Be sure to do a progress check on your NCVirtual students. We post progress grades every two weeks in our registration system. The last progress report was posted yesterday, October 27.

Here's what you can do.

1. Download the most recent progress report (see our download guide). Look at both the grades and the teachers' comments. Determine which students need assistance. If they aren't showing mastery (80%+), they can use some support. 
2. Reach out to our teachers for your students who need help. Our teachers have a number of support plans and will work with students to help them catch up. 
3. ELAs, facilitators, and parents can use the Canvas App or Canvas Portal to track student progress and communicate with instructors. If parents are interested in helping, this is the best way to do it. We also have a guide for parents and facilitators. 
4. If students are working off campus, consider bringing them back into a lab until they are passing. Logging in consistently and working are key to student success. 
5. Have students sign up for NCVPS Peer Tutoring. The link to the Peer Tutoring Center is on the home page of every course. Our Peer Tutoring Center offers many services, but these are the various support services:

• Peer Tutoring – Peer Tutors provide tutoring in specific content areas.
• Virtual Buddy – Virtual Buddies are select student volunteers who have agreed to work with NCVPS students who need more than content help in their online classes.
• Quick Questions – Services are available to all students at the start of the semester.
• Writing Center – Are students working on an essay? The Writing Center can help.
• Tech Support – For students who need some tech help with their courses.
• English Language Learners – Have your ELL students sign up for this.

   6. Be sure students are aware of our basic support structure:

• Teachers help with course questions and course content.
• The Virtual Support Center helps with technology issues in the course and login issues.
• Peer Tutoring Center can provide additional support.
• The school’s ELAs can help students with enrolling and withdrawing from a course and with transcript and report card questions about their NCVPS classes.

   7. See our full list of progress report action steps. 

   8. Chat with our virtual support team. Visit our Outreach Office Hours any day at noon. We are there to help! 

NCVPS Honors

Quality Matters, the industry standard for quality online course certification, honored NCVPS with the "Making a Difference for Students" award!

This award recognizes a K-12 organization or individual that has implemented QM Standards and processes, demonstrated impacts on learner outcomes and/or made significant contributions to learners’ experiences through instructional design, faculty professional development or related initiatives. Implementation should be either broadly transformative or significantly and directly meaningful for learners.

The honor represents the collective effort of many in our continuous pursuit of quality and excellence to progress student success. We are shining the spotlight on the NCVPS Curriculum team. They lead and vision this work. The team embraced the daunting charge of ensuring ALL of our courses meet QM standards and made it a reality. We knew we had a world-class course development process, and now the external experts have agreed!

German I and II for Spring

We are pleased to announce that we have both German I and II in our spring catalog. We are offering both on the Standard Start calendar. You can register for them now. Capacity is limited, so be sure to get a seat right away. 

Final Grade Reports: Option of Two Dates

Please remember that we only have two dates when we will post final grades:

Early Start classes: December 15, 2022

Standard Start classes: January 19, 2023

Please see our full announcement on final grade reporting. It's important for student success that schools follow this process.  

Student Life

Each month, our Culture Cafe and IworkNC Speaker Series offer interesting and timely webinars for all North Carolina students. Visit our Student Life page for details.

Digital Transition Webinars

Our professional development sessions feature interactive conversation webinars for educators. We have three sessions scheduled for November. Check out our Digital Transitions webpage for details and registration. 

Virtual Schools Network (VSN)

The VSN is a great opportunity for all the virtual academies and schools in the state. The VSN is a partnership between the Friday Institute and NCVirtual that supports virtual academies and programs in our public schools. The VSN creates capacity-building opportunities, designs quality courses, assesses technology needs, and establishes support structures to assist in scaling for size and planning for sustainability. Visit the VSN website to join the network today. 

Partnership Course Program

Let us provide the technology, content, training, and support to help your district develop its own virtual program! This program allows districts to expand their online course options while using their local teachers. See our Partnership Course Program page for details.

Did you miss an e-lert? Check out our previous news items and updates below.

Current Enrollment Options - October, 2022

AP Join Codes

No-Show Reporting

CTE Internships 

Social Studies Courses with Old Standards Added to Catalog

Health and PE 1/2 Credit Courses

AP Chemistry Course Materials

OCS Enrollments - Adding a Second Classroom Teacher 

TOT2 (Teacher Online Training) Registration Is Open

New District OCS Enrollment Option page

What Grades Are Currently Posted?

Oct. 27 - Progress Reports Posted in the NCVPS Registration System

What's Next on the Schedule?

