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Be Empowered - Know the Trends in E-learning

Do you need a quick and easy way to collaborate with coworkers or students?  Check out join.me here: https://join.me/ And watch the video here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=7wH4LXzswf4

E-learning Success Stories

ELAs, teachers, administrators, parents, and students, submit your stories here: http://goo.gl/MMt7t    Please tell how virtual learning has made a difference!

GenerationText SuperUsers 
Follow this link to nominate your SuperUsers!

 

Teach for NCVPS
NCVPS is actively recruiting teachers in all areas.  You must hold an SP II NC Teaching License and have taught for four years in North Carolina.  Check all the details here:  http://www.ncvps.org/index.php/teach-for-ncvps/

 

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New Items

Early Calendar Admin Drops

The admin drop list for early calendar courses has been posted in the registration system.  The report will list all of your enrolled students.  Scroll to the far right of the spreadsheet to view the "Drop ?" column.  The status for students marked for removal will be "ADMIN DROP."  Students who have not logged in and completed their first assignment in their early calendar course will be admin dropped.

If you do not wish for the student to be dropped, email their instructor right away.  Their email addresses are on the spreadsheet.  The instructor will have them removed from the admin drop list.

 

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Reserve Funds

If your district is using reserve funding for registration, please remember that you must use those reserve funds by the the Friday, January 13.  We will have more details on reserve funds next week.

 

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On the Calendar: A Look Ahead

Wednesday, December 14

 End of Early Calendar Courses

 Progress Reports in Registration SystemWednesday

 

January 11, 2012 

Progress Reports in Registration System

 

Thursday, Jan. 12

 Early Calendar Admin Drops Posted in Registration System

 

Friday, Jan. 13
 Corrections for Early Calendar Admin Drops Due to Teachers

Tuesday, Jan. 17
  Last Day to Drop for Early Calendar Courses 

 

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

 End of 2nd Yearlong Courses

 End of Traditional Calender Block Courses

 

Monday, January 23, 2012

 2nd Grades - Yearlong Courses

 Final Grades in Registration System - Traditional Calendar Block Courses

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School Usernames and Passwords

The e-learning coordinator (ELC) at the district office can now reset passwords for school and look up usernames.

Follow this link for directions:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZhbRzsiBzsVuwzXrEb8bUsHTRVlh6o-SqvC9RrQAp4c/edit

 

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Previous Items

OCS Enrollment

Once a school registers for an OCS Blended Learning course in the NCVPS Registration System, the school contact listed in the NCVPS Registration System will be sent an email requesting information for the school's classroom OCS teachers who will partner with the NCVPS content teacher.  NCVPS will not assign an NCVPS partner teacher to a school until the school provides the teacher information.   These emails requesting school information were sent out beginning on January 3, 2012.  Additional emails for newly enrolled schools will be sent out several times a week hereafter.  If your school contact has not received an email requesting classroom OCS teacher information, and it has been over three days since students were enrolled, please email Michelle Lourcey, michelle.lourcey@ ncpublicschools.gov.

If this information requested above is received by January 16, 2012, classroom OCS teachers will be contacted by their NCVPS partners during the week of January 17, 2012.  At that time, classroom OCS teachers will have access to their course sections in Blackboard. 

 

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NCVPS OCS Blended Learning program!

Want to learn more about the OCS Blended Learning program and its successes? 

Check out our webpage:  http://www.ncvps.org/index.php/courses/ocs-blended/

Here you can read about the program, read testimonials, and see the latest newsletter designed for the classroom partner teachers!

 

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Spring Registration

Registration for the Spring Semester will opened on November 14.  NCVPS will be communicating information out regularly regarding enrollments, waitlists, and any course capacity situations.  Please be vigilant in monitoring your enrollments.

 

SAS Computer Programming
SAS Computer Programming will be offered for Spring 2011 as a pilot. The course will not appear in the list of courses in the registration system or on the NCVPS course catalog. If you have students you would like to register for this course, please contact Karen Creech at - karen.creech@ncpublicschools.gov.

For more information on SAS Computer Programming, go to http://www.ncvps.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/NCVPS_SAS.pdf. You can download this flyer and share it with students. The flyer includes reasons why students should consider taking this course, career opportunities with SAS skills, a course description, and the prerequisites.

 

OCS Blended Learning
In order to register for NCVPS OCS Blended Learning courses for Spring 2012, please look in the NCVPS Registration System for the generic OCS Blended course in which you want to enroll students, such as OCS Blended Algebra I Spring 2012.  You may need to scroll until you find the generic section that is not associated with any schools.

