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| 2026 | Professional | Artificial Intelligence (AI) CEU/Licensure NCEES/NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity | Ways to Earn CEUs at NCVPS This quick guide outlines multiple ways NCVPS teachers can earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for licensure renewal. It highlights options such as eLC participation, NCVPS self-paced professional learning courses, NCDPI professional development resources, and the support resources NCVPS provides regarding AI. | Web Link | View |
| 2026 | Instructional | Accessibility, Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, | Ready-to-Use Announcement: Post-Assessment Attempts & Build on Last Attempt Do you teach the same course or assessment each term? Want a simple, consistent way to explain post-assessment attempts to students? This ready-to-use resource was created to help you clearly communicate that students have two attempts on post assessments and that Build on Last Attempt is enabled. You can copy and paste this language directly into your Canvas announcements to ensure students understand how to use both attempts effectively. | Document | View |
| 2026 | Instructional | Accessibility, Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, | Sample Accessible Announcement Layout | Document | View |
| 2022 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources, Technology Help | How to Import Announcements from One Course to Another and Delay Their Release Using Multi-Tool Do you teach the same course each semester? Do you want an easy way to reuse your announcements? This video will help, and your images will not break! | Video | View |
| 2026 | Professional | Best Practices, Policies & Resources | Using Artifacts in Teacher, Course Lead, & Instructional Leader Observations This guidance document clarifies how NCVPS teachers, Course Leads (CLs), and Instructional Leaders (ILs) should align observation artifacts to the correct role and observation tool. It outlines role-specific expectations, provides examples of appropriate evidence for teacher versus leadership observations, and explains why proper alignment supports fairness, consistency, equity, and contractual integrity across observation processes. | Document | View |
| 2026 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources, Best Practices, Technology Help | How to Record a Webcam Video, Screen Capture, or Audio Recording as a Feedback Comment in SpeedGrader This Canvas Instructor Guide article explains how teachers can use the Studio Capture media tool in SpeedGrader to record webcam video, screen captures, or audio recordings and submit them as feedback comments on student submissions. It walks through opening SpeedGrader, accessing the media recorder, selecting camera and microphone settings, choosing screen share options, starting and stopping a recording, previewing the media, and saving the recording as part of feedback. When speech is included, Canvas automatically generates captions to support accessibility. | Web Link | View |
| 2026 | Instructional | Accessibility, Best Practices, Technology Helps | Using Icons to Enhance Learning in Announcements and Feedback This resource explains how to use instructional icons intentionally to improve clarity, reduce cognitive load, and support accessibility in Canvas announcements and feedback. It outlines best practices for pairing icons with text, distinguishing between icons and emojis, and ensuring screen-reader compatibility. The guide emphasizes consistency, accessibility-first design, and appropriate use cases so icons support, rather than replace, written directions. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategies | Document | View |
| 2026 | Instructional | Accessibility, Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources | Teacher "How To" Guide: Using Icons in Canvas Feedback & Announcements This step-by-step guide shows NCVPS teachers how to download instructional icons from a shared Google Drive folder, upload them to Canvas User Files, and insert them using the Rich Content Editor. It provides clear directions for adding icons to announcements and SpeedGrader feedback, along with accessibility best practices such as marking icons as decorative and pairing them with text. The guide supports consistent, accessible communication across Canvas courses while reducing cognitive load for students. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategies | Document | View |
| 2026 | Instructional | Accessibility, Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources | Key: Icons for Instruction This resource provides a cross-curricular set of instructional icons designed to support consistency, accessibility, and reduced cognitive load across courses. The guide explains how icons can be used as optional visual supports alongside written directions in announcements and feedback. It includes a standardized icon key, accessibility reminders, and a link to the instructions for downloading and using the icons to enhance clarity without replacing text-based instructions. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategies | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources, Best Practices, Grades | How to View Reports for a Quiz in New Quizzes (Canvas Guide) This Canvas Instructor Guide article explains how to access and interpret the quiz reports available in New Quizzes. It walks teachers through opening the Reports tab for a specific quiz and generating three types of reports (Quiz & Item Analysis, Outcomes Analysis, and Student Analysis) that provide detailed insights into overall quiz statistics, item-level performance, outcomes mastery, and individual student results. The guide also includes steps for exporting these reports so you can use the data to inform instruction and support student learning | Web Link | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | TextAid User Guide This guide introduces NCVPS users to TextAid, a flexible text-to-speech tool that supports reading documents and web-based content. It explains how to upload files in Canvas for read-aloud support, customize reading preferences, and use the browser extension when available. The guide also provides clear workarounds for restricted school devices, helping students and teachers maintain access to read-aloud features across a variety of formats and platforms. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | ReadSpeaker Student Guide This guide helps students understand how to use ReadSpeaker, a built-in text-to-speech tool in NCVPS Canvas courses. It explains how to locate the ReadSpeaker icon, listen to course content read aloud, adjust voice and speed settings, and customize highlighting for easier tracking. The guide also includes a video tutorial and important notes about current limitations, helping students independently access and engage with Canvas content across devices. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | ReadSpeaker Teacher Guide This guide introduces NCVPS teachers to ReadSpeaker, a built-in text-to-speech tool in Canvas that increases accessibility and supports student comprehension. It explains how students use ReadSpeaker to listen to course content, customize reading settings, and access features like highlighting, translation, and word definitions across devices. The guide also outlines important limitations and when to use TextAid as a workaround, helping teachers provide inclusive, flexible learning experiences for all students. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources | JIT: ReadSpeaker vs. TextAid Teacher Guide This Just-In-Time guide supports NCVPS teachers in understanding how students use ReadSpeaker and TextAid for text-to-speech support in Canvas and beyond. It highlights the key differences between the two tools, when to use each, and how they improve accessibility for Canvas content, uploaded documents, and web-based resources, making it especially helpful for English Language Learners and students who benefit from read-aloud support. