{"id":677,"date":"2018-07-11T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2018-07-11T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T18:44:48","slug":"its-a-new-year-its-a-new-extracurricular-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/its-a-new-year-its-a-new-extracurricular-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a New Year \u2013 It\u2019s a New Extracurricular Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention all middle and high schools. It&#8217;s that time of year again when you need to begin submitting information about your athletic, club, and organization extracurricular activities that will be open to your students in the coming school year. All of last year&#8217;s activities have been removed (so as not to be confusing). Add activities for this school year by completing one instance of the following form for each activity: <a href=\"http:\/\/districtcollaboration.ocps.net\/team\/SettlementAgreement\/SitePages\/Extracurricular%20Activities.aspx\">http:\/\/districtcollaboration.ocps.net\/team\/SettlementAgreement\/SitePages\/Extracurricular%20Activities.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After submissions have been reviewed by the district Athletic Director, they will be marked approved and will begin appearing on your school site&#8217;s Extracurricular Activities page. The form, shown below, is easy to use.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/071118_1354_ItsaNewYear1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just select your school from the dropdown list and proceed to enter information about each of your athletic, club, and organization activities. There is even a brief video on this page that shows how easy this is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uexidRw7I5Y\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/071118_1354_ItsaNewYear2.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember that this is a district requirement for middle and high schools and must include all athletic, club and organization activities. It is perfectly acceptable for you to support additional web pages about any or all of your school&#8217;s activities on your website. However, they must first be listed here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elementary Schools:\u00a0 <\/strong>The extracurricular activities form now supports elementary schools.\u00a0 While elementary schools may not have tryouts for student athletic teams, they may have clubs and even organizations to which students can join.\u00a0 By adding elementary schools to the school dropdown list for this form, we can provide a common place for parents of students of any age to find extracurricular activities that may be of interest to their children.\u00a0 If your school is planning on using this feature, please contact me at: <a href=\"mailto:presence@ocps.net\">presence@ocps.net<\/a> so I can build the necessary page infrastructure for reporting your available activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention all middle and high schools. It&#8217;s that time of year again when you need to begin submitting information about your athletic, club, and organization extracurricular activities that will be open to your students in the coming school year. All of last year&#8217;s activities have been removed (so as not to be confusing). Add activities &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/its-a-new-year-its-a-new-extracurricular-schedule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It\u2019s a New Year \u2013 It\u2019s a New Extracurricular Schedule&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,33,34,31],"tags":[43,44,45,40],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-ready-for-the-new-school-year","category-post-that-explains-how-to-perform-a-specific-activity","category-something-to-think-about-related-to-web-sites","category-news-related-specifically-to-school-sites","tag-athletics","tag-clubs","tag-extracurricular","tag-school-sites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":360,"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/extracurricular-activities-page\/","url_meta":{"origin":677,"position":0},"title":"Extracurricular Activities Page","author":"Carlos Hernandez","date":"December 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Extracurricular Activities pages is another page that is generated from information your school provides to the district about extracurricular activities at your school. Extracurricular activities include athletics, clubs, and organizations. It is a legal requirement that all district schools at the middle and high school level post information about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Governance News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Governance News","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/category\/portal-related-news\/news-related-to-site-governance-at-ocps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1191,"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/extracurricular-activities\/","url_meta":{"origin":677,"position":1},"title":"Extracurricular Activities","author":"Carlos Hernandez","date":"July 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Hello Principals! As was done last year, the extracurricular activities site will be cleared over the summer (today) in order to prepare the site for updates for next year.\u00a0 The site will be available for updates after July 15, 2019.\u00a0\u00a0 Please do not enter any information until then.\u00a0 Any updates\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Getting Ready for the New School Year&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Getting Ready for the New School Year","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/category\/portal-related-news\/news-related-specifically-to-school-sites\/getting-ready-for-the-new-school-year\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":722,"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/elementary-school-clubs\/","url_meta":{"origin":677,"position":2},"title":"Elementary School Clubs","author":"Carlos Hernandez","date":"August 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"As an elementary school, you have options when it comes to posting clubs on your school's web site. Because you do not currently fall under the same legal requirement that middle and high school must follow, I recommend using one of two possible methods of listing your clubs: Use the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Getting Ready for the New School Year&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Getting Ready for the New School Year","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/category\/portal-related-news\/news-related-specifically-to-school-sites\/getting-ready-for-the-new-school-year\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":823,"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/hyperlinks-in-documents\/","url_meta":{"origin":677,"position":3},"title":"Hyperlinks in Documents","author":"Carlos Hernandez","date":"September 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"As with links on a web page, links in a document must have alt-text. 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