVPS courses. These reports are early warning indicators for schools.


NCVPS Resources
CultureCafeNCVPS Culture Cafe




April 2018 Dates

Chinese Zodiac Signs w/ the Confucius Institute of NC State 
When: April 10th
Time: 4:30 PM
Presenter: Dr. Yangling Yu

Carolina Navigators Cultural Festival
When: April 13th
Time: 9:00 AM
Presenter: UNC Students

Japanese Kanji 101
When: April 17th
Time: 8:30 PM
Presenter: Revae Bostwick

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Password Reset

If you have had your password reset through the Virtual Support Center, the new password will not expire unless you have reset it again. Occasionally, multiple people will request a student's password to be reset (i.e. the student, ELA, lab facilitator, and/or parent), so the password is reset multiple times. This, of course, causes confusion.  It's always best if only one person requests a password reset for a student. 

If you have forgotten what your password was reset to, you can look up the help desk ticket to access the new password or click on "Forgot Password" on the course login page.

Students should make sure that NCVPS teachers have their correct email addresses, and those email addresses should be confirmed in our Canvas learning management system. This will allow students to receive messages from their teachers and peers in the course forum.

Here's how to confirm student email addresses in Canvas:

Click on "settings" on your name in the upper right side of your course.
Click on "Add Email Address" under Ways to Contact on the right of screen.
Add your correct email if Canvas is not displaying your correct email.  
Click on "Register email."
Click the star next to your correct email address. 
 
 
For additional information, please see our Tech Requirements:
http://ncvps.org/technology-requirements 
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