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Google Tools, Technology Helps, Digital Tools | NotebookLM NotebookLM is a tool from Google that allows you to upload PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs, Google Slides, and more. NotebookLM will summarize them and make interesting connections between topics, all powered by the latest version of Gemini's multimodal understanding capabilities. You create a Notebook and then upload sources. Notebook LM will summarize each source, and you can then interact with the tool by asking questions to analyze the information across sources. It will also create citations of the sources. How to access: You can access NotebookLM through your Google Workspace. | Web Link | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Google Tools, Technology Helps, Digital Tools | Google Vids Google Vids is Google’s new video creation tool that helps you easily produce professional-looking videos using AI. It can write scripts, generate scenes, add voiceovers, and automatically edit your footage. This tool is perfect for lessons, announcements, or quick tutorials. How to access: You can access Google Vids through your Google Workspace. It also integrates with Drive, allowing you to store and share your videos just like Docs, Slides, or Sheets. | Web Link | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Google Tools, Technology Helps, Digital Tools | Gemini Gemini is Google's powerful generative AI assistant. Think of it as your creative partner for brainstorming ideas, drafting emails, summarizing long documents, writing code, or simply getting answers to complex questions. How to access: You can access Gemini directly at gemini.google.com with your work account. You may also see Gemini features integrated directly into your Workspace apps (like Gmail, Docs, and Sheets). | Web Link | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources | JIT: Canvas Studio Canvas Studio is an interactive video tool built into Canvas. It lets you record, upload, share videos, and add quiz questions or discussions directly within the video. You can even import Creative Commons YouTube videos into Studio to share with students in a secure, distraction-free environment. Students can engage while they watch instead of passively watching. | Document | View |
| 10/8/2025 | Instructional | Best Practices, Grades | Course Extensions - Quick Reference Guide NCVPS grants course extensions for a variety of reasons. Summer courses have a 3-day extension window. All other courses have a 5-day extension window. Course extension requests must come from the school principal, ELA, or another school designee. Use this document to review the rules and steps for Course Extensions. | Document | View |
| 2023 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources, EC/IEP/504 Resources | How to Exempt Student From Graded Activity If a student needs to be excused from a graded assignment due to an IEP, 504 plan, or other approved accommodation, no action is required by most stakeholders beyond submitting the accommodation request. The NCVPS teacher can then mark the assignment as exempt in Canvas, ensuring the student's grade is not negatively affected while maintaining course integrity. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources, EC/IEP/504 Resources | JIT: Canvas Feature - Build on Last Attempt The Build on Last Attempt setting lets students retake a quiz but only see the questions they missed. Correctly answered items are not repeated. This feature keeps students from losing credit for items they have already mastered and helps them focus on what still needs work. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Best Practices, Policies & Resources | NCVPS Communication Choices This resource explains the approved ways NCVPS teachers may communicate with students and the expectations for documenting those interactions. It provides specific guidelines for texting, including when to involve parents/guardians and how to record conversations in the Communication Journal. | View | |
| 2022 | Professional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Grades, Technology Helps | JIT: Canvas-How to Retrieve Grades for Inactive Students Did you know you can access grades for inactive students in your course? If a student was enrolled and submitted work but then dropped your course, you can still retrieve grades for these students. | Document | View |
| 1/2023 | Professional | Best Practices, Digital Tools, Google Tools, Technology Helps | JIT: Google Tab Groups Teachers, do you ever have so many tabs open at a time that you cannot find the tab you are looking for? One of the newer Google features, Tab Groups, makes managing your tabs so much easier. A video on how to create more permanent "Bookmark" tab groups is also included. Check out the link to learn more! | Document | View |
| 12/2022 | Professional | Canvas Tools and Resources, Technology Helps | JIT: Multi-Tool to Adjust Assignment Due Dates for Individual Students The Canvas Multi-Tool feature helps you set up a course shell quickly and efficiently. Multi-Tool consists of three separate tools: a template creator, a module builder, and a due date modifier. Click on the link to learn how to use the due date modifier feature from the Multi-Tool feature. | Document | View |
| 10/2022 | Professional | Canvas Tools and Resources | JIT: New Quizzes - Assigning Quiz to Individual Student Did you know that the New Canvas Quiz Feature allows you to assign a specific student a quiz? When you utilize this feature, only the student specified in the quiz details can view the quiz. Click on the link to learn more! | Document | View |
| 10/2022 | Professional | Canvas Tools and Resources | Canvas: New Quizzes - Print a Quiz You can print your quizzes in New Quizzes. You can either print a quiz key with s shown or print a blank quiz with no s. Quizzes can be printed on paper or saved to your computer as a PDF file. | Web Link | View |
| 10/2022 | Professional | Canvas Tools and Resources | Canvas: New Quizzes - Moderate Settings The New Quizzes will allow you to moderate the setting for a student's quiz. This means you can provide individual students with additional attempts, adjust the time settings on a quiz for an individual student, or re-open the students' most recent attempt and allow them to resume the quiz where they left off. | Canvas | View |
| 2024 | Professional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Reports/Reporting | Canvas: New Quizzes Use this New Quizzes resource document to find help on using New Quizzes in Canvas. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Grades, Reports/Reporting | JIT: Canvas New Analytics Learn how to enable the New Analytics Feature in Canvas and start using New Analytics to track average course grades for student submissions using an interactive chart graph or table. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Leadership | Lead with NCVPS Instructional Leaders (ILs) are current and exceptional NCVPS teachers who care about the teaching we do, the content we teach, and our overall best practices. We also have IL positions that assist our Outreach & Support, Curriculum, Professional Learning, and TnT teams. Please explore possible leadership opportunities. | Document | View |
