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.
NCVPS E-lert - August 24, 2017 - Fall Edition I
CalendarCheck
Calendar Check
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

See our calendar for progress report dates. We post updates every two weeks throughout the semester. 
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Greetings!
Greetings, everyone! 

Students do not have access to their courses until Monday, August 28, but if they have been enrolled for more than 24 hours, they can log in to Canvas.

Many districts have their own Canvas login link. Be sure students enrolled in NCVPS courses are logging in at this link:

Some other good news. Our tech crew has created a workaround for OCS registration. You no longer have to initially enroll in the Dynamic section or find your section for additional enrollments. Just like other course enrollments, you can now click on any section to enroll. Watch this short screencast for details.

New Updates

Important Information







In addition, be sure to check out all of our tips and reminders in this week's e- lert .
StudentQuickStartNCVPS Student Quick Start Template
Schools can give students the NCVPS Student Quick Start Template before classes begin. It has a place for all the essential details to help students get started with their NCVPS courses. 

You will need to fill in some of the details or you can have students come to you and complete the details themselves. You can print the template for students, or you can copy and paste it into an email that you send to students.

Check out the NCVPS Student Quick Start Template here. Feel free to add your own details!
SemesterSuccessSemester Success with NCVPS
We have several processes that schools should follow throughout the semester to help students have greater success in NCVPS courses. 

Check out our Semester Success with NCVPS page for details.  
Fall2017UpdatesFall 2017 Updates


If you need access, contact our  Virtual Support Center here

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.

If you are new to the NCVPS registration system or need a refresher, visit our Registration System User's Guide here



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.


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.  

Check out our  Pre-Instruction Resource for NCVPS Students before NCVPS classes begin. 


I 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.

CTEwithOCSCTE 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.

ArtsPromoArts 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 Catalogfor a full listing of visual arts and musical arts. 

HealthFormsParental Permission form for Health and PE Classes

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.  
GradeReportUpdatesGrade Report Updates
Report Card
  CurrentGrades What Grades Are Currently Posted?

August 17 : Final Summer Grades Posted in the Registration System .

August 17: Early Calendar Day-3 No-Show Report Posted in the Registration System.  

August 23: Early Calendar Day-7 No-Show Report Posted in the Registration System.
ReportOverviewReporting 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.


RegSysNCVPS Registration System Update
NCVPS is making some upgrades to its registration system. These changes will be pushed out next week.

Here's a preview . . . .

SymposiumNCVPS 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.

Follow this link to register
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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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