E-lert for January 28, 2011

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Read the items below for this week's e-lert. Be sure to check out the reminders at the end for important information from previous e-lerts. Contact your virtual learning consultant if you have any questions!

Late Registration / Emergency Adds / Transfers [E-lert for Jan. 28, 2011]

LATE REGISTRATION
Late registration began on Jan. 24th, which was the first day of class for the traditional calendar. Friday, Jan. 28th will be the last day of late registration except for Credit Recovery courses. Schools can still enroll in Credit Recovery courses in the registration system through Friday, Feb. 4th. Late add registration for all other courses will close on Friday, Jan. 28th. Students will not move off the waitlist after that date.

EMERGENCY ADDS
You may contact your VLC to request an emergency add during the week of Jan. 31st to Feb. 4th. Only seniors who need a course to graduate and students with medical emergencies will be considered for late adds. Students added late will start in the first module and will be expected to complete all work in the course.

TRANSFERS
Students may still transfer into NCVPS courses. To transfer in, a student MUST be enrolled in the course with a face-to-face instructor, and the student MUST have a passing grade to transfer into the course. Contact your VLC to request a transfer. Students can transfer in until the beginning of the last quarter of the course.

Admin Drops and Drop Dates [E-lert for Jan. 28, 2011]

Due to the inclement weather and late starts in numerous districts, NCVPS will NOT conduct an administrative drop this spring. Districts will be solely responsible for dropping students. We will extend our drop date for non-EOC courses. Per the State Board, though, we must adhere to the Day 10 drop policy for all EOC courses. Therefore, DLAs will be able to drop students through the following dates:

EOC Courses: DLAs can drop until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 4.

Non-EOC courses: DLAs can drop until 11:59 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 8

Any student not dropped by those dates will receive a grade for the course. We can continue to withdraw students after those dates if they leave the school or if there is a documented medical/504 situation.

If you are unsure how to drop, follow this link: https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfwwcvfq_151g8hbctcf

Grade Reports [E-lert for Jan. 28, 2011]

The following grade reports were posted in the registration system on Monday, January 24^th:

Final grades for Fall 2010 block courses. Early calendar grades for Fall 2010 will be reposted in this grade report.

Midterm grades for Yearlong 2010-2011 courses.

Credit Recovery final grades for Fall 2010.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to inclement weather, many students and DLAs asked for additional time for students to complete their courses. If an arrangement was made with the instructor for an extension, the grades were left blank, and a "null" would show up in the grade report. We will update the grade report later this week and next week again. Teachers will also send grades via password-protected spreadsheets to the DLAs.

Grades for Outside Providers

Florida Virtual (AP Micro/Macro) and Oklahoma State (German language) will send grades directly to the schools. Here are the contacts for each school:

Florida Virtual

Denise Wink dwink@flvs.net (407) 513-3587, x3476

OSU

Sabine Lewis sabine.lewis@okstate.edu 1-800-423-6493

LEO Update [E-lert for Jan. 28, 2011]

LEO is on Twitter, #ncleonline. I want to brag on the great job you are doing with LEO in your schools. Please send me an email with some facts about your school and your students. No student names will be used, but I will use the name of your school and district. Send me facts; like how many students, how many hours, students graduating with college credits, students going to college with credits. Send me the good news and I'll tweet it out to Twitterdom!

If you have a link to share, even better. Send the details;

deborah.pedersen@ncpublicschools.gov

Is your school system interested in getting more students involved in Learn and Earn Online but you have more questions/concerns than answers? I'll be happy to visit, answer questions, discuss policy implications, anything I can do to assist.

Look forward to hearing from you,

Deborah Pedersen

deborah.pedersen@ncpublicschools.gov

Reminders [E-lert for Jan. 28, 2011]

DLA & SCHOOL MAINTENANCE

> DLA Contact Information - Be sure to update your contact information in the registration system. Follow this link to see how to update your contact information.

> Central Office Distance Learning Coordinator: Follow this link to watch a short video that shows how to check your district's enrollment, check grades, and enroll and drop students at the school level.