| 2024 | Professional | Policies & Resources | Teacher/Coach Handbook Access the live NCVPS Teacher/Coach Handbook that includes everything from expectations to pay dates. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Accessibility, Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, CEU/Licensure, Copyright, Curriculum, Digital Tools | Teacher Online Training 2 Go beyond the basics and learn how to advance your teaching success in the online environment through our FREE ToT2 facilitated course! This course is open to NCVPS teachers! | Web Link | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Policies & Resources, Reports/Reporting | Reporting Child Abuse & Immediate Danger Follow the steps located in this document for reporting child abuse or for reporting students who are in immediate danger. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Policies & Resources | NCVPS Student Code of Conduct To support students in achieveing their best in an NCVPS, you can share access to The NCVPS Student Code of Conduct. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Permission Forms/Letters | Parent Permission Letter: Health and PE Courses Access the parent permission letter for students taking Health and PE courses here. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Permission Forms/Letters | Parent Permission Letter: Food and Nutrition Courses Access the parent permission letter for students taking Food and Nutrition courses here. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Permission Forms/Letters | Parent Permission Letter: American Sign Language (ASL) Courses Access the parent permission letter for students taking ASL courses here. | Document | View |
| 2021 | Professional | Canvas Tools and Resources, Technology Helps | Adding Due Dates to Your Course Since course due dates can vary between Year Long, Block, Early Start and situations like 10/20 modified calendars, teachers are responsible for adding the due dates into their individual sections of the course. Use this information to learn how you can set up due dates in your courses. | Canvas | View |
| Professional | NC Wise Owl | NC Wise Owl: Britannica & EBSCO Resources: Professional NC Wise Owl offers Britannica & EBSCO Resources: Professional for NCVPS teachers. NOTE: You will need to log into your NCEdCloud account to access this resource. | Canvas | View | |
| 2022 | Professional | NC Wise Owl | NC Wise Owl: Britannica & EBSCO Resources: Grades 7-8, 9-12, AP/IB NC Wise Owl offers Britannica & EBSCO Resources: Grades 7-8, 9-12, AP/IB available through NC Wise Owl. NOTE: You will need to log into your NCEdCloud account to access this resource. | Canvas | View |
| 2022 | Professional | NC Wise Owl | NC Wise Owl Overview for NCVPS Teachers Check out all the resources available to you through NC Wise Owl. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Grades | Best Practices: How to Help Our Transfer, Late Add, or Unique Situation Students Need some helpful tips when dealing with various grade book and roster situations that may arise? Take a few moments to review the scenarios for immediate assistance. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Technology Helps | Best Practices: Teacher Home Page and Meet Your Teacher Forum As you set up your new courses, use this Canvas page within the Teacher Hub to review best practices for setting up your teacher home page and the meet your teacher forum. | Canvas | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Canvas Tools and Resources | Traditional: Canvas Ready Course Checklist Happy Start of the Semester! For Traditional teachers, use this Traditional: Canvas Ready Course Checklist to help you set up your traditional learning courses. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Canvas Tools and Resources | Blended: Canvas Ready Course Checklist Happy Start of the Semester! For Blended teachers, use this Blended: Canvas Ready Course Checklist to help you set up your blended learning courses. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Best Practices, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Technology Helps | NCVPS AI Guidebook The NCVPS AI Guidebook is the collection of various resources related to the usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by both NCVPS teachers and students within one location. To strive towards consistent implementation of NCVPS expectations regarding AI, all teachers must complete the five steps in this guidebook before the start of the semester and prior to assigning work. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Best Practices, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Technology Helps | NCVPS AI Attribution Guidelines Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can help us brainstorm, plan, write, or code. It's important to be honest about using AI, especially when it plays a big role in creating something. Giving credit or attributing shows integrity, helps others understand your process, and keeps learning clear and fair. Use these guidelines from NCVPS to give proper attribution. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Best Practices, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Technology Helps | Long Description Alt Text for AI Stoplight Graphic The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stoplight graphics are useful tools for explaining the NCVPS policies regarding AI use by students and staff. These graphics are not accessible by screenreaders and other users may have challenges reading the text. This document provides a long description of the image's content. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Best Practices, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Technology Helps | AI Stoplight Graphics Artificial Intelligence (AI) is part of the digital experience. Many students will use this tool, so NCVPS teachers should provide guidance and support for the ethical and appropriate use of AI within our virtual courses. These graphics can guide the discussion about the NCVPS policies regarding AI use by students and staff. This resource also includes the alt text and long descriptions needed for the accessible use of these images. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Best Practices, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Technology Helps | NCVPS Teacher AI Use Guidelines This document provides teachers with clear expectations and best practices for using artificial intelligence (AI) tools in instruction, planning, and communication. Teachers will find practical examples, ethical guardrails, and references to state and NCVPS resources to support effective and equitable AI integration in teaching. Review these NCVPS Teacher AI Use Guidelines to examine how you, as the instructor, can use AI effectively and ethically. | Document | View |
| August, 2024 | Professional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | JIT: Accessibility-Images Are your images accessible? This resource has 5 important tips to help you ensure your images can be viewed and understood by all users. Making our content accessible ensures all students and staff can access our content, resources, and tools. | Document | View |
| July, 2024 | Professional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | JIT: Accessibility-Using Accessibility Checker in Canvas When you create content in Canvas, a built-in Accessibility Checker tool will identify certain features that are needed for accessibility. At NCVPS, we want to ensure all of our Canvas content is accessible to all students and staff. Making our content accessible ensures all students and staff, regardless of physical or developmental impairment, can access our content, resources, and tools. Use this resource to learn more about the Accessibility Checker. | Document | View |
| July, 2024 | Professional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | JIT: Accessibility-Google Slides Do you know how to ensure your Google Slides presentations are accessible to all? This checklist will help you create accessible presentations for traditional and blended courses. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Canvas Tools and Resources | JIT: Canvas Calendar Tips Help your students stay organized, reduce missed deadlines, and boost engagement by making the most of the Canvas Calendar! From scheduling office hours to syncing calendars across platforms, these tools and tips make it easier for students to manage their time and stay on track, all in one place. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Best Practices, Technology Helps | CL Directions for NCVPS Course Syllabi and Interactive Pacing Guides This document outlines instructions for NCVPS Course Leads on organizing and maintaining course syllabi, course-at-a-glance documents, and interactive pacing guides in the new shared drive titled "NCVPS Course Syllabi & Pacing Guides," effective Fall 2024. | Document | View |
