District Offices and Charter Schools,

 

The NCVPS E-lert is ready for your review.  Please forward to your school-level advisors and other stakeholders. 

 

If you are having difficulty viewing this e-lert, you can view it as a web page here.

 

Thank you, and have a great afternoon!
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Progress reports in the registration system.

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NCVPS E-lert
September 20, 2012
NCVPS The Virtual Advantage
Week4ELAWeek 4 for the E-learning Advisor
Follow this link to see what the school-based advisors should be aware of during Week 4.  See important details on how to support your online students throughout the semester and enrollment options.

Thank you, ELAs, for everything you are doing!
ProgressReportProgress Report Grades

A progress report entitled "Fall Block, YL, CR, EC 2012 Progress Report Due Sept 17, 2012" was posted in the registration system on Wednesday, Sept. 19.  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
Follow this link to see how to run a grade report.

See our full calendar of progress reports and grade reports (weighted) at this link.

See our Quick Reference Guide for Grades at this link.  
PeertutorPeer Tutoring Center

The NCVPS Peer Tutoring Center needs your help!!  

 

The Peer Tutoring Center is looking to improve our processes, streamline communications and add to our services to better support our NCVPS students.  To do this, we want your input.

 

Please complete the brief survey below by September 30, 2012.  Your input is crucial for the Peer Tutoring Center to fully serve our students' needs and your needs as an ELA.

 

Link to Form:  http://bit.ly/Pr7fwK 

 

Thank you!

 

Crystal Pullen and Gary Langner

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CRStandardsCredit Recovery Testing Standards
Based on information from NC DPI, course codes for Credit Recovery courses have changed based on the standards taught in the course.

The Credit Recovery courses currently in Registration for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 are for the courses based on the former NC Standard Course of Study standards and end in code (CR). 

Following our directive from NC DPI, NCVPS will be adding additional Credit Recovery courses in the Registration for Spring 2013 that represent the new Common Core and Essential Standards with a different end code (XR).   NCVPS assumes that any studentscurrently registered for Spring 2013 Credit Recovery need to recover the credit based on the the former standards. If this is not the case, students need to be dropped. 

Any students who need to recover a credit based on the new standards that rolled out this fall will need to sign up for the new course with the end code XR. These courses (with the end code XR) will trigger the EOC whereas the courses based on the old standards (with the end code CR) will not.

Please contact Michelle Lourcey (michelle.lourcey@ncpublicschools.gov) for any questions!
PasswordStudent Password Issues

If the student's password does not work or if the student can log in but sees no courses, go through the following steps:   

 

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

2) Make sure that the student is logging into the correct site.  Some courses are hosted in the Moodle platform and some are in Blackboard. Check the list here: http://www.ncvps.org/index.php/student-bb-logon/  

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

 

4) 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:

 

 
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, email address, and course that the student can't access. 

 

5) If a student's password stops working anytime during the semester, have the student submit an online ticket with the Help Center.  
NCAAReporting NCVPS Classes on Transcripts for NCAA Clearing House

We have been working with NCAA to get clarification on how to better help students who are trying to get clearance.  The NCAA understands that NCVPS can't award the grade as we are not degree granting and that the NC public school awards the grades.

 

We have one solution to share with schools systems. It has been suggested that schools document the classes on the transcripts as such:


Algebra I - NCVPS


Algebra I CR-NCVPS - (for the credit recovery classes prior to Aug 2011) - they will not accept CR classes from Aug 11 forward since we are not longer providing a letter grade.


You can also list the course ID to show the semester, etc: 

 

algebraIsec04spr11 - NCVPS 

 

This example helps them to see what semester etc. this course was taken when they are doing their evaluation as well.

 

By doing this, it will help the NCAA to know this was an online class with NCVPS and that we do not award the grades. Please make sure you designate NCVPS over just ONLINE CLASS.
NCVPS: The Virtual Advantage

NCVPS: The Virtual Advantage