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Colleges should be aware of the following technical changes and potential impacts to one or more CCCApply applications implementations in the Version 6.7.0 release.

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Application Impacted

Impact or Change

Technical Tasks

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CCCApply Standard Application

Area B Residency logic change for California homeless applicants.

Colleges should just be aware that two minor changes were made to the Area B residency logic was revised slightly to ensure homeless that California applicants that who are otherwise California residents will no longer be flaggedhomeless will not be flagged as “possible residents” based on permanent and/or current mailing address alone.

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There is no task required that corresponds to by the college for this change.

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CCCApply Standard Application
Noncredit Application
International Application

Optional internationalization i18n (Spanish Translation) for CCCApply Supplemental Questions.

Colleges that have implemented custom, optional Supplemental Questions should be aware that if they want their questions to appear in Spanish when a user has set their lang setting to Spanish, then they will be responsible for managing the translation of their questions, including translation of the text, and add it to their Supplemental Questions XML file.

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Click here to jump to the implementation tasks.

Optional

CCCApply Standard Application

New Highest Grade Completed question & data field has been added to the HS Transcript Information section on the Education page in the CCCApply Standard App only.

For the CCCApply Download Client: <highest_grade_completed>
For SuperGlue for Apply: <HighestGradeCompleted>

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See Changes to Data Fields for general information.

Colleges using the CCCApply Download Client for data delivery will need to add the new data field to their Standard Application Format Definition XML file and run the Download Client Jar v.6.7.0) if they want to download the new Highest Grade Completed data field.

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Colleges using Glue for CCCApply for data delivery will need to complete the required implementation tasks outlined by the SuperGlue team.

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Click here to jump to the Glue for Apply 6.7.0 implementation tasks.

Optional (Download Client is backwards compatible) - but no data will be delivered until you add the data to your download file.

REQUIRED for Glue for Apply users

CCCApply Standard Application

Deprecated question & data field: The new “Highest Grade Completed” is REPLACING the existing “Completed Eleventh Grade” question and data field: <completed_eleventh_grade>

Colleges using the CCCApply Download Client for data delivery should be aware that the <completed_eleventh_grade> field and question will no longer be downloading data through the Download Client.

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See the Glue for Apply 6.7.0 for implementation tasks.

Optional (Download Client is backwards compatible)

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OpenCCC Account System
Recovery Account
Edit Account

Mobile support for OpenCCC student account system

The user interface in the OpenCCC student account system, including Create Account, Recover Account, and Edit Account pages have been redesigned for mobile devices.

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There is nothing the college needs to do for this change.

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OpenCCC Account
CCCApply Edit Account

New layout and onscreen question text for the Social Security Number Question

The Social Security Number question has been completely redesigned with a new, streamlined layout and improved onscreen question text/language to minimize barriers and ambiguity that might cause confusion to some students, such as non-U.S. resident, ESL/Spanish-speakers, international students.

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There is nothing the college needs to do for this change.
No changes were made to existing SSN data fields relative to data delivery, response options, validity checks, etc. All downloadable fields have not changed. See the changes to how the data fields are repurposed in the new layout in the CCCApply Standard & Noncredit Data Dictionary v.2020.1.

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A change was made to the Area B residency logic in the CCCApply 6.7.0 release to remove an unnecessary barrier for homeless applicants who have indicated that they have no permanent address or mailing address because they are currently homeless, yet in every other way they are California residents for tuition purposes. The fact that they are not providing an address is the reason they are getting flagged. From now on, California homeless applicants will not be flagged in Area B based on their address alone.

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There is no task required required task that the college needs to do that corresponds to with this change.

Legal Support: CCCApply worked