| 2019 | Professional | CEU/Licensure, NCEES/NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity | NCEES: Account Claiming Issues If you have issues claiming your NCEES account, click on the link. When claiming your NCEES account (if you do not work in a PSU/LEA), please use the following codes: NCVPS LEA: 299 and NCVPS School Code: 000. (Home Base, NCEES, NCEdCloud, NC Ed Cloud, RapidIDentity, Rapid Identity, professional learning) | Web Link | View |
| 2019 | Professional | CEU/Licensure, NCEES/NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity | NCEES: Claim Account For directions on how to claim your NCEES account, click on the link. When claiming your NCEES account (if you do not work in a PSU/LEA), please use the following codes: NCVPS LEA: 299 and NCVPS School Code: 000. (Home Base, NCEES, NCEdCloud, NC Ed Cloud, RapidIDentity, Rapid Identity, professional learning) | Web Link | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Best Practices, CEU/Licensure | Online Professional Development Resources Do you need professional development courses for licensure renewal? Check out this comprehensive list of available courses. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | CEU/Licensure, NCEES/NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity | Licensure Renewal: NCDPI Chart of Required CEU "Categories" This resource explains how to renew or update your Professional Educator's License and outlines the credit requirements for renewal. | Web Link | View |
| 2022 | Professional | CEU/Licensure, NCEES/NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity | Licensure Renewal: Open Culture (MOOCs) Discover Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from great universities. Most offer "certificates" or "statements of completion" to help you earn CEUs for licensure renewal. | Web Link | View |
| 2022 | Professional | CEU/Licensure, NCEES/NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity | Licensure Renewal: Online Professional Learning for Educators at the Friday Institute Do you need to earn CEU credits? If so, check out the Online Professional Learning for Educators at the Friday Institute. | Web Link | View |
| 2022 | Professional | CEU/Licensure, NCEES/NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity | Licensure Renewal: NCDPI Online Licensure System NCVPS offers professional development (CEUs) through Home Base, accessed via NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity. Explore information in NCEES and review the full list of available professional learning courses. | Web Link | View |
| 2025 | Professional | CEU/Licensure, NCEES/NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity | NCEES: Access as an NCVPS Teacher NCVPS teachers can follow these directions to claim their NCEdCloud account. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Professional | CEU/Licensure, NCEES/NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity | JIT: Licensure Renewal Information This resource reviews the licensure renewal process with step-by-step directions. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources | Canvas: New Rich Content Editor The current "Rich Content Editor" has a new name and is now called the "New Rich Content Editor." Take a few moments to learn more about this enhancement! | Canvas | View |
| Professional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Technology Helps | Canvas: Setting links to Open in a New Window in Canvas Did you know that you can open links in a new window in Canvas? Learn how to set links and linked items to open in a new window in Canvas by watching this video. | Video | View | |
| 2017 | Professional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Digital Tools, Google Tools, Technology Helps | Google: Embedding Images and Video Watch this video to learn how to embed images and videos from Google Drive into your announcements. | Video | View |
| 2017 | Professional | Best Practices, Digital Tools, Google Tools, Technology Helps | Google: Assigning Tasks in Docs Learn how to tag people in Google Docs to assign tasks and keep collaboration on track. | Video | View |
| 2025 | Professional | Best Practices, Digital Tools, Google Tools, Technology Helps | JIT: Google Calendar Appointment Scheduler Learn how to schedule appointment times in your Google Calendar. | Document | View |
| 2020 | Professional | Best Practices, Digital Tools, Technology Helps | Zoom: Best Practices Zoom has become a tool in all of our toolkits that is used daily in many cases. Please take a few moments to review the security best practices to help keep our student and organization as safe as possible. | Canvas | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Best Practices, Digital Tools, Google Tools, Technology Helps | JIT: Google Workspaces Workspaces are another way Google Drive makes it easy to find the content that matters most. The Workspace creates shortcut links to files so that you can conveniently organize them as you wish, while the files themselves remain stored in their original location. This eliminates the need to search your entire Drive for frequently accessed files, thus assisting with time management. Barrier Buster: Student Supports | Document | View |
| August, 2024 | Professional | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Best Practices, Policies & Resources | NCVPS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guidance The NCVPS AI Guidance document provides a comprehensive set of guidelines for ethical AI use in educational settings. It includes messaging templates, AI usage levels, disclosure statements, and communication strategies for teachers addressing suspected AI use in student work. Key sections cover responsible AI use, academic integrity, and the importance of transparency when incorporating AI tools. The document also outlines how to integrate AI ethically within assignments at different levels of use (AI Free, AI Assisted, and AI Enhanced) along with recommended disclosure practices for students. Additionally, it offers communication strategies for teachers to handle suspected AI misuse constructively. Key topics include AI tools, academic honesty, privacy, and proper citation. | Document | View |
| December, 2024 | Professional | Canvas Tools and Resources | JIT: Add Appointment Groups to Your Canvas Calendar Did you know you can create appointment groups in Canvas to schedule dedicated meeting times with students? This feature allows you to set up blocks of time for individual or group appointments, making it easier for students (and observers, if enabled) to schedule time with you directly through their calendars. Barrier Buster: Student Support | Document | View |
| November, 2023 | Professional | Google Tools, Technology Helps | JIT: Send & open confidential emails in Gmail You can send messages and attachments with Gmail's confidential mode to help protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. You can use confidential mode to set an expiration date for messages or revoke access at any time. Recipients of the confidential message will have options to forward, copy, print, and download disabled. | Document | View |
| September, 2024 | Professional | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Dr. Chris Smith: Next-Gen Inclusivity: Leveraging AI and OER in Instructional Design to Support Diverse Learners Dr. Chris Smith presented on how to use AI and OER to meet the needs of diverse learners at the August 9, 2024 "Empowering Educators: Harnessing AI" professional learning. | Video | View |
