Central Office Distance Learning Coordinators and Charter Schools,
The North Carolina Virtual Public School is preparing for its summer session that begins June 11. If your district or charter school is enrolling students into our summer courses, it is essential that you complete the form with your summer contact information at the link below. NCVPS must know who the summer e-learning advisor is for each school that registers students. You may elect to have just one contact for the entire district over the summer.
Please
follow this link to identify your summer ELAs. Just district offices and charter schools should complete this form.
If you need to make a correction after you submit the form, please submit the form again with whatever correction you need to make. If you need to make a correction for just one school, you do not need to submit your entire list again.
Presently you may not have any student enrolled in NCVPS summer courses, but if your district or charter does enroll students in the coming weeks for Summer 12, we will need this information.
The schools and districts are responsible for the following items:
1) ensure that students are enrolled correctly
2) ensure that students have met the proper prerequisites
3) ensure that students have the appropriate texts and materials
4) ensure that students have internet access and a computer
5) assist NCVPS teachers in contacting students if there is a problem
6) drop students who are not participating by June 22nd
7) act as liaison between student and instructor when there is a communication problem or other problem
8) test students in EOC and CTE courses
9) record final grades
If you plan on having one summer contact, that person will need either the login information for each school or the central office log in. He or she will need to be able to drop students by Day 10, make last minute registrations, see the Admin Drop Report and the grade reports over summer.
All of your registered students need to know who their summer ELA is. Some districts will shorten to a four-day work week over summer, typically taking Friday off. Our last day to drop is on a Friday, and students who want to drop will have to contact the ELA if they decide to drop. Teachers are unable to drop students. That must be done by the ELA. Remember that we have to issue a grade for anyone on the roster after Day 10.
We do have an Admin Drop on Day 7, though. Any student who has not logged in and submitted his or her first assignment by Day 7 will be administratively dropped by NCVPS.
We offer two types of courses over the summer: credit recovery and traditional. Students must have failed the course before to take a CR course. The traditional courses are accelerated. These are our 18-week block courses taught in just 8 weeks. Each CR and traditional courses will require about 3 to 4 hours of work each day, five days a week. Please do not have ELAs enroll students in more than two courses! Even two courses will be very difficult to manage over the summer.
If you are having students work from a lab that is open 4 days a week, that will be a disadvantage if they do not have internet access from home for that fifth day. There are some strategies that can close that gap, though, if that is your plan. Contact your VLC for more information on that.
Final grades for early calendar courses will be posted in the registration system on May 14. Look for the grade report with this title: 
NCVPS is seeking your feedback as we continue to review and revise our processes and services. Please take a moment to complete the survey form below. Your feedback is very important and this will help us to determine what is working well and where we need to adjust in order to continue to serve your students. Please complete the survey no later than Monday, May 28, 2012. Thank you for your time.
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. 
This important reminder is primarily for new schools that have students enrolled this year for the first time with NCVPS.
