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Districts and Charter Schools,
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.
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NCVPS E-lert - August 17, 2017 - Summer Edition IX (Summer Final Grades Posted)
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2017 - 2018
Summer 2017 Dates
August 11: Last Day Summer Classes
August 17: Grades Posted
Fall 2017 Dates
August 14: Early Calendar Start
August 17: Early Calendar Day-3 No-Show Report Posted
August 23: Early Calendar Day 7 No-Show Report Posted
August 25: Last Day to Drop Early Calendar
August 28: Traditional Calendar Start
August 31: Traditional Calendar Day-3 No-Show Report Posted
Sept. 7: Traditional Calendar Day-7 No-Show Report Posted
Sept. 7: Early Calendar Progress Reports Posted Posted
September 11: Last Day to Drop Traditional Calendar
Sept. 21: Progress Reports Posted
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Greetings, everyone!
Final grades are posted for summer classes.
Fall preparations are in full swing.
Here are the full details . . . .
Important Information
In addition, be sure to check out all of our tips and reminders in this week's e-
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 Art Classes with NCVPS |
NCVPS has a great arts program! If you are looking for electives for students or if you have students who wish to take higher-level art classes, please check out our section. See our Visual Arts page and check out the NCVPS Catalog for a full listing of visual arts and musical arts.
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| Parental Permission form for Health and PE |
 If you have students enrolled in HPE Health and Physical Education, Fitness-Physical Education, or Health Education, please see our
NCVPS Health and Physical Education
page to download the parental permission forms if your school does not have any. These forms should be kept on file at your school.
This page also include prerequisites, strategies, and best practices to ensure your students complete these courses successfully.
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| NCVPS Registration System Update |
NCVPS is making some upgrades to its registration system. These changes will be pushed out next week.
Here's a preview . . . .
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| Summer 2017 - End of Semester Tips and Reminders |
The end of the semester is here, and we have a few tips for schools to help close out the summer session.
Timeline
Be familiar with the last day of class for the summer session. Students will lose access to their courses at midnight on the last day of class. Students will not be able to submit assignments after the last day of class!
Mark these dates on your calendar for the close of Summer 2017 classes:
August 11: Last day of summer courses.
August 17: Traditional calendar final grades posted in the registration system.
EOC and CTE Testing (No Summer NCFE Testing)
Schools must administer all EOC and CTE tests. There is no NCFE testing during summer. Schools will also need to average the EOC and CTE scores into the grades that we post for those courses. If you've not already made arrangements with your school's testing coordinator, please do that right away. Our final grade report will have EOC and CTE anticipated scores for your testing coordinators.
Grades
NCVPS Grading Policies
You will want to be aware of our grading policy and how we weight grades, especially for EOC courses where you will need to calculate the final grade once you receive your test scores. See our
Grades Quick Reference Guide and how we calculate grades.
Schools must enter grades into PowerSchool. Be sure the data manager has access to the grade report and understands our grade calculations. Be sure to examine the spreadsheet closely to find the final grade. This will be essential when your data manage enters NCVPS grades into PowerSchool to avoid data entry errors.
Middle School Reporting
Middle schools should ensure that they use the NCVPS course codes so that their students can receive high school credit for the courses that they take with us. You can
find courses codes in our catalog here , or in the second column of any grade report.
If you have questions about a student's grade, you should send those directly to the student's teacher or submit a help ticket to the
Virtual Support Center.
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| Grade Report Updates |
What Grades Are Currently Posted?
August 10:
Progress Report with Expected/Anticipated CTE Grades and Anticipated EOC Scores Posted in the Registration system.
August 17: Final Summer Grades Posted in the Registration System.
August 17: Early Calendar Day-3 No-Show Report Posted in the Registration System.
What's Next on the Schedule?
August 23: Early Calendar Day-7 No-Show Report Posted in the Registration System.
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| Reporting Overview |
See how your students are progressing! We post progress reports every two weeks in the registration system. These are unweighted grades.
Final Grade Report
Only our final grade report is a weighted grade report.
Student Status (No-Show) Reports
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.
Additional Grade Reporting Resources
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| Pre-Instruction Resource for NCVPS Students |
Does your school start before NCVPS? We have a pre-instruction resource for each class that will give your students learning activities and prepare them for their NCVPS courses.
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| NCVPS 10-Year Anniversary Symposium |
The North Carolina Virtual Public School is turning 10! We are celebrating a decade in online teaching and learning and invite you to our
10-Year Anniversary Symposium. The Symposium will bring us together to connect, share, and learn about online and digital learning. We will commemorate the past ten years and look at the future of learning.
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| Fall 2017 Updates |
Waitlists and Course Capacity Issues
Don't panic if your students land the waitlist when you register them. Our instructional directors look at the waitlists daily to determine if a new section needs to be opened or if a current section needs to be expanded.
We do have a few courses operating at capacity, however.
Visit our Course Capacity: 2017-2018 list for details. If a student is waitlisted in a course that is at capacity, the only way the student will move off the waistlist is
if a student who is already enrolled drops the course.
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mportant Dates
Start Dates
Early Calendar: August 14
Traditional Calendar: August 28
Day 3 No-Show Report
Early Calendar: August 17
Traditional Calendar: August 31
*Find this document in the registration system. It will show which students have not logged in yet. Please contact those students.
Day 7 No-Show Report
Early Calendar: August 23
Traditional Calendar: September 7
*Find the Day 3 and Day 7 no-show reports in our registration system (click "Reports.") These reports show which students have not logged in. Please contact them to see if they need help or if they need to be dropped.
Last Day to Drop and Add
Early Calendar: August 25
Traditional Calendar: September 11
This is the last day districts and schools can drop students with no penalty for the student and no cost for the district or charter.
See the
NCVPS Calendar Page for progress report dates. We post updates every two weeks throughout the semester.
Program and Catalog Updates
Flex Enrollment Update
Fall enrollments for Flex will begin after the NCVPS Fall 2017 registration period ends, in mid-September.
The Flex option is not for schools that are on a different calendar than what NCVPS offers. It is for individual student situations for flex learning needs.
CTE Courses for OCS Students
NCVPS has four CTE courses that have additional resources for OCS students. If you have OCS students who need NCVPS CTE courses, please enroll them in our Career Management, Personal Finance, Principles of Business, or Marketing courses. These courses are not part of our OCS program, but they do have supports in place for OCS students. |
Help Desk Issues with Certain Emails
Chrome Update
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More .
- Click Help
- Click About Chrome
- Relaunch
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.
Student Email Confirmations in Canvas
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.
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