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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. If you are having difficulty viewing this email, you may view it as a web page here. |
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NCVPS E-lert – May 3, 2018 – Spring Edition XI (Summer Contact Info. Needed)
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Calendar Check
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Spring 2018 Dates
Start: Jan. 29, 2018
Drop/Add: Feb. 9, 2018
Last Day: June 1, 2018
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It time to start thinking about summer school. A solid district and school plan will help your students be successful. Please complete our Summer Contact survey below. It will help you jump start your summer planning.
Congratulations to our three ELA of the Year finalists!
See all the details below.
Important Information
Thank you, and have a wonderful week!
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| 2018 Summer Contact Information Needed |
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NCVPS needs the contact information for each school that registers students for Summer 18 classes. Students will need to know who the contact is, as well. Students can drop through our 10th day of class, and they need to know who to contact at the school or at the district level so that they can be dropped. Districts 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 school does enroll students in the coming weeks for Summer 2018, we will need this information.
If districts have their school-level ELA contact information in an Excel document, they can copy and paste that into the contact box on the link above.
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| NCVPSTalks Presentation Series Announced |
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The North Carolina Virtual Public School is sponsoring a new conversation series called NCVPSTalks. The NCVPSTalks bi-monthly series will facilitate a broad range of conversations about current and future topics of online and digital learning.
These focused conversations support the vision of building communities of digital learning leaders fully equipped to embraced the demands of 21st-century learning.
Registration for the first NCVPSTalks is now open. The first event will kickoff on May 11, 2018, 10AM.
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| 2018 ELA of the Year Finalists Announced |
NCVPS is pleased to announce its top three candidates for the 2018 E-learning Advisor (ELA) of the Year Award. NCVPS teachers and staff members nominated educators at the school and district level who have had a positive impact on their NCVPS students. Nominated ELAs consistently use innovative practices that can serve as a model for other schools or districts. Their practices improve the overall effectiveness of online learning and contribute to the success of students taking NCVPS courses.
Nominations included individuals working in various roles such as the e-learning advisor, lab facilitator, EC coordinator, data manager, principal, and the district e-learning coordinator. Nominees were then invited to submit a portfolio that showcases their e-learning program.
Here are the three finalists for the 2018 award:
Louise Carte – Mallard Creek High School, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Jo Ann Eckerd – Draughn High School, Burke County Schools
Erin Schneider – Orange High School, Orange County
NCVPS will now conduct phone interviews with each finalist to conclude the award process. A winner will be announced soon!
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| Live Online Support for Facilitators |
Dates and Times: Mondays from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Accessories: headphones, a microphone, or a headset
Details
NCVPS will maintain live online support on Mondays from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm to answer questions and resolve problems for facilitators. Drop in any time during that hour for questions you might have. We are looking for additional ways to support our school and at-home facilitators, and, as always, you can also contact us any time by opening a ticket with the Virtual Support Center. Who are facilitators? Anyone who might have direct contact with NCVPS students. This could be lab facilitators, e-learning advisors, graduation coaches, tutors, and parents. We’ve had a lot of experience facilitating NCVPS students and working with other facilitators.
Follow the access link above for more details.
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| Registration Open for 2018-2019 |
NCVPS registration for the 2018-2019 is now open. This includes Summer 2018, Fall Block 2018, Yearlong 2018-2019, and Spring Block 2019, and the early start calendars for both fall and spring.
Allotment Update Your 2018-2019 updated allotment totals are now posted in the registration system.
Catalog Updates
Our 2018-2019 Course Catalog is posted online. We have a few courses that are undergoing revisions, and they will not be offered next year. Arabic 1 and 2 Update
Please note in our catalog for next year’s classes that we are revising our Arabic courses. We will not offer Arabic 1 next year. We will offer Arabic 2 in the fall semester only, and then it will be archived for revisions.
If you have a student who needs Arabic 2, the fall semester is the only time that it will be offered.
French 3 and 4 Update
Chromebooks no longer support Flash content of any kind. NCVPS courses are compatible with Chromebooks except for French 3 and French 4, both of which use Flash content. We are rewriting both courses to replace the Flash content. The newly revised French III course is tentatively set to be released in Fall 2018, and the newly revised French IV course is tentatively set to be released in Fall 2019.
