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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.
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NCVPS E-lert for May 5, 2016 - Spring Edition XV
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2016
April 21
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Progress reports for all classes posted in the registration system.
May 5: Progress reports for all classes posted in the registration system.
May 6: Early Calendar Courses End
May 12: Early Calendar Final Grade Reports Posted in the Registration System
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New This Week
Important From Last Week!
In addition, be sure to check out all of our tips and reminders in this week's e-lert
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 Summer ELA Contacts |
District Coordinators & Charter Schools,
NCVPS must know who the summer e-learning advisor is for each school that registers students. You may elect to have just one contact for the entire district over the summer.
Presently, you may not have any students enrolled in NCVPS summer courses, but if your district or charter does enroll students in the coming weeks for Summer 2016, we will need this information.
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| Spring 2016 Updates |
Early Calendar Courses End
Our Early Calendar courses end on Friday, May 6. This will be the last date that students have access to their early calendar classes.
Keep in mind that you may have early calendar students enrolled in our traditional calendar courses. You will need to contact those teachers directly for early calendar student grades. You can also allow those students to continue working in those traditional calendar courses if they need to! That's a local decision.
Grade Reporting
The latest progress report is posted in the registration system for your review. Look for the report with this title:
"Spring 2016 CR, Block and YL Progress Report Due May 3, 2016"
Course Extensions
The only course extension requests we are accepting at this time are for Early Calendar courses.
It is too early for us to make course extension decisions about traditional and block courses. The semester ends on May 6th for Early Calendar courses and May 20th for traditional, yearlong, and block courses.
Instructional directors start granting extensions on May 4th for Early Calendar and May 16th for traditional, yearlong, and block courses. The reason for this is there is still a lot of time left for students to work, and extensions are for those students who need just a little more time to finish the course. Two weeks will be the longest amount of time granted for qualifying course extensions. If large portions of course work are missing, an extension won't help the student. The student will need to be re-enrolled for summer or fall courses.
Of course we will work with student situations as we get closer to the end of the semester. We want our students be successful. What we need now is for the student to begin to work steadily and make progress in the course.
Please submit an extension request through the
Virtual Support Center on May 4th for Early Calendar courses and May 16th for traditional, block, and yearlong courses.
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| English 1 for English Language Learners |
In order to support the needs of English Language Learners (ELs) throughout the state, NCVPS is revising several core courses to include
SIOP and
WIDA-based supports for ELs. A subject-certified, WIDA and SIOP trained teacher will teach EL students alongside their Native-English speaking peers. The courses fully align with Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Math and include language development supports for all domains of language. EL students will have the opportunity to read, write, speak, and listen alongside their peers.
English I with EL supports will be offered starting Fall 2016, English II with EL supports will be offered starting Spring 2017. Math I with EL supports will be offered starting Fall 2017.
For Fall 2016 registration, in the NCVPS Registration system, please register EL English 1 students in the course titled EL English I (10212X0). English 1 students should still be registered in the course titled English I (10212X0). Please note - the course code is the same, but the titles distinguish an EL registration from a traditional registration. Our Instructional Directors and registration team will combine these students into single course sections and assign them to an 9-12 English-certified, SIOP and WIDA trained teacher who can meet the needs of all students More registration details for EL English 2 (to be offered Spring, 2017) and EL Math 1 (to be offered Fall, 2017) are coming soon.
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| Summer 2016 Updates |
Summer Registration is open!
Program Details
Allotments from Summer 2016 come from your NEW allotment totals for the 2016-2017 Academic Year.
Important Dates
Start Date: Monday, June 20
Last Day to Register: Friday, June 24
Last Day to Drop: Friday, July 1
End Date: Friday, August 12
Grades Posted: Thursday, August 18
Registration Details
Schools will not use PowerSchool to enroll as anticipated. The cross-LEA feature is not ready for release yet, and the need to register is impending.
We apologize for this inconvenience. We want our end users to have a good enrollment experience, and the cross-LEA feature cannot deliver that at this time. Fortunately, schools are already familiar with our registration system, so enrolling can proceed as usual.
Please remember that there is only one login per school. If your school already has access, you will need to share the login username and password.
