Here is a primer for all of your summer school informational needs.  Contact your VLC if you have any questions!

Contact Information

If your district or charter school has students enrolled for Summer 2012, be sure to complete this summer contact survey for our teachers.  They will need it immediately.   Follow this URL to the survey:  http://goo.gl/35qwa

Budget

Summer 2012 is included in the new fiscal year for 2012-2013.  When you are looking at your budget totals in the registration system, be aware that your summer enrollments are on the top 2012-2013 budget line. 

Checklists

We have checklists for the district-level and school-level advisors and for students.  Be sure enrolled summer school students have the links to their checklists. 

District and School Checklists are at this URL: http://goo.gl/VF1Lg 

The Getting Started Checklist for NCVPS Students (for Blackboard courses) is at this URL:  http://goo.gl/CPSfj 

The Getting Started Checklist for NCVPS Students Using Moodle (For students enrolled in Medieval Studies, Anatomy Honors, Art 1, Music Appreciation) ist at this URL:  http://goo.gl/mVfQO 

Important Links

Blackboard Login 
http://ncvps.blackboard.com/webapps/login/ 

Moodle Login

http://moodle.ncvps.org/  

Moodle Pre-Registration Orientation
http://moodle.ncvps.org/course/view.php?id=168   

E-learning Advisor's Portal

http://www.ncvpselaportal.org/  

Student Password Issues

Passwords will not work until the first day of the our Meet the Teacher program. That date is June 7. Please remember that students will not gain access to their courses for up to one business day after their enrollment.

If the student's password does not work on the first day of Meet the Teacher, go through the following steps:

1) Confirm that the student is enrolled and not waitlisted.

2) If the student is recently enrolled, remember that passwords will not work for 24 hours.

3) If the student is confirmed enrolled and it has been at least 24 hours since enrollment, then have the student submit an online ticket with our Help Center here: http://www.help.ncvps.org/   Click on "Open a New Ticket." The student or the E-learning Advisor can submit this ticket. Be sure to include the student's name, Wise number, and course that the student can't access.

4) If a student's password stops working anytime during the semester, have the student submit an online ticket with the Help Center.  

Important Dates

Class Starts: Monday, June 11

Last Day to Add: Friday, June 15.

Admin Drop Report posted in registration system: Wednesday, June 20

Corrections on Admin Drops from Schools to Teachers Due: Thursday, June 21 4pm

Last Day to Drop: Friday, June 22

Last Day of Class: Friday, August 3

Final Grades Posted: Wednesday, August 8

Full Calendar: http://goo.gl/EISfg   

The last day of class for NCVPS students was on Thursday, May 31.  Students lost access to their courses at Midnight Thursday.   Final grades will be posted in the registration system on June 5. 

Please remember that data managers need to enter grades into NCWise!

Here is what you will see on the final grade report: 

Credit Recovery

Final Exam:  This will show "Null."

Final Grade:  This will show "Null."

Comment:  If student mastered the course, you will see "PASS" in the comments section.  If the student did not master the course, you will see "FAIL" in the comments section.

EOC/CTE Courses

Grading Period 3: FIRST grading period grade will be here.

Grading Period 4: SECOND grading period grade here.

Final Exam:  This will show "Null."

Final Grade:  Final course grade will be here.  It will be 75% total of final grade.  Schools need to average in the 25% EOC / CTE scores to get the final grade.

EOC Achievement:  All EOC students will have anticipated score here.

Comment:  Should be a comment for every student.  

CTE Final Assessment:  All CTE students will have anticipated score here.

OCS SCORES  

This will show "Null" in all fields.

Yearlong and Block Standard Courses

This included all other courses(Non-EOC, Non-Credit Recovery, and Non-OCS).  The fields on this grade report will be:

Final Grade:  This is the final grade for the course.  It includes the course work grade (75%) plus the final exam grade (25%).

Grading Period 3:  The first grading period grade will be here.

Grading Period 4: The second grading period grade will be here.

Final Exam:  This is the final exam grade. 

EOC Achievement:  This will show "Null."

Comment:  Each student should have feedback in this column.

CTE Final Assessment:  This will show "Null."

 Do you have students enrolled in summer semester that have been waitlisted since May? If so, you may want to check to see if the "Non Public" (Y/N) data field in the NCVPS Registration System, student profile view, is noted "yes". If so and the student is a regular district student, you need to change the data field to "no".  (Enrollments flagged as non-public will not assigned a course section any sooner than the day before the first official day of the semester.)  

We have opened all courses available for approval. Currently, the following vendors have submitted requests for course approval: PLATO/EdOptions, EdisonLearning, Apex Learning, Florida Virtual, Oklahoma State University, and Aventa Learning. Edison Learning has submitted documentation, narratives, and artifacts for Algebra 1. This course has now been sent to the reviewers. The reviewers have 120 days to complete the process per course.  

We are working with all Vendors 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/. 

Please remind Vendors that the Course Approval Process is for teacher led, first time credit courses only. 

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

We have just found out Computer Programming is being revised and new content will be available from DPI at the CTE Summer Conference 2012. We need time to revise our course so it is aligned with the new standards and will not be able to have the course ready by Fall 2012. 

We are going to remove it from the catalog for Fall 2012, but the course will be available for the Summer 2012. We will revise the course in the fall and it will be ready for Spring 2013. We will contact you individually to make sure you drop the students from the Registration System for the Fall 2012.  

We hope you will be able to enroll your students in the course for either Summer 2012 or Spring 2013. If you have any questions, please contact Karen Creech at karen.creech@ncpublicschools.gov. 

We are so sorry for the inconvenience. 

Thanks, Karen Creech  

We have a new process to withdraw students.  E-learning advisors may now withdraw students in the registration system after the tenth day of class.  It's the same process as dropping students before Day 10.  

After Day 10, though, removing students will be coded as a withdrawal, and the enrollment will still count in the district's allotment totals.  We will issue a "W" grade for the student. Drops prior to Day 10 do not count in a district's enrollment totals.  Click here for more details.    

As you know, we are not offering Algebra I this summer as it is currently being revised to the Algebra I  Common Core State Standards.

However, we are also aware there are special circumstances when a student may need Algebra I aligned to the old 2003 Standard Course of Study this summer. For that reason, we have added a course to the registration system for the summer titled "Completer Algebra I (Students needing 2003 NCSCOS Algebra I)."  

This course was not added as an opportunity for students to accelerate. This course was added to accommodate those extreme circumstances when a high school student has not taken Algebra I yet and needs Algebra I aligned to the 2003 Standard Course of Study. 

If you feel you have a student meeting this unique situation, please contact Jennifer Nobles (jennifer.nobles@ncpublicschools.gov) to discuss the possibility of enrolling this summer.   

We have a great offering of NCVPS arts courses this summer.  

We have Art 1 and 2, Art of Game Design, Digital Photography 1 and 2, Visual Journaling, Non-Western Art History, Music Appreciation, and Music Business and Recording.

Check out our promotional flier here.