Maintenance Set for Friday Night
The next Home Base maintenance is scheduled for Friday, May 21. Currently, PowerSchool is the only application currently set to undergo maintenance. All other Home Base applications will remain available.
The PowerSchool application will be brought down for one night only, Friday, May 21 at 7 p.m. and returned to service by 7 a.m., Saturday morning, May 22. The application will be made accessible to all users once maintenance is complete.
Note: Each year, a list of scheduled maintenance windows are published by NCDPI. This is published in advance to help teachers and administrators better prepare for temporary outages and loss of access. Please review the 2020-2021 maintenance schedule and put these dates on your calendar. In most cases, the entire window is not necessary and we can return systems to service earlier than listed. If emergency maintenance is required in addition to these scheduled dates, all users will be notified in advance.
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Get Your Canvas Courses Ready for the End of The Year!
Check out this beginning and end of course checklist for course instructors from Instructure, the parent company of Canvas LMS. The End of Course Practices section includes tips for verifying and exporting grades, exporting course content to use in a new course for next year, and how to export a copy of quiz statistics if desired. Contact your local Canvas Admin if you have questions about additional best practices for the end of the school year and when you will be able to access your courses for the 2021-2022 school year.
New Feature in Canvas: Student Annotation Assignment Type!
Educators can now upload a file as an assignment in Canvas and allow students to annotate directly in Canvas. Watch this brief tutorial video to learn more about this new feature in Canvas. Although annotations are supported in the Canvas Student app, this specific assignment type is not currently supported for mobile devices. If instructors want students to be able to annotate a document via the mobile app, they should also use the File Uploads submission type and provide the original file in the assignment description for students to download and annotate in the app.
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At-Home Learning Classroom Connection Lessons Available in #GoOpenNC
#GoOpenNC will be the permanent home for all of the At-Home Learning Lessons - a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. These short, video based lessons are available for grades PreK-K, 1-2, 3, and 4-5 in Literacy and Math. Lessons will be added to the collection as they are aired on PBS North Carolina.
View all available lessons with extension activities at: https://goopennc.oercommons.org/curated-collections/245
Summer Lesson Planning is Easy on GoOpenNC!
GoOpenNC will remain available to North Carolina Educators all summer long! Use the NCEdCloud to access GoOpenNC. You can easily save resources to custom folders to have ready for next year. GoOpenNC has over 36,000 instructional resources aligned to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
Premium Library Live for Districts to Plan for Professional Development
Premium Library is now live in NCEES.
Premium Library consists of high-quality, self-paced professional development courses from trusted professional learning vendors. Located in the NCDPI Home Base NC Educator Effectiveness System (PowerSchool Unified TalentTM Professional Learning) the Premium Library offers topical trainings.
Select free or pay-by-seat courses that address the needs of all learning environments, including: Remote Online Teaching, Social Emotional Learning, Compliance and Classroom Technology.
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Learn how to easily search, purchase, assign, and track professional development that will meet your educator's growth goals.
Recorded Premium Library Q&A Webinars:
Questions? Please contact Cami Narron, cami.narron@dpi.nc.gov
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NCEES End of Year
NCEES End of Year (EOY) will take place at the close of business on Wednesday, June 30th. Please plan to be completed with Evaluation and Professional Development Plans in the online tool prior to June 29, 2021.
More information can be found in the NCEES Updates Bulletin 5/14/2021.
IN ADDITION ...
Reminder: Broadband Resources for Families
Broadband services are being made available to families with limited or no broadband resources through the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program.
The Emergency Broadband Benefit Program gives low-income households a discount on internet services. The program, administered by the Federal Communications Commission, opened for enrollment on May 12.
Please spread the word by sharing this information with staff and others within your school district. For more information and answers to frequently asked questions visit the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program site at https://www.ncbroadband.gov/assistance/emergency-broadband-benefit-program.
Additional Teacher Nominations Needed for Standard Setting
This July, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI), in conjunction with Data Recognition Corporation (DRC), will conduct standard setting workshops for these areas:
- End-of-grade reading (grades 3-8)
- NCEXTEND1-- (reading (grades 3-8), English II, science (grades 5 and 8), and biology
Some teachers who had previously committed to participate are no longer available. NCDPI is asking principals and district-level personnel to nominate highly qualified candidates to participate in this important part of the test development process.
- General Ed teachers for NCEXTEND1 Reading (1 from each grade level)
- General Ed 5th and Biology for NCEXTEND1 Science
- EC or EL teacher for General Reading
Please email teacher first and last name, grade level, and teacher email to maxey.moore@dpi.nc.gov
Standard setting will take place the week of July 12. Teachers will be paid for their time, and if travel is required, travel expenses will be reimbursed at the state rate.
At the standard setting workshops, participants will be trained in all aspects of the standard setting process. No prior knowledge of standard setting is needed to participate. Panelists will use their knowledge of the NCSCOS or Extended Content Standards and their knowledge of students to recommend Achievement Level Descriptors (ALDs) and cut scores to NCDPI. The ALDs and cut scores will define our new levels of achievement.
Nominees will be contacted by DRC to complete an interest and availability survey.
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