| September, 2024 | Professional | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Mr. Adam Renfro: The AI Mindshift: Empowering Educators in the Age of Intelligence Video Watch the video to hear from Adam Renfro who presented on the August 9, 2024 Professional Learning Day titled "Empowering Educators: Harnessing AI." You will learn more about how AI can transform how you instruct and communicate with students. | Video | View |
| September, 2024 | Professional | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Mr. Jon Fila: Unprecedented (Again) Video Jon Fila was our guest speaker at the August 9, 2024 Professional Learning Day titled "Empowering Educators: Harnessing AI." You can watch the video to learn about how you might can use AI with your students. | Video | View |
| August, 2024 | Professional | Best Practices, Technology Helps, YuJa | JIT: Best Practice for YouTube Videos YuJa is no longer supporting the importing of YouTube videos onto their server. It is no longer possible to host YouTube videos on YuJa's platform. Instead, only the ability to embed a video is supported. | Document | View |
| August, 2024 | Professional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices, EC/IEP/504 Resources | NCVPS Read-Aloud Text-to-Speech Steps Read-Aloud Support: To continue supporting students who need read-aloud accommodations, we encourage teaching them to utilize the built-in read-aloud features available in their operating systems. The NCVPS Read-Aloud Text-to-Speech Steps document provides guidance on how to utilize the built-in feature in the Apple, Chrome, and Windows operating systems. As you receive requests from students, teachers, schools, etc., please share this information and document it in your responses. This approach not only meets their accommodation needs but also empowers them to become more independent in their learning. Barrier Buster: Accessibility, Accomodations | Document | View |
| Feb. 2024 | Professional | Best Practices, Policies & Resources, Technology Helps | JIT: Creating Your Self-Assessment in Rediker NCVPS Teachers, are you ready to complete your self-assessment? If so, follow the directions provided on this JIT. | Document | View |
| 2022 | Professional | Best Practices, Policies & Resources, Technology Helps | Rediker! How to add evidence to your evaluation. Please use the information in this video by Jeni Day for helps with adding evidences to your Rediker Self-Evaluation. If you have additional questions, please reach out to your Instructional Leader. | Video | View |
| 2024 | Professional | Best Practices, Policies & Resources, Technology Helps | Rediker! How do I use this thing? Please use the information on this slide deck to help you create and share your Rediker Self-Evaluation. If you have additional questions, please reach out to your Instructional Leader. | Google Slides | View |
| June 2019 | Professional | Best Practices, Policies & Resources | NCVPS Social Media Guidelines for Staff and Teachers Social media websites and tools are growing rapidly and NCVPS recognizes the value of using these tools to help students connect and engage in their courses and with their teachers. To support these efforts, this document will describe some NCVPS requirements and best practices. | Document | View |
| January, 2024 | Professional | CEU/Licensure | How to access My Transcript and CEU Certificates in NCEES Need to locate the CEUs you earn with NCVPS and NCEES? Follow the instuctions on how to locate your "My Transcript" and CEU Certificates in NCEES through NCEdCloud. (Home Base, NCEES, NCEdCloud, NC Ed Cloud, RapidIDentity, Rapid Identity, professional learning, CEU) | View | |
| 2023 | Professional | Best Practices, Policies & Resources | NCVPS Student Code of Conduct Have you reviewed the NCVPS Student Code of Conduct? The NCVPS Student Code of Conduct outlines expectations for respectful, safe, and ethical behavior in online courses. It covers communication, academic integrity, participation, and consequences for misconduct, including plagiarism, bullying, and inappropriate language. Students must follow school, state, and federal policies, with disciplinary actions ranging from warnings to withdrawal from courses. | Document | View |
| 2023 | Professional | Best Practices, EC/IEP/504 Resources, Policies & Resources | NCVPS Co-Teaching/Blended Program: Classroom Partner Teacher Resources If you are teaching in the Co-Teaching/Blended Program (including OCS and Intervention) with NCVPS, check out this amazing course which outlines the basics of our program and the detailed day-to-day processes and expectations for the face-to-faced teacher. | Canvas | View |
| 2023 | Professional | Best Practices, Policies & Resources | AI Tools Email to All NCVPS Aug 2023 Please use this email from Brian Stephens and Rachel McBroom to help guide you when evaluating appropriate AI Tools to use in your professional and instructional practices. | Document | View |
| 2023 (May 10) | Professional | Canvas Tools and Resources | JIT: Canvas Quiz Statistics Canvas provides some great statistics for quizzes published in Canvas. You can view quiz statistics for quizzes that have been published and have at least one submission. | Document | View |
| 2023 (May 10) | Professional | EC/IEP/504 Resources, Policies & Resources | JIT: Accessing Accommodations in the Registration System We are excited to debut a new feature in the NCVPS Registration System that allows you to see the IEP accommodations for students enrolled in your sections. To access these accommodations, follow the directions on this linked document. | Document | View |
| 2024 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources | Fixing New Quizzes in Sections This guide helps teachers troubleshoot New Quizzes in Canvas that are missing questions or settings. It explains how to compare a section to the Working Master, add directions and institution item banks, and adjust quiz settings for Standard or Blended/Co-Teaching courses. | Document | View |
| April, 2025 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources, Best Practices | Canvas Resources: Turning Data Into Action Canvas provides several powerful ways for teachers to leverage data to improve instruction and student outcomes. See the resources below to delve deeper into the data resources you have available in Canvas, as well as explore some Canvas tools you can use in response to data. ELCs may also find this document helpful in evaluating data stories. | Canvas | View |
| 12/2022 | Instructional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Copyright, Curriculum, Digital Tools | JIT: Canvas Unicheck Unicheck is a plagiarism checker. It verifies the originality of submitted texts or documents and delivers detailed similarity reports to instructors and students. Access this JIT document to learn how to use Unicheck in your English and History courses. NOTE: Only available in English and History courses. | Document | View |
| 11/2022 | Instructional | Accessibility, Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Curriculum, Digital Tools | JIT: Instructional Video Resources for Teachers Discover videos to share with your students to support instruction. Learn how to use the Plug-In icon in the Rich Text Editor in Canvas to embed and share instructional videos with your students. #CVOD, #Infobase | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Canvas Tools, Best Practices, Grades | JIT: "Message Students Who" Gradebook Feature At NCVPS, feedback is not just an expectation but a key part of how we guide students on their learning journey. Sometimes, feedback marks the end of an assignment, while other times it motivates students to complete missing work or revise assignments with major errors. The Canvas Gradebook has a feature called "Message Students Who" that supports sending students both individualized feedback and feedback to groups of students. This feature is especially effective as a follow-up strategy if students are missing work or need to resubmit their work. | Document | View |