Once you enroll students into a generic course, the system will create a section of that course for your school's students.

Courses available for Spring 2012 for OCS Blended Learning:
OCS Blended Learning Algebra I
OCS Blended Learning Applied Science
OCS Blended Learning Biology
OCS Blended Learning English I
OCS Blended Learning English II
OCS Blended Learning Intro to Math

NEW!  Once a school registers for an OCS Blended Learning course in the NCVPS Registration System, the school contact listed in the NCVPS Registration System will be sent an email requesting information for the school's classroom OCS teachers who will partner with the NCVPS content teacher.  NCVPS will not assign an NCVPS partner teacher to a school until the school provides the teacher information.   These emails requesting school information were sent out beginning on January 3, 2012.  Additional emails for newly enrolled schools will be sent out several times a week hereafter.  If your school contact has not received an email requesting classroom OCS teacher information, and it has been over three days since students were enrolled, please email Michelle Lourcey, michelle.lourcey@ncpublicschools.gov.

 

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Interventions for Low-Performing or At-Risk Students

If you have students who are low-performing, under-performing, or at-risk for any reason, NCVPS has a number of intervention strategies for districts and school to follow.

• Have students contact their instructors during their office hours for live help.
• Try to establish a recurring time for student to meet with instructor (by Wimba, Pronto, or phone) for one-on-one tutoring.
• Have student sign up for NCVPS Peer Tutoring, which is available for certain courses.  Go to this link to learn more:  http://goo.gl/GRkwT   .
• Establish peer tutoring with other successful NCVPS students at your school (if available). 
• Have EC students meet with the school's EC specialist.
• See our list of assistive technologies.  Go to this link to learn more: http://goo.gl/eryLQ 
• Have students attend your school's review sessions (if available).
• Have students attend your school's tutoring session (if available).
• If the student taking the course off campus, consider moving the student to a lab setting, especially if the student is not logging into the course.
• If you have students in EOC courses, but sure that they take part in our EOC Reviews that are in each EOC course.  Have them contact their teachers for more information.  
• Establish weekly or bi-weekly contact with instructors of any at-risk students.
• Check for progress reports and report cards in the registration system.  Updates are made every two weeks.  You may contact teachers directly between updates to check on student progress. 

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Why NCVPS Credit Recovery?

Why should you choose NCVPS credit recovery?

Because it is a program completely different from all other credit recovery options -- it focuses on the STUDENT and the differentiation that happens because of the powerful student/teacher relationship.

Learn more HERE!  http://www.ncvps.org/index.php/courses/credit-recovery/

Check out the Testimonial link!  

 

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Featured Links

Follow this link for details on our LOCK Webinar Series.  The series keeps district leaders apprised of NCVPS operations. 

Follow this link to the new E-learning Advisors Portal.

Click here for the NCVPS district calendar.

Checklists

Click here for the online District and School Semester Checklist.

Click here for the online Getting Started Checklist for NCVPS Students.

Registration

School-level ELAs, follow this link to SchoolTube to watch a short video on the registration process.

District-office ELCs:  Follow this link to watch a short video that shows how to check your district's enrollment, check grades, and enroll and drop students at the school level.

Find our course catalogs here:  http://www.ncvps.org/index.php/courses/catalogue/

If plan to enroll home school or private schools students into NCVPS courses through your districts, be sure to read this link first:  http://www.ncvps.org/index.php/parents/homeprivate-school/

DLA Contact Information:  Be sure to update your contact information in the registration system.  Follow this link to see how to update your contact information.

Credit Recovery

Be aware of the new State Board grading policy in credit recovery courses: http://www.ncpublicschools. org/docs/stateboard/meetings/ 2010/12/gcs/12gcs.pdf    This is for NCVPS and vendor credit recovery programs.

Please become familiar with the updated NCVPS IEP guidelines:  http://www.ncvps.org/index.php/educators/operations-guides/

STUDENT SUPPORT

Find information on your new Help Desk here:  https://docs.google.com/document/preview?id=1xIyjRZVIJGMHhSoz2K5EE7krBSN1RzUA70bOG7M1sV8

Follow this link to see a full list of assistive technologies that are beneficial for a variety of student disabilities:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Am5iphYrw8o_gwzsWHvO3RhhhPop81tLyhfiB-WK4g8/edit?hl=en&authkey=COv327YI&pli=1#

If your students need tutoring help, be sure to check out our Peer Tutoring Center by following this link.  http://www.ncvps.org/?s=Peer+Tutoring

 

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