We have opened up all courses available for approval, rather than the original sixteen listed. Currently, the following vendors have submitted requests for course approval: PLATO/EdOptions, EdisonLearning, Apex Learning, and Florida Virtual. Of these, none have submitted any documentation, narratives, or artifacts. We are working with them to expedite the approval process. 

If a Vendor wishes to seek approval, direct them to the following site:  http://www.ncvps.org/index.php/educators/vendor-approval-process/. 

Direct Vendor questions to don.lourcey@ncpublicschools.gov. 

A progress report entitled "Spring Block, YL, EC, CR 2012 Progress Report Due May 7th, 2012" will be posted in the registration system on May 9th.  This is an unweighted progress report.  

This progress report should not be used as for weighted report card in NCWise. 

Here are the fields on the report:

• Progress Grade:  numeric grades here for non-credit recovery and OCR courses
• Comment: for all
• Number of Modules: only for credit recovery courses
• Status: only for credit recovery courses

The NC WISE Year End Transition (YET) is processed the first week in July. This process updates school rosters with the 2012-13 school year assigned students. The student roster in the NCVPS Registration System will be updated 10-15 days after the YET process.  Prior to YET, schools get a preliminary listing of 2012-13 incoming students for their school. NCVPS does not receive any updates until after YET.

Enrolling rising 9th graders in an NCVPS course for either summer or fall can create conflict between the middle school and high school if the enrollment is not communicated effectively between the two schools. 

Wake County has a successful process that the district has agreed to share. Due to Wake's high enrollments with NCVPS, the district has an ELC (district contact) for both high schools (Tom Huffstetler, designated lead) and middle schools (Christina Zukowski). If you do not have a method for your district, you are encouraged to review Wake's process and perhaps customize the steps for your district's use. 

NOTE:  The following points indicate that a "dual enrollment" form is exchanged between the middle and high schools. This form is not provided, but one can easily be designed to include authorized sign-off space at both schools, and the student's NCVPS enrollment information.

WAKE COUNTY'S METHOD for ENROLLING RISING 9th GRADE STUDENTS IN NCVPS SUMMER OR FALL COURSES:

 Please adhere to the follwing steps so that everyone at both the middle school and receiving high school can be in the loop:

 1) The middle school ELA will fill out the "Dual Enrollment" form and fax it over to the ELA at the high school.

 2) The HS ELA will secure approval or deny and secure the principal's signature.

 3) The HS ELA will make a copy of the Dual Enrollment Form for their records and fax the original back to the MS ELA.

 4) Upon receiving the signed Dual Enrollment Form, the middle school ELA will enroll the student in the summer or fall course. 

 5) Once registration has ended, Central Services will send a spreadsheet of all rising 9th graders enrolled in a summer course (with the instructor's name and email) to the high school ELAs. (The ELC pulls this information from the district enrollment report, sorts by school, which provides the information needed per school.)

 6) The high school ELA will monitor the students that will feed into their school. 

Thank you, Tom and Christina! 

This important reminder is primarily for new schools that have students enrolled this year for the first time with NCVPS.

NCVPS grades are provided to schools via the NCVPS Registration System account in the "REPORTS" tab. (See how to download your grade reports here.)  

Data managers must input NCVPS grades into the student's record in eSIS. This is the ONLY way NCVPS grades are factored into the student's GPA. If this process has not been done throughout the year (for year-long courses), or weighted semester grades haven't been entered throughout the semester, it is imperative to backtrack grade reports and update student records with NCVPS grades in which the student and school intends and agrees to apply to GPAs and transcripts. The school data manager or the district data coordinator can assist with this process as needed.

Final grades for early calendar courses will be posted May 14. Traditional calendar grades will be posted June 5.

If your school needs final grades for graduating seniors in advance of the NCVPS schedule, specifically to assess student GPAs for awards and honors, be sure to coordinate with the assigned NCVPS teachers soon. 

Chanin Rivenbark previews the registration system's new funding formula features in this short podcast.  Please take a look!

You can see the full archived podcast here.

ELAs should contact their AP testing coordinator at your school to remind them about the importance of students inputting 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 in order NCVPS to receive a copy of their May 2012 test scores for our records.  These scores are needed as part of the accountability piece for NCVPS.  

If you have any questions, please contact Marcia Simmons at marcia.simmons@ncpublicschools.gov.

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