Calendars
Summer Catalog
Catalog Updates for Summer Session
Middle School Success 101
Middle School Success 101 has been added to the
course catalog for Summer 2016.
Health and Physical Education
NCVPS will be offering the HPE - Health and Physical Education 1 credit course and the Health Education 1/2 credit in the summer. We will not be able to offer the Fitness-Physical Education 1/2 credit course because of the number of required videos students must submit to show mastery in four weeks. Also, it will be harder to see a change in the student's fitness level in four weeks.
Students will have eight weeks to submit videos to show mastery and change in their fitness rate in the HPE - Health and Physical Education 1 credit course because both Health and PE will be covered each week in the eight week summer session. The Health Education 1/2 credit will still be offered in four weeks twice during the summer session. If you have any questions, please contact Karen Creech at
[email protected].
NCVPS is moving all of its courses into the Canvas learning management system. Most of our courses will be in Canvas this summer, and the rest should be migrated by fall.
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If you need a flyer to give to students, please feel free to use this. Alex created both a color and B&W version.
Thank you, Alex!
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| Fall 2016 Updates |
NCVPS registration for the 2016-2017 academic year is now open. This includes Summer 2016, Fall Block 2016, Yearlong 2016-2017, and Spring 2017.
All enrollments are counted in your new allotment totals for 2016-2017.
Schools will not use PowerSchool to enroll as anticipated. The cross-LEA feature is not ready for release yet, and the need to register is impending.
We apologize for this inconvenience. We want our end users to have a good enrollment experience, and the cross-LEA feature cannot deliver that at this time. Fortunately, schools are already familiar with our registration system, so enrolling can proceed as usual.
Registration Details
Please remember that there is only one login per school. If your school already has access, you will need to share the login username and password.
Calendars
Catalogs
AP Computer Science Principles - New Course Offering
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A big thank you to all of our NC schools that allowed NCVPS to work with your students this past year in our Mastery Learning for First Time Credit program! Please take a few minutes to learn more about the program and how NCVPS can help you with your most challenging enrollment situations for students by clicking HERE . Mastery Learning can help when regular NCVPS enrollment options, Credit Recovery, or transfer options don't work for a student.
As we finish transitioning all courses to our new Learning Management System, Canvas, the last day for Mastery Learning for First Time Credit enrollments for Spring 2016 will be Wednesday, May 4th at 5pm. After this date, schools will want to consider NCVPS summer school options for students instead of Mastery Learning. Mastery Learning options will begin again in August. More details to come! Students who are currently enrolled in the Spring 2016 Mastery Learning courses will be allowed to continue working as planned.
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| Grade Reporting |
What's on the Schedule?
April 21 - Progress reports for all classes. Look for the report with this title:
"Spring 2016 EC, CR, Block and YL Progress Report Due April 19, 2016"
Report Details
See the details below for all of our reporting.
Progress Reports
See how your students are progressing! We post progress reports every two weeks in the registration system.
Grade Reports
Our grade reports are weighted grades similar to school report cards.
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 Resources
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| NCVPS Is Hiring Teachers |
NCVPS is seeking North Carolina certified teachers in a number of subject areas. Most of our instructors teach during the day for schools throughout North Carolina, and then they teach for NCVPS in the evenings. You may know some NCVPS teachers at your school or in your district. Join them in teaching with us! We also have teachers who only teach for NCVPS. These are often teachers who have retired or have found working from home better suits their needs.
We do have an application process that includes a professional learning course and teaching practicum. The skills developed in the course and practicum will enhance your classroom instruction, as well. You will learn new technologies and digital-learning strategies that can be applied anywhere. Also, our pay is very competitive and comparable to other online programs.
Right now, we have a critical shortage in math teachers, but we also have a high demand in other areas:
- AP Calculus BC and AB
- AP Computer Science A
- AP Computer Science Principles
- AP Human Geography
- AP Music Theory
- AP Physics 1
- AP Physics 2
- AP Psychology
- Chinese 1-4 and AP
- Japanese
- Math (all levels)
- Psychology
- Psychology Honors
- OCS American History 1
- OCS American History 2
- OCS Applied Science
- OCS Biology
- OCS English 1, 2, 3, 4
- OCS Financial Management
- OCS Introduction to Math
- OCS LDME/ Math 1
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Password Reset
If you have had your password reset, the new password will not expire unless you have reset it. 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".
