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 - July 27, 2017 - Summer Edition VI (Progress Reports Posted)
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2017 - 2018

Summer Dates

Start Date: Monday, June 19

Day 3 Status Report: Thursday, June 22

Last Day to Register: Friday, June 23

First Progress Report: Thursday, June 29

Last Day to Drop: Friday, June 30 

End Date: Friday, August 11

Grades Posted: Thursday, August 17

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

We have two weeks of summer school left! A new on has been posted today. Check it out to see how your students are progressing.

Be sure to check out our 10-Year Anniversary Symposium, and if you are opening a ticket with our Virtual Support Center, we have a new webpage that guides you through that process.

And here are the full details . . . . 

New Updates




Important Information




In addition, be sure to check out all of our tips and reminders in this week's e- lert .
EOYEnd-of-Year Transition Complete
NCVPS has completed its End-of-Year data sync. Our registration system is now updated with student data  that reflects NCDPI Powerschool data. 

If you experience any issues or concerns, please open a ticket with our Virtual Support Center.  
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
SummerUpdatesSummer 2017 Updates

June 19: Summer Start Date

June 22: Day 3 Student Status (No-show) reports posted in the NCVPS registration system. For details on this report, visit the Day 3 and Day 7 Student Status Report quick reference guide.

June 23: Last Day to Register

June 29: First Progress Report Posted

June 30: Last Day to Drop. Some districts and summer staff at schools are on an abbreviated summer work schedule by this date. Be sure your summer students know who to contact in the district if they want to be dropped. NCVPS cannot drop students. June 30 is the last day districts and schools can drop students with no penalty for the students and no cost for the district or charter school. 

August 11: End Date

August 17: Final Grades Posted




See the student checklist at this link. Be sure to send this link to your enrolled students.


GradeReportUpdatesGrade Report Updates
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  CurrentGrades What Grades Are Currently Posted?

July 27:  Progress Report Posted in the Registration system.

August 3 Progress 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.


Fall2017UpdatesFall 2017 Updates

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.    See the list of courses at capacity here.  If a student is waitlisted in a course that is at capacity, the only way the student will move off the waistlist is   if an already enrolled student drops the course.

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.
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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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