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E-learning Advisors: Week 5 - 15
NCVPS still has a number of enrollment options at Week 4.  We also want to share a number of ways that schools can support their online students.  
Enrollment Options

Credit Recovery
Credit recovery enrollments will remain open through most of the semester.  If you have students who you need to enroll in CR, please update the student's email address and IEP/504 information in the registration system and then send the student's name, Wise number, school, and CR course needed to your regional consultant.
 
2nd Session Health
Enrollment is still open for our second session of health.  The class begins on 10/15 for early calendar schools and 10/29 for traditional calendar.

Transfer Students
School can transfer students into NCVPS classes. Transfer students must have seat time in front of a face-2-face instructor and must have a passing grade to transfer in with. NCVPS must also have an available seat. Transfers are not for students new to a course. Contact your VLC about transfer students.

Spring Semester
Enrollment is open for Spring 2013.

Funding
If your district uses 100% of its allotment totals, your district-level advisor can apply for use of our reserve fund.  Contact your district-level advisor if you receive a message in the registration system stating that you cannot use enroll any more students due to lack of funding.
Progress Reports & Grade Reports
 
NCVPS posts progress reports in the registration system every two weeks.  This is the best way to track your students' progress.  

NCVPS only reports weighted grades for two marking periods in block courses.  Each is weighted at 37.5%. Our yearlong courses have four weighted marking periods.  Each is weighted at 18.75%.  Final exams count as 25% in all courses.

Progress reports are unweighted grades.  Do not enter our UNWEIGHTED progress report grades into NCWise as WEIGHTED grades.  If you do this, your final grade averages will not match our final grade averages.

Check the calendar for specific dates of progress reports and grade reports. 

This link shows how to run progress and grade reports. 

This link provides more details on NCVPS grades.
Withdrawing Students
 
Throughout the semester you may withdraw students in the registration system.  NCVPS will issue a W grade for any students withdrawn after Day 10 of a course. Students withdrawn after Day 10 will still count in your district's allotment totals.  

This link shows how to withdraw students.
EOC and VOCATS Testing
 
If you have any students enrolled in EOC or VOCATS courses, be sure to send a copy of the enrollment reports to your testing coordinator.
 
Schools must administer all EOC and VOCATS tests.
SAR Reporting
 
Share your block and yearlong enrollment reports with your data manager.  Your school will need this for its SAR report.

This link shows how to retrieve our teachers' SAR data off the enrollment reports.

Contact for Help
 
Check out our Help Center to get the specific help that you need for yourself or for students.  See the Help Center here.  
Intervention Strategies
 

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 schools to follow.

  1. Have students contact their instructors during their office hours for live help.
  2. Try to establish a recurring time for student to meet with instructor (by Wimba, Pronto, or phone) for one-on-one tutoring.
  3. 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    .
  4. Establish peer tutoring with other successful NCVPS students at your school (if available).
  5. Have EC students meet with the school's EC specialist.
  6. See our list of assistive technologies.  Go to this link to learn more: http://goo.gl/eryLQ  
  7. Have students attend your school's review sessions (if available).
  8. Have students attend your school's tutoring session (if available).
  9. If the student is taking the course off campus, consider moving the student to a lab setting, especially if the student is not logging into the course.
  10. 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.  
  11. Establish weekly or bi-weekly contact with instructors of any at-risk students.
  12. 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.
  13. Have parents log in with the students at home and monitor their work.  Parents can communicate with the instructor, too.
At a Glance
Be aware of enrollment and withdrawal options.
 
Check progress reports in the registration system (every 2 weeks).
 
Share data for SAR reporting and EOC testing.
 
Check out our Help Center.

See intervention strategies for low-performing or under-performing students.
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