Nov. 10 - Progress Reports Posted in the NCVPS Registration System

Progress Report Action Steps

What should your action steps be with our progress reports? We’re glad you asked! Visit our Progress Report Action Steps page for all the details.

A Snapshot of NCVirtual Grading Guidelines

See our Snapshot of NCVirtual Grading Guidelines for a quick overview of NCVirtual's grading and testing policies and procedures. Please note that NCVirtual teachers must adhere to the NCVirtual grading guidelines, practices, and procedures which can be found in our Grading and Testing Quick Reference Guide. NCVirtual teachers cannot adjust their NCVirtual grading guidelines, practices, and procedures based on a local school's or district's policy.

Reporting Overview

See our Grades and Testing Quick Reference Guide for an overview of our reporting. We have details on our Student Status (No-Show) Reports, Progress Reports, Final Grade Reports, and how we calculate grades.

Looking for online professional development? We have you covered! Check out our new subscription option for joining our professional development mailing list. The subscription button is found on both our Digital Transition page and the Teacher Online Training page.

In our Digital Transition webinar series, we share best practices for supporting students in learning online. You will leave with a toolkit of resources to bring to your face-to-face classroom into the virtual world!

Our Teacher Online Training course is a free professional development program for NC public and charter school teachers designed to prepare and support educators as they work in online and remote learning environments.

Our E-learning Advisor Orientation course will help support you in the role of E-Learning Advisor to NC Virtual students. Learn about the funding formula, the registration process, our grading policy, our valuable resources, and how to best support your online students.

The NCVirtual Office Hours meets each weekday, M-F from 12:00-12:30 p.m.

Teachers, administrators, parents, and students are welcome to drop in and have their questions answered.

As virtual learning has become a part of everyday learning for most families across North Carolina, many parents, guardians, and mentors continue to struggle with how to support their online learners in blended and online classes. To provide resources and strategies for how to support not only our NCVirtual students, but all online learners in North Carolina, NCVirtual has created two Supporting Online Students (SOS) video courses in Canvas. Both courses are free, open to the public, and do not require login credentials. Please share both links with your educational communities and parent networks.

The first course, Supporting Online Students – All NC, is general in nature and is designed for parents, guardians, and mentors of any student who is participating in a blended or online course or is enrolled in a fully online program regardless of school or grade level.

The second course, Supporting Online Students – NCVirtual, is specific to NC Virtual and includes specific examples, demonstrations, and resources for NC Virtual parents, guardians, and mentors.

The IworkNCVirtual speaker series includes presentations about career paths by those working in the field. We are now providing a platform for our students to gain insight and exposure to potential career paths. Sessions focus on Prerequisites & Education, Getting the Job, Daily Responsibilities (Micro), Industry Environment (Macro)

The Culture Café Café hosts hour-long lectures on various cultural topics in Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Latin, and Arabic to broaden our students’ cultural and world views. Topics include cultural, culinary, historical, geographic and, architectural themes. See the Culture Cafe calendar for upcoming events!

For students who have completed the first term of his/her second-year Japanese language course in middle/junior high or a senior high school and has maintained a 3.5 GPA in Japanese courses and an overall GPA of 3.0.

For more information, contact Ellen Hart or Revae Bostwick.

An online simulation of the global capital markets that engages students in the world of economics, investing and personal finance and that has prepared nearly 20 million students for financially independent futures. The team will have virtual money to invest in the stock market game that is offered by SIFMA Foundation.

For more information, contact Ellen Hart.

The Student Research Alliance is a unique opportunity for students to conduct original research on topics of interest. The goal is to provide a platform for innovation and to create resources for students to deepen their understanding of specific course content. For more information, contact Tiffany Grant.

The NCVirtual Coding Club is open to any NC high school students who would like to join. Complete this Google Form if you would like to join. For questions about the Coding Club, contact

ellen.hart@ncpublicschools.gov or

toni.hall@ncpublicschools.gov

NCVirtual has a mobile app, and Canvas has two mobile apps and a web portal. What does each one do? We're glad you asked! Here you go:

NCVirtual App: Stay connected with what's happening at NCVirtual. Think of these as "front office" notifications.

Canvas Apps and Web Portal: Connect with a student's course, see grades, due dates, pacing guides, and message the teacher.

Check out the guide on our Mobile Apps page to see when and where it's best to use each app or portal.

Thank you, everyone!

Your North Carolina students appreciate your dedication and hard work!

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