| April, 2025 | Instructional | Best Practices, Accessibility, Technology Helps | JIT: Accessibility: GIFs A GIF - which is short for Graphics Interchange Format - is an image file. GIFs, unlike other image formats, are frequently animated; however, we still want to make sure they are accessible to students. Check out this document for more information on how to make GIFs accessible for all learners. | Document | View |
| April, 2025 | Instructional | Best Practices, Accessibility, Technology Helps | Accessibility Resources for Announcements Explore this comprehensive list of updated resources to ensure your announcements are accessible for all learners. You can also see some accessible and non-accessible announcement examples. | Document | View |
| Instructional | Accessibility Technology Helps Best Practices | Accessibility: Enabling Dark Mode Do you know how to enable dark mode on different devices for the visually impaired for accessibility? Learn how to enable dark mode on different devices for the visually impaired. | Document | View | |
| 2025 | Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | JIT: Accessibility-Creating Accessible Documents: A Checklist It is important that NCVPS websites are accessible, which means that websites, tools, and technologies like GIFs are designed and developed so that students who need accommodations can use them. Here are some simple ways you can make sure your announcements, documents and other shared resources are accessible. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | JIT: Accessibility-Videos/Audio Are your videos and audio files accessible for all students in your course? This resource will support you in creating and moderating captions and transcripts. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | JIT: Accessibility-Tables Are your tables accessible? This JIT explores how to create tables that can present data in a predictable and accessible way for all students. | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | JIT: Accessibility-Creating Accessible Text When creating new resources, please use Accessibility Best Practices to ensure that the resources are accessible to all. This resource has guidelines for text formatting to ensure the content of your documents and slidedecks are accessible. | Document | View |
| Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | Accessibility: Windows Narrator Do you want to learn more about a great accessibility tool? Narrator lets you use your PC without a mouse to complete common tasks if you're blind or have low vision. It reads and interacts with things on the screen, like text and buttons. Use Narrator to read and write email, browse the internet, and work with documents. | Web Link | View | |
| Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | Accessible Online Content Would you like to learn more about creating accessible content? View this presentation to learn about some technology considerations for creating accessible online content. | Document | View | |
| 2025 | Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources | Canvas Accessibility Checker Tool Did you know there is a tool built into Canvas to help you ensure items (i.e., Announcements) in your course are accessible? Learn about how to check accessibility in Canvas by clicking on the link. You will see step-by-step instructions, with images, for using this great feature. | Document | View |
| Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices, Google Tools | Accessibility Using Chromebooks Do you want to learn more about how to make your course more accessible? Learn more about the specific ways that you can install a screen reader or text-to-speech feature using chromebooks. You will learn about read aloud and text-to-speech technology to convert webpage text to audio. | Document | View | |
| Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices | Accessibility Using Apple Devices Do you want to learn more about how to make your course more accessible? Learn more about the specific ways that you can install a screen reader or text-to-speech feature using apple devices. You will learn about read aloud and text-to-speech technology to convert webpage text to audio. | Document | View | |
| 2025 | Instructional | Canvas Tools, Best Practices, Grades | JIT: Canvas Feature: Rubrics Rubrics in Canvas help students understand exactly what is expected on an assignment. They show what strong work looks like before submission and clearly explain how the work will be graded afterward. Encouraging students to view and use rubrics provides transparency, self-monitoring, feedback connection, and equity. | Document | View |
| Instructional | Best Practices, Copyright, Policies & Resources | Copyright Resources Access various copyright resources by clicking on the following link. | Canvas | View | |
| 2020 | Instructional | Curriculum, Policies & Resources | Curriculum FAQ Document Here is a quick way to access some of the questions that are frequently asked to Curriculum. | Document | View |
| Instructional | Best Practices, Technology Helps, YuJa | YuJa: Downloading Captions For step-by-step instructions on downloading captions, check out the detailed guide available at this site. Barrier Buster: Accessibility | Web Link | View | |
| Instructional | Technology Helps. YuJa | YuJa: Sharing Content with Users Outside NCVPS - embed or link in your course. Once you create your video in Yuja, how do you share it with your students? You can add the video to Announcements and as additional resourses by following these simple instructions. Fast forward the linked video to 02:45 for these simple instructions. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategy | Web Link | View | |
| Instructional | Best Practices, Technology Helps, YuJa | YuJa: Editing Captions in the Video Editor Visit this site to learn how to edit captions in Yuja. Barrier Buster: Accessibility | Web Link | View | |
| Instructional | Best Practices, Technology Helps, YuJa | YuJa: Overview of Video Editor Visit the site to learn more about the video editing options in YuJa. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategy | Web Link | View | |
| Instructional | Best Practices, Technology Helps | Canvas Studio: Embed Youtube Videos To enable a distraction-free and uninterrupted learning experience, you can migrate embedded YouTube videos in Canvas into Studio content, regardless of whether they were added through embed code or the YouTube LTI. Once the videos are migrated, they will play without ads, and all overlays such as recommendations, channel information, or the watch later button will be removed. You will also gain access to Studio-only capabilities, including the ability to monitor student viewing behavior across specific video segments. Captions from the original YouTube videos will carry over into Studio, ensuring accessibility remains intact. | Web Link | View | |
| Instructional | Best Practices, Technology Helps, YuJa | YuJa: Manually Uploading Media Content Users can upload files by using Manage Media. Uploaded files may be auto-captioned and accessed in the same way as a file created using the Software Capture application or the Hardware Hub. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategy | Web Link | View | |
| Instructional | Best Practices, Technology Helps, YuJa | YuJa: Uploading an Exported Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation MP4 File to the Video Platform Visit the site to learn how to upload PowerPoint presentation MP4 files to YuJa. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategy | Web Link | View | |
