NCEES End of Year Guidance

End of Year is Wednesday, June 30, 2021. PSUs should plan to be fully complete in the evaluation component of NCEES prior to 6/29/2020.

• The vendor will archive all 2020-21 Plans beginning at 5pm EST on 6/30/2021. Complete and Incomplete plans will be archived. 
  • It is important to have plans completed as NCDPI will pull Summary Evaluation Standard Ratings reports on June 30, 2021 to inform EVAAS.
• All Plans (Evaluations, Professional Development Plans) should be completed prior to June 30, 2021.
  • Once the plans are archived they cannot be updated/worked in.
• PSUs should run all locally required 2020-21 reports prior to 6/30/2021
  • Any reports that will be needed to inform next school year during summer or fall 2021-22 SY.
  • Waiting to run reports for 2020-21 during 2021-22 fiscal year pulls correct standards ratings and correct staff UID number, but will report 2021-22 staff location, plan type, name changes. To report staff location, plan type, staff name as of current school year, run your reports before June 30th.
• As your PSU adds new Staff for 21-22 make sure HR/Payroll sets Active Status to Inactive (NO) for the upload to NCDPI Staff UID (Cedars) until after July 1, 2021. After July 1 payroll can then activate Staff.
• NCEES Professional Development (Course Modules) will be available while the Evaluation component is archiving 20-21 plans and while testing and then targeting the 21-22 plans.
• Date for System to be targeted to new plans & accessible to set staff plan types is tentatively July 9, 2021.

Here are the end of year webinars and presentation slides held this year:

• EOY for Teachers-Support Staff
• Recording
• Presentation
• EOY for Principals
• Recording
• Presentation

And Home Base Meet-ups covered EOY in February and reviewed EOY in April:

• Feb: NCEES HBMU Recording:  https://youtu.be/mid-z1NqgP8
  • NCEES Presentation Slides:  http://bit.ly/HBMUnceesFeb21

NCEES - 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. 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:

• PL recording held 5/10/2021 
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• PL recording held 5/12/2021 
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• Click to view NCEES Premium Library 1-Pager.

Questions? Please contact Cami Narron, cami.narron@dpi.nc.gov.

The Home Base Opt-in Process is Open

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) is pleased to announce that the Home Base Opt-in Tool is now available for PSUs to opt into the  full suite of Home Base for the 2021-2022 school year at an opt-in price of $1/ADM.  Please notify your finance officers and principals/directors. 

Note:  Only finance officers and charter school directors/principals should opt in for the school.

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Moodle Course Issue Reported

Districts are reporting the staff were progressing in Moodle Courses and then around Tuesday, May 11, 2021 some of those activity completions reverted to not complete.

NCDPI is working with vendor PowerSchool to troubleshoot this issue.

Current workaround is for staff to repeat the missing activities in the Moodle course.

If a district has a staff experiencing this issue, please open a ServiceNow ticket and include dates and times of the staff's access and completed activities, when the complete activities reverted to not complete, and any documented screenshots that PS can use to investigate further.

NCDPI Technology Support Center

NCDPI's Technology Support Center continues to meet your support needs for:

• Schoolnet 
• NCEES/Unified Talent
• IAM/SSO (NCEdCloud) 
• Staff & Student UID (eScholar)

Support availability:
Web NEW URL: https://ncgov.servicenowservices.com/sp_dpi  -  24/7

Phone:    919-716-1840, Monday - Friday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. (excluding state holidays)

Technical support for SIS needs is handled directly by PowerSchool support using Chat, Call or opening a Case ticket.