March 16, 2020
Greetings, everyone!
This is an updated message from Friday, March 13, 2020. NCVirtual is implementing its COVID-19 Response Plan for all districts.
Current Enrollments
Students currently enrolled with NCVirtual can continue to access their online courses during school closing if they have internet access at home. However, we understand that students may face other burdens in addition to access.
Our teachers will be flexible with assignment due dates. Students will not be penalized for late work. Instructional teams are preparing plans to exempt students from assigned work while at the same time maintaining the integrity of their courses. These modified plans will relieve students of work (and stress) but will still teach the essential standards of the course. We will provide more details on this later in the week.
New Enrollments
Schools can continue to transfer students into NCVirtual classes. In response to statewide school closures, there will be no cost for these late transfers nor will they impact a district’s projected allotment for the 2020-2021 school year. We do, however, have our own limits based on teacher capacity. We are examining our capacity right now.
Here are the details for transfer enrollments.
- Students must be transfer students, i.e., they are currently enrolled in the course and have had instructional time with a teacher.
- Enrollments will not count toward the district’s instructional projection for 2020-2021, thus not reducing classroom teacher allotment for the next budget year.
- If schools are closed for a short time, the NCVirtual teacher will continue to work with the district teacher in a co-teaching capacity. Schools will continue to have access to the teacher and the course for the duration of the semester.
- Priority consideration for enrollment should be given to your tested courses, graduating seniors, and hard to staff courses.