| Instructional | Best Practices, Technology Helps, YuJa | YuJa: Quick Start for Instructors and Content Owners Visit the site to assist with Getting started in creating recordings using YuJa. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategy | Web Link | View | |
| Instructional | Best Practices, Technology Helps, YuJa | YuJa: Auto-Captioning Overview Video Platform Auto-captioning can create an automatically generated word-by-word searchable transcript of your media that can be edited using the Video Editor. While the Video Platform offers excellent quality automated captioning, a variety of external captioning services are also available for increased accuracy. Barrier Buster: Accessibility | Web Link | View | |
| Instructional | Best Practices, Technology Helps, YuJa | YuJa: Captioning Visit the Yuja Help Center for an overview of accessibility including captioning. Barrier Buster: Accessibility | Web Link | View | |
| 2023 | Instructional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Digital Tools, Google Tools, Technology Helps | NCVPS Quick Guide: Selecting and Using Digital Tools This guide supports NCVPS educators in selecting safe, accessible, and instructionally meaningful digital tools. It outlines criteria related to learning purpose, privacy, inclusivity, and student access, and directs teachers to the EdTech Index for evaluating digital tools before classroom use. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategy | Document | View |
| Instructional | CEU/Licensure, NCEES/NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity | NCVPS Professional Development Courses The Professional Learning section of the NCVPS website serves as a convenient, cost-free gateway for North Carolina educators to engage in relevant, high-quality professional development. With self-paced, standards-aligned content, clear support resources, and flexible delivery options, including PLCs and district-facilitated courses, NCVPS helps educators grow at their own pace and in ways that best suit their teaching context. | Web Link | View | |
| 2018 | Instructional | Best Practices, English Language Learners | Scaffolds to Support English Language Learners in Writing and Discussion This Achieve the Core resource, ELL Supports for Writing and Discussion, provides practical tools to help English Language Learners engage in academic writing and conversations. It highlights three key supports: sentence frames, signal words, and word banks that scaffold student participation while building independence with language use. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategy | Document | View |
| 2022 | Instructional | Best Practices, English Language Learners | Strategies for English Language Learners (ELL) This document shares strategies for supporting English Language Learners, focusing on Tier 2 vocabulary, sentence frames, background knowledge, and the use of read-alouds to build language skills. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategy | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | EC/IEP/504 Resources | EC Resource: Students with Specific Learning Disabilities This resource is a quick reminder of the accommodations and modifications you can provide for students with specific learning disabilities in NCVPS courses. Barrier Buster: Accommodation, Instructional Strategy | Document | View |
| Instructional | EC/IEP/504 Resources | EC Resource: Students with Visual Impairments This Smore is a quick reminder of the accommodations and modifications you can provide for students with visual impairments in NCVPS courses. Barrier Buster: Accessibility | Web Link | View | |
| 2025 | Instructional | EC/IEP/504 Resources | EC Resource: NCVPS 504/IEP Accommodations One Stop Doc This resource serves as a comprehensive reference for NCVPS teachers to ensure compliance with legally required IEP and 504 accommodations. It provides step-by-step guidance on how to check student accommodations in the registration system and outlines specific supports organized into four categories: accessibility, assessments, assignments, and student support. Barrier Buster: Accessibility, Accommodation, Student Supports | Document | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | EC/IEP/504 Resources | EC Resource: Students with Disabilities Resource on how to provide modifications and accommodations for students with reading disabilities, IEP, 504. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategy | Document | View |
| 2024 | Instructional | Accessibility, Technology Helps, Best Practices, Digital Tools, Google Tools | JIT: Accessibility: Grackle Grackle Suite is a Chrome browser add-on for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides that analyzes documents in Google Drive to ensure accessibility and compliance with sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). When you launch Grackle as an extension in any Google app, it scans the document to ensure it is accessible to all students and staff. Barrier Buster: Accessibility | Document | View |
| 2024 | Instructional | Best Practices, Curriculum | Pathways Course Overview for Teachers Pathways Course Overview for Teachers outlines and explains the three learning pathways of NCVPS pathway courses. This document also explains when and how to publish learning pathways in traditional courses. Barrier Buster: Student Supports, Accommodation | Document | View |
| Instructional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Technology Helps | Adding Quiz Attempts in Canvas Do you know how to add extra quiz attempts in Canvas to support students with accomodations? Review the link to learn more. Barrier Buster: Student Supports, Accommodation | Web Link | View | |
| 2023 | Instructional | Best Practices, English Language Learners | English Language Learners: NCVPS Virtual Buddy NCVPS PTC no longer provides direct support for ELL students. However, if you have an English Language Learner who would benefit from extra support from a mentor, then the Virtual Buddy (VB) program may be a great fit. Note: The VB program will do their best to pair your student with a buddy who speaks the same language, but this is totally up to who has volunteered for the VB support program at the time. There is no guarantee of a native language speaking VB. Barrier Buster: Student Supports | Canvas | View |
| 2025 | Instructional | Best Pratices | NCVPS JIT: Interactive Pacing Guides Interactive Pacing Guides help teachers and students stay organized, on track, and engaged. These guides support time management, reduce missed assignments, and promote student ownership of learning. They can be individualized to help meet a variety of student needs. | Document | View |
| February, 2024 | Instructional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Grades | JIT: User Reports for NCVPS Teachers This Just-In-Time (JIT) training provides NCVPS teachers with guidance on using Access Reports and Course Activity Reports in Canvas to evaluate student activity. The Access Report offers a quick snapshot of student participation but does not provide a complete or real-time record. The Course Activity Report, available when the New Analytics feature is enabled, provides more detailed and accurate data for a specific time period. This resource explains how to run these reports, their advantages and limitations, and when to request additional data. | Document | View |
| November, 2024 | Instructional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Grades | JIT: SpeedGrader Randomizer for Grading Did you know you can randomize student names in Canvas' SpeedGrader? Canvas added this feature after research highlighted grading disparities tied to alphabetical name order. | Document | View |
