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System Announcements

• Service interruption Thursday April 19th 12:01am-6:00am (Wednesday, April 18, 2012)
  
  Hello everyone,
  
  Blackboard will be running some maintenance on our servers from 12:01am-6:00am.  You may experience connectivity issues during this time, please be aware of this and let your students know as needed.
  
  Cheers,
  -NCVPS tech
  
• AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE PEER TUTORING CENTER: (Tuesday, April 17, 2012)
  
  The NCVPS Peer Tutoring Center is looking for new Peer Tutors! We want you to join our team for the 2012-2013 school year. If you feel rewarded from helping others or need community service hours, then the Peer Tutoring Center is the answer for you!
  
  Here are some things to know: a Peer Tutor must have successfully completed at least one NCVPS course, have a recommendation from an NCVPS teacher or their school eLA, and commit to 5-6 hours per week to working with the Peer Tutoring Center.
  
  If you would like to become a part of the wonderful team of Peer Tutors for the 2012-2013 school year and the years to come, contact your teacher for more information today!
  
  
  
  If you can post a link in the announcement, it would be great to link to this post of our blog:  http://ncvpsptcpromo.blogspot. com/2012/04/let-recruitment- begin.html
• Blackboard 9.1 Internet Browser Compatibility Notice (Friday, August 5, 2011)
  
  Good morning,
       After our Blackboard upgrade, NCVPS has been getting used to the new 9.1 system and have learned of a few incompatibility issues that could and will likely affect student use of our system. These issues are mainly centered around Internet Explorer versions 8 and 9. When using these versions of IE in Blackboard, students will experience issues with content being viewable, participating in assessments, and uploading assignment files into the system. IE 8 can be manipulated to be usable to a degree by using IE 8 in compatibility mode. As of right now, the best suited browser for Blackboard 9.1 has been found to be Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and higher. As always, students and districts need to make sure that their versions of Flash and Java are up to date for these browsers for continued participation in the NCVPS program.
       In addition to using IE 8 or 9 in the course environment some of the issues stated above can be overcome by making sure browser history and internet cache is cleared prior to the login to the Blackboard environment. We thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter and NCVPS will keep you updated with any new developments.