Until French 3 and 4 are rewritten, we recommend that students enrolled in those courses have access to full desktop or laptop computers and not just Chromebooks or mobile devices.
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| Spring 2018 Updates |
Course Access for Students
Remember to give students their usernames and passwords. NCVPS does not send login details to students. You can access login details for students by running an enrollment report in our registration system. Important Dates
Jan. 29 – Classes Begin
Feb. 1 – Day-3 Student Status Report Posted in the Registration System
Feb. 7 – Day-7 Student Status Report Posted in the Registration System
Feb. 9 – Last Day to Drop or Add Students
May 24 – Anticipated EOC Scores and CTE Grades Posted in the Registration System
June 1 – Last Day of Classes
June 7 – Final Grades Posted in the Registration System
NCVPS AP Test Codes
We would like to request that ELAs contact their school’s AP testing coordinator to remind them about the NCVPS school code when students take their AP tests.
Please have students input the NCVPS code (045) into the ‘Online Provider Code’ found on Page 1, Item G, of the student’s AP answer sheet during administration of the exam. This will allow NCVPS to receive a copy of their May 2018 test scores for our records. These scores are needed as part of the accountability piece for NCVPS.
Grades and Testing
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| Grade Reporting |
What Grades Are Currently Posted?
April 26 – Progress Reports Posted in Registration System
What’s Next on the Schedule?
May 10 – Progress Reports Posted in Registration System
Reporting Overview
See how your students are progressing! We post progress reports every two weeks in the registration system. These are unweighted grades.
Final Grade Report
Only our final grade report is a weighted grade report.
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 Grade Reporting Resources
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| NCVPS Culture Cafe |
The NCVPS Culture Cafe hosts hour-long online sessions for all students. Current, former, and prospective NCVPS students are welcome to attend!
The presentations are delivered by the faculty of NCVPS as ancillary instruction for interested students on a variety of cultural, gastronomic, historical, geographic and architectural themes related to the target languages of our World Language Department.
May 2018 Presentations
Cinco de Mayo
When: May 3th
Time: 9:00 PM
Presenter: Fanella Tague
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| Tech Updates |
Help Desk Issues with Certain Emails We are experiencing issues sending help desk responses to the following email domains: AOL
BellSouth
Carolina.rr.com
Roadrunner.com When submitting a Help Desk ticket, please use an alternate email address other than one of the above domains. We are working to resolve the issue.
Chrome Update
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More .
- Click Help
- Click About Chrome
- Relaunch
Opening a Ticket with the Virtual Support Center. The Virtual Support Center is our one-stop shop for resolving technical and other issues, including enrolling, course access, funding, withdrawals, advice, and special requests.
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.
Student Email Confirmations in Canvas
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.
Tech Requirements
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Workforce Ready is a new CTE course offering from NCVPS. The course will launch in the fall of 2018. We are building a teacher pool for the course, and we plan on opening three sections for fall.
In this course, students will look at what it means to be prepared for the workforce of the future. They will examine what soft skills employers seek and how to manage workplace communications and conflicts.See the full details of the course on our Workforce Ready webpage.
NCVPS is excited to share that we are partnering with NCDPI to take over the maintenance and support of the NCDPI Educator Effectiveness online professional development modules which are available to educators through Home Base/NCEES. These modules offer free, quality professional development on a wide variety of topics, and educators can receive CEU’s upon successful completion. Learn more about the modules at the following website: https://rt3nc.org/.For current users, functionality of the courses will not be impacted, but allcourses in Home Base Moodle platform will have an updated look as the branding is updated to reflect the NCVPS and NCDPI partnership.The updated look will roll out in late May. Additional information will be provided closer to the transition. Additionally, NCVPS will now provide user support for the courses formerly supported by NCDPI Educator Effectiveness staff.
Districts and schools need to complete our 
We would like to request that ELAs contact their school’s AP testing coordinator to remind them about the NCVPS school code when students take their AP tests.
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