Course Issues
When requesting help regarding a course it always easier for tech support to respond quickly if we have the specific section name, for example:
CourseSec01Spring16.
Opening a Ticket with the Virtual Support Center
When opening a ticket with the virtual support center, please always include the following:
- Student's first & last name
- PowerSchool ID number (This will help ensure we have the correct student)
- School name (full name, i.e. Eastern Mills High School, not EMHS)
- Course name - if the student is already enrolled, include specific section, i.e. CourseSec01Spring15.
If you need a new student account for a student who is new to PowerSchool (not just transferring schools), include the following:
- Your full school name (i.e. Eastern Mills High School, not EMHS)
- The student's first and last name
- The student's PowerSchool ID number
- The student's email address
- The student's phone number (the contact number this will be in PowerSchool)
- Does the student have an IEP? Yes/No
- Does the student have a 504 Plan? Yes/No
Replying to a Support Center Ticket
After you submit a ticket to the Virtual Support Center, you will receive a ticket confirmation and resolution via email. To expedite your resolution, please do not reply to the email. The email will have a link in it for your response. Please click on that link (see below).
This will put the ticket right back in the queue of the person who is working on your ticket. If you reply to the email, then that will have to be manually put into the ticket, and that can delay the process by several hours.
Student Email Confirmations in Moodle and Blackboard
Please have students confirm/update their e-mail. Here's how to do that:
In Moodle:
Navigate to Administration
My Profile settings
Edit Profile
Verify or update e-mail
Scroll to bottom and "Update Profile"
In Blackboard:
Click on students name in the upper right side of your BB course
Click on setting
Click on Personal Information
Click on Edit Personal Information to update e-mail if it's incorrect.
Scroll to bottom and Submit
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.
Student Logins:
Students, are you having difficulty locating your class? During the 2016 Spring semester NCVPS will be offering courses in three learning management systems, Canvas, Blackboard and Moodle. If you are unsure which platform your course is being offered in, please see the "Student BB/Moodle/Canvas Login" link below:
http://www.ncvps.org/index.php/student-bbmoodle-login/
JAVA and Flash Updates
Blackboard Instant Messaging (BBIM)
Students will need to click on the BBIM link in their class and create an ID and password that they will remember. NCVPS does not issue BBIM logins nor do we store this information.
Bookmark NCVPS Login Pages
Many students visit our homepage to log in to their courses. It is a best practice to bookmark the actual login pages for both Moodle and Blackboard. Please have students and lab facilitators bookmark the following pages:
In addition, many school administrators visit our homepage to log in to our registration system or Virtual Support Center. Please bookmark both of these pages in your web browser:
Tech Requirements
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| Lab Facilitator's Guide |
Do you have NCVPS students who are working in a facilitated lab at your school?
We have a lab facilitator's guide that
is designed to provide an understanding of the basic processes and procedures that successful online facilitators use to support students.
We reached out to North Carolina public schools and our partner schools in the Virtual Schools Leadership Alliance to pull together the most fundamental elements of facilitating online learning.
Each time we visit a facilitated lab in North Carolina, we see a new process, a new innovation, a or just a new way of thinking in supporting lab students, and we add that to our evolving guide.
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NCVPS Courses
NCVPS offers over 150 different courses, including advanced placement, electives, traditional, honors, core, STEM, occupational course of study, and credit recovery courses.
 Vendor Approved Courses
In addition to NCVPS courses, North Carolina public schools also have a list of approved third-party vendor courses that they may choose from for virtual classes. Please follow this link to see the list of approved vendor courses. More on the vendor approval process can be found here.
Here are the newest approved vendor courses: (Course Title - Vendor)
Courses -
Vendor
Edgenuity -
MS Math 6
Edgenuity -
MS Math 7
Edgenuity -
MS Math 8
Edgenuity -
MS Social Studies 6
Edgenuity -
MS Social Studies 7
Edgenuity -
MS Spanish 1
Edgenuity -
MS Spanish 2
Edmentum -
AP Literature
Edmentum -
Career Management
Edmentum -
Entrepreneurship 1
Edmentum -
Principles of Business
OdysseyWare -
English 4
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