Credit Recovery Updates [E-lert for Aug. 27]

Welcome to the Fall 2010 semester! My name is Jennifer Nobles and I am one of the Credit Recovery/Modular Learning Specialists with the NC Virtual Public School. I've worked with most of you before and look forward to working with some of you for the first time. You are receiving this information because you have students enrolled in Credit Recovery courses. If you are not the current DLA, please let me know and forward this email to the correct person. You'll also want to make sure the information is updated in the registration system.

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. I've created a survey to help gather the information. On this survey, you will be able to provide information about you and any other contacts such as lab facilitators that should receive the mastery charts and Credit Recovery updates. If you could take a few moments of your time to complete this survey, I would greatly appreciate it.

Link to survey: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/ncpublicschools.gov/viewform?formkey=dHVKcjhlUHdFX1k5WGRicFNFbTRVQkE6MQ

Updates for August 27, 2010

1. Teacher contact
You will be receiving emails from our Credit Recovery teachers introducing themselves and thanking you for your support of these students this semester. If you are not the person the teacher should contact or if there is another person the teacher should include in the weekly emails, please let the teacher know. If you have completed the survey mentioned above, we have provided the information to our teachers so they will know the best person to contact. The majority of our teachers work in the f2f classroom during the school day so they will not be available to students one-on-one until the evening times. Every Credit Recovery teacher will be available to work with students at least once a week via our Wimba, our live classroom, or Pronto, our secured instant messaging system, for those students who have computer access at home. For those students with no computer access at home, teachers will call students at least once a week to work one-on-one.

2. Incorrect Contact Information for Students
Some teachers will ask for your help with a new contact number for a student. Our teachers are required to call the student and have come across some disconnected or incorrect numbers. It will be helpful for students to update their contact information in Blackboard as well.

3. Please provide the id and password to your students.
The Blackboard username and password for each student can be found in the registration system. You will need to provide that information to the student. Our teachers can not provide ids and passwords to students. Also, please make sure you have the students logon at http://ncvps.blackboard.com and complete the Getting Started Unit (mentioned below) right away.

4. Getting Started Unit Please note, all students must complete the "Getting Started" unit including the quiz at the end of the section. This unit is setup on Adaptive Release meaning they must master each component before the next will open. Unit 1 will not open until the Getting Started Unit has been mastered. This unit will explain how to move through the course and will help the student have a smooth start to the course.

5. Training We have created several training pieces for those of you that are new to our program. The training folder is located in Blackboard in the DLA Spa under the "Credit Recovery" Tab. Reviewing the information in the training folder will help you understand the foundation and procedures for our program.