DISTRICT INFORMATION

> Find our course catalogues here: http://www.ncvps.org/index.php/courses/catalogue/

> To learn more about our OCS blended learning opportunities, please watch the follow two videos:
1) http://www.schooltube.com/video/71262ea7f4aecc0552ad/OCS-Part-1
2) http://www.schooltube.com/video/3e275d869bea24e5424f/OCS-Part-2

> NCVPS is seeking GO LIVE districts. With customized training and support, the GO LIVE initiative helps leaders develop solutions for e-learning and e-leadership. Click here for more details!

> If your district is enrolling home-schooled students, follow this link to see the new process: http://www.ncvps.org/parentstudent/homeschool/index.html


STUDENT SUPPORT

> Checklists: Follow these two links to our spring checklists:

DLA Checklist for Spring 2011: https://docs.google.com/View?id=df9w57c6_26hjzx23f9 Student Checklist: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Hiyou-5PJKKeAQMtE6p6Oo-efAGaTK7a_LfPhbXbR10

> Help Desk Information: The Presidium Help Desk has two procedures to help students who have forgotten their passwords or are having difficulties with Blackboard.
Follow this link to see these procedures. When students are having problems with content in the course, they should always contact their instructors.

> Follow this link to see a full list of assistive technologies that are beneficial for a variety of student disabilities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Am5iphYrw8o_gwzsWHvO3RhhhPop81tLyhfiB-WK4g8/edit?hl=en&authkey=COv327YI&pli=1#

> If your students need tutoring help, be sure to check out our Peer Tutoring Center by following this link.

E-lert for January 25, 2011

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Are you into networking and social media? Come join over 750 other educators who have fanned us on Facebook. Find our fan page at Facebook/ncvps

Follow the virtual learning consultants on Twitter at Twitter/MyVLC

This Week's E-lert

Read the items below for this week's e-lert. Be sure to check out the reminders at the end for important information from previous e-lerts. Contact your virtual learning consultant if you have any questions!

Waitlists [E-lert for Jan. 25, 2011]

We currently have over 19,500 enrollments. We will try to accommodate as many students as possible before January 28th, but we may run into capacity issues.

The following courses are closed:

Video Editing
Earth/Enviro Honors
Japanese Honors
German 1, 2, 3 Honors &4 Honors
Spanish 1,2 3 honors &$ Honors

If students drop the course before Friday, Jan 28th, other students would be moved off the waitlist.

Grade Reports [E-lert for Jan. 25, 2011]

The following grade reports were posted in the registration system on Monday, January 24^th:

Final grades for Fall 2010 block courses. Early calendar grades for Fall 2010 will be reposted in this grade report.

Midterm grades for Yearlong 2010-2011 courses.

Credit Recovery final grades for Fall 2010.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to inclement weather, many students and DLAs asked for additional time for students to complete their courses. If an arrangement was made with the instructor for an extension, the grades were left blank, and a "null" would show up in the grade report. We will update the grade report later this week and next week again. Teachers will also send grades via password-protected spreadsheets to the DLAs.

Grades for Outside Providers

Florida Virtual (AP Micro/Macro) and Oklahoma State (German language) will send grades directly to the schools. Here are the contacts for each school:

Florida Virtual

Denise Wink dwink@flvs.net (407) 513-3587, x3476

OSU

Sabine Lewis sabine.lewis@okstate.edu 1-800-423-6493

LEO on Twitter [E-lert for Jan. 25, 2011]

LEO is on Twitter, #ncleonline. I want to brag on the great job you are doing with LEO in your schools. Please send me an email with some facts about your school and your students. No student names will be used, but I will use the name of your school and district. Send me facts; like how many students, how many hours, students graduating with college credits, students going to college with credits. Send me the good news and I'll tweet it out to Twitterdom!

If you have a link to share, even better. Send the details;

deborah.pedersen@ncpublicschools.gov

Is your school system interested in getting more students involved in Learn and Earn Online but you have more questions/concerns than answers? I'll be happy to visit, answer questions, discuss policy implications, anything I can do to assist.

Look forward to hearing from you,

Deborah Pedersen

deborah.pedersen@ncpublicschools.gov

Course Catalogs Available for 2011 - 2012 [E-lert for Jan. 25, 2011]

Our course catalogs are now available for Fall 2011 and Spring 2012. Registration is not yet open for those courses, but you can include the course listings in any catalogs that your district is publishing.

Follow this link to see the available catalogs.