| October, 2024 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources | JIT: Lucid Lucidchart allows students to visually collaborate on drawing, revising, and sharing charts and diagrams. Lucidspark is a virtual whiteboard for freeform ideation, group brainstorming, and real-time hybrid collaboration. Use this JIT to explore this Rich Text Editor Canvas tool. | Document | View |
| October, 2024 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources | JIT: Rich Content Editor Updates in Speedgrader Canvas has rolled out two new updates in the SpeedGrader we hope you will find helpful: Rich Content Editor and Equation Editor. | Document | View |
| May 2024 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources, Technology Helps | Combined Master: Guidelines for Publishing/Unpublishing Academic/Honors Course Content If you need assistance with publishing/unpublishing academic and honors content within a combined master course, please refer to Combined Master: Guidelines for Publishing/UnpublishingLinks to an external site. Created by Melane Ramirez. | Google Slides | View |
| Feb. 2024 | Instructional | Curriculum | JIT: Virtual Field Trips Utilize this document to locate virtual field trips to explore with your students! Virtual field trips can be a useful tool to expand the curriculum and to provide virtual real-world experiences for your students. | Document | View |
| January, 2024 | Instructional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Copyright, Curriculum, Digital Tools | JIT: Turnitin for Canvas Turnitin is the plagiarism detection tool used in NCVPS AP, English, Psychology, and Social Studies courses beginning January 2024, replacing Unicheck. It scans student work against published sources, the internet, and a global paper repository while offering new features like synonym swapping detection and clearer similarity reports. Teachers can integrate Turnitin with Canvas to create assignments, view student submissions, and access detailed plagiarism reports. | Document | View |
| September, 2023 | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources, Curriculum, Digital Tools, Technology Helps | GimKit - Joining NCVPS School Group License All NCVPS Teachers and Staff have access to the NCVPS pro license. Please carefully follow the instuctions on this document on how to access the pro version fo the excellent digital tool. Barrier Buster: Instructional Strategy | Document | View |
| October, 2024 | Instructional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources | JIT: Overview of Canvas Sections The Canvas Sections features help make it easier for you to communicate with and differentiate for individual students. Creating sections helps subdivide students within a course, which allows you to differentiate announcements, discussion boards, and assignment due dates for sections within a course. Think about Canvas Sections as enabling more streamlined student administration, which is great for those blended teachers who have district-specific sections or great for traditional teachers who have students who are finishing the course early and need modified due dates/announcements. Barrier Buster: Accommodation, Student Supports, Instructional Strategy | Document | View |
| September, 2023 | Instructional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources | JIT: Fall 2023 New Canvas Features We are excited to share some new Canvas features that will streamline some of the Canvas features you use each day. Learn more about bulk publishing content, accessing additional Speedgrader links, and sorting and filtering the gradebook. | Document | View |
| 2023 | Instructional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, EC/IEP/504 Resources | Canvas: How to print a classic quiz from modules view Do you know how to print a classic quiz from modules view in Canvas? Printing a paper copy allows instructors to create paper copies for students who need offline access or accommodations. Printing ensures flexibility for test administration and backup copies. Barrier Buster: Accommodation, Instructional Strategy | Scribe | View |
| 2023 | Instructional | Best Practices, EC/IEP/504 Resources, Policies & Resources | IEP Accommodations Homebase Need helpful information regarding IEP accommodations for Traditional or Blended/Co-Teaching environments? This document show how to access student accommodation in our registration system. The accommodations you as an NCVPS teacher can provide to help your students be successful in the online environment. | Document | View |
| 2023 | Instructional | Accessibility, Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Curriculum, EC/IEP/504 Resources | Blueprint 101: Understanding Canvas Blueprint for Teachers A Blueprint course is a course that includes all the content that is to be shared with associated courses. Use this guide to understand how NCVPS uses blueprints and how you as a teacher can personalize your course to accommodate your students. In the last section, there is a flow chart titled "fix, inform, or help ticket" that presents "and" "or" scenarios of when to fix, inform the Course Lead, and/or open a ticket. | Document | View |
| 2023 (April 26) | Instructional | Canvas Tools and Resources, NCEES/NCEdCloud/RapidIdentity, Technology Helps | JIT: NCEdCloud IAM Service and Canvas Integration (Single Sign-On) NCDPI and NCVPS are excited to announce a new integration between the NCEdCloud IAM Service and NCVPS Canvas. All secondary students (Grades 6-12) who are enrolled in a public high school can now log in to their NCEdCloud IAM accounts and access NCVPS' Canvas page. | Document | View |
| 2021 | Instructional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Grades | JIT: Checking Accuracy of Grading Periods: Non-EOC Traditional Courses This Just in Time professional development walks you through ensuring your grades and assignments are set up correctly for the final grade report for Non-EOC traditional courses. Please pay careful attention to the details so your grade book will calculate your students' averages correctly. | Document | View |
| 3/24/23 | Instructional | Technology Helps, Canvas Tools and Resources, Grades | JIT: SpeedGrader Tips - Comment Library We all know how to use the Canvas SpeedGrader to evaluate individual student assignments and group assignments quickly, but do you use the comment library, student sorting options, and keyboard shortcuts? This is a great strategy for quickly commenting on zeros, late work, and missing work. | Document | View |
| 3/4/23 | Instructional | Technology Helps, Best Practices, Accessibility | eDynamic: Literacy Support Toolbar Do you teach an eDynamic course? If so, have you checked out the Literacy Support Toolbar? Students can stay immersed in content with point-of-use access to support features that engage, and not detract, from learning regardless of reading level or primary language. The toolbar will help support various IEP and 504 accommodations, as well. | Web Link | View |
| 1/2023 | Instructional | Best Practices, Canvas Tools and Resources, Technology Helps | Canvas: Helpful guidance for teacher-made changes to their course We hope this list of frequently asked questions by NCVPS teachers on how to make changes to their courses will be helpful. This resource is full of "How To" guides to assist you in modifying Modules and Content, Assignments, Classic and New Quizzes, and delivering Accommodations and Modifications. Please reach out if you need assistance with a change that is not addressed on this resource, and we will work on supporting your need. | Google Sheet | View |
| 1/2023 | Instructional | Best Practices, Copyright, Digital Tools, Technology Helps | ChatGPT Information and Resources ChatGPT, launched in late 2022, has quickly become a game-changer in classrooms and beyond. At first, the buzz was all about cheating,could teachers even catch it? Today, the focus is shifting: instead of just trying to block AI, schools are learning how to teach with it. One thing's certain, like every new tool, AI is here to stay, and it's evolving fast. | Document | View |
