Day 15 Admin Drops
On Tuesday, Sept. 15, NCVPS teachers will complete the Day 15 Admin Drop process (primarily identifying which students have not logged in and/or submitted ample assignments). On Wed, Sept 16th by 11:00 AM, DLAs will receive the Admin Drop Report in the Registration System under "Reports". NOTE: the report lists ALL students. Scroll to column "AR". There will be two statements: "Admin Drop" and "Do Not Drop". DLAs will need to evaluate these marks, and any student tagged "Admin Drop" - verify this is correct; if it is, no action needed. If a student's record is tagged "Admin Drop" and should NOT be dropped, the DLA needs to send a "Priority" email to their assigned VLC with request NOT to delete the student, and include the following information:
- Student Name / Course / School / County / Section & Teacher if available.
NOTE: CORRECTIONS MUST BE COMPLETE BY 5:00 SHARP - Thurs, Sept 17th.
Click this link to find our Drop Policy.
Requests for Student Drops/Removals
Only medical/504 drops can be processed by VLCs after 5:00 on Tues, Sept 15th. DLAs must submit a drop request form for those drops. The Drop Procedure and Drop Request form can be downloaded from the DLA Spa > Quick Ref Guides > Drop Procedure > (the drop form is the second link listed).
Teacher Info for Data Managers
DPI has established a new process for sharing NCVPS instructor social security numbers for school data managers and the SAR report. NCVPS instructors are being issued Virtual Teacher Information Numbers (VTIN), and those will be shared with school data managers. Those VTINs will sync with the instructors' actual SSNs once entered into NCWise.
The VTINs will be available for data managers in the first week of October.
Final AP Syllabi Approved
AP Micro, AP Macro (both FLVS) and the AP German V (OSU) syllabi have been authorized by the College Board. That completes the approval process with the College Board for all of NCVPS's AP syllabi. The only outstanding ones were with the outside providers.
Professional Development from NCVPS
Discovery Education, the NCDPI and North Carolina Virtual Public School
cordially invite you to participate in an Interactive Thought-Leader Session:
21st Century Digital Modeling
in the Active Learning Environment
Keynote PANEL by Hall Davidson
Discovery Education Speakers Bureau
http://discoveryedspeakersbureau.com/node/15
September 18, 2009
1:00-4:00PM
German "Proctor" Requirement
German courses (taught by
The OSU proctor expectations for their assigned teachers is spelled out in the section ‘Teacher Information’ on the OSU homepage, http://germanonline.okstate.edu If you have students enrolled in German courses, please coordinate this proctor requirement ASAP.
Coaching Schedules for Chinese, Arabic and Russian
For any student enrolled in Chinese, Arabic or Russian, please complete the form at http://tinyurl.com/fall09student with details about when students can work with their coaches. Students will work with their coaches twice a week for 45 minutes each session. We will also need to have their Skype username, so DO NOT complete this form until that is available. Skype software can be downloaded at www.skype.com and needs to be tested on computers that the student will be using for coaching sessions.
If you feel that you have put incorrect information for a student, please complete the form again and resubmit. I will use the most recent information submitted.
Important Dates
Fall 2009 Early Calendar classes begin August 6.
Last day to enroll for Early Calendar: August 12.
Last day to drop for Early Calendar: August 19.
Fall 2009 Traditional and Credit Recovery courses begin on August 25.
Last Day to Register Traditional Calendar: Aug. 31.
Last Day to Drop Traditional Calendar: Sept. 8.
Registration Manual
Click this link to access the online user's manual for the new registration system. You can also find this in the DLA Spa in Blackboard.
Resource Guide
Click this link for an online resource guide for the Distance Learning Advisor.
Healthful Living and Health and P.E. Permission Form
DLAs, students you have enrolled in NCVPS's Healthful Living 9 week course or the Health and PE Course 18 week block course need to have their parent's permission as the course contains "Human Sexual Content." Completing this form is a requirement of DPI. Although you have registered your student(s) for the course, s/he (they) will not be put into the course until you have submitted the Parental Permission form.
You can fax this form to 919-513-2557, photocopy the form to Tammy Pearson at tpearson@dpi.state.nc.us, or you can snail mail the form to Tammy Pearson, NCVPS 1017 Main Campus Drive Partners I Building -Room # 1610, Raleigh, NC 27606
Please, make sure if you email the form to the parents of the students whom you have enrolled that they are aware that you have emailed them the form. This past semester the emailed form to the parent went into the parent's spam of her email account. It was by accident that this situation was discovered.
Download a PDF version of the form here.
Credit Recovery Survey
The NCVPS Credit Recovery staff works closely with the schools providing bi-weekly updates on Credit Recovery students to help keep you informed of their progress. To better serve you, we need some information on the Credit Recovery implementation at your school. If you could take a few moments of your time to complete a survey created to gather the informtion needed, we would greatly appreciate it.
For those of you that are new to the NCVPS Credit Recovery program, we have created several "training" pieces and published them in the DLA Spa under the Credit Recovery tab. We recommend you spend a few moments going through the training folder as it will help you understand the foundation and procedures for our program.
Link to Credit Recovery Survey
Message from DPI NCWISE Concerning Course Codes and EOC Testing for all Credit Recovery
Effective July 2009, credit recovery was redefined as earning credit for a course initially failed, either through partial modular remediation or taking the full course over again.
As a result:
1. Regardless of the amount or length of the course being repeated, the correct state course code for the subject must be used as designated by NCWISE. This includes courses taken through the NC Virtual Public School.
2. All courses (including those repeated by students who are recovering credit) must be entered into NC WISE. Courses must be entered either:
a. As a scheduled class (e.g., fall block, spring block, year-long), or
b. As a credit history record (e.g., summer school, afterschool, etc.).
Note: All course attempts must be entered into eSIS regardless of the outcome (e.g., failure, incomplete, credit awarded) and appear on the student’s transcript. It would not be appropriate to omit a course because a student failed the course.
3. When repeating all or part of a course that has an EOC requirement, all students taking the course must meet the EOC requirement.
a. If students are repeating the course and previously scored Level III or IV on the EOC, the student is NOT eligible to take the test again. In other words, once a student receives the proficiency standard, the test must not be administered again. For this student, the EOC score on record in NC WISE will be used as at least 25% of the student’s final grade in the course.
b. If a student is repeating a course and has failed to score an Achievement Level III or IV on the EOC previously, he/she is required to take the test again and the score must count as at least 25% of the final course grade.
4. To assist LEAs in monitoring who needs to be assessed at the end of the course and which students have EOC scores of Achievement Level III or IV on record, a new ABCTools report will be developed. The report will be by LEA by school by teacher. RACs will receive training on the new report in September.
For more details, please visist the DLA Spa in Blackboard.
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