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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 - March 9, 2018 - Spring Edition VI
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Spring 2018 Dates
Start: Jan. 29, 2018
Drop/Add: Feb. 9, 2018
Last Day: June 1, 2018
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Registration opens March 29. See the details below!
Important Information
Thank you, and have a wonderful week!
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 Registration for 2018-2019 Opens March 29 |
NCVPS
registration for the 2018-2019 academic year will
open on Thursday, March 29. This includes Summer 2018, Fall Block 2018, Yearlong 2018-2019, and Spring Block 2019, and the early calendar enrollments for both fall and spring.
All enrollments will be counted in your new allotment totals for the 2018-2019 school year.
Districts and charters will initially start with the same allotment that they received for the 2017-2018 school year. When DPI has the new projected allotment totals ready, we will update the registration system to reflect that.
Catalog Update
We have made a few adjustments. We now have additional offerings for early calendar.
We hope to add two new CTE courses (Employment and
Microsoft Introduction to Computer Science).
We also have a few courses that are undergoing revisions, and they will not be offered next year.
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| Coston Daugherty - 2018 NCVPS Teacher of the Year |
Coston Daugherty has been named the 2018 NCVPS Teacher of the Year.
Coston is in her sixth year with NCVPS and teaches Earth/Environmental Science. She also serves as an instructional leader with the NCVPS Teacher in Training and Practicum program.
Coston will represent NCVPS at the national level in the iNACOL Blended & Online Learning Teacher of the Year s
election process.
We know many of our schools know Coston. Please join us in congratulating her on a job well done!
We would also like to congratulate our other two finalists, Amy Lynn Rose and Lydia Richmond.
We appreciate what you do for North Carolina students!
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| Printable NCVPS Guides |
NCVPS has
Printable Guides
for students, facilitators, parents, and e-learning advisors.
Be sure your students have a copy of the
NCVPS Student Success Guide. They will find valuable tips on how to succeed as an online students.
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| Spring 2018 Updates |
Course Access for Students
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.
Important Dates
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
Enrollment Options After Feb. 16
We will still have a number of options for schools; however, please remember our funding limitations this spring. We can only accept late adds for seniors in credit recovery, transfer requests, and Flex Learning.
Credit Recovery: Credit recovery enrollment will remain open for seniors only until March 29, 2018. Please open a help desk ticket to seek enrollment.
OCS: Schools can continue to enroll in existing OCS sections throughout the semester. We cannot open new OCS sections after Feb. 9.
1/2 Credit Health and 1/2 Credit PE Courses: Registration for our 2nd 9-week health courses will remain open until April 13, 2018.
See funding limitations
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Transfer Students: After Feb. 9, we will begin accepting transfers for seniors who need a course to graduate in spring. They must meet our transfer criteria. Transfer students must already be enrolled in a traditional course at the school with an instructor AND have a grade to transfer in with. Open a help desk ticket to start the transfer process.
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| Grade Reporting |
What Grades Are Currently Posted?
March 1 - Progress Reports Posted in Registration System
What's Next on the Schedule?
March 15 -
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.
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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| 2018-2019 Dates Set |
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We have our calendar dates set for next year.
We are restarting our
Early
Calendar program to meet the needs of the growing number of North Carolina schools that have an early start to the school year.
We are rebranding the calendar as "
Early
Start
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Key Dates
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Summer 2018
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Early Start Fall 2018
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Traditional Fall 2018
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Early Start Spring 2019
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Traditional Spring 2019
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Start
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June 18
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Aug. 13
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Aug. 27
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Jan. 7
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Jan. 28
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June 29
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Aug. 24
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Sept. 10
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Jan. 18
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Feb. 8
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End
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Aug. 10
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Dec. 14
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Jan. 11
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May 10
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May 31
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March 2018 Dates Coming Soon
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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.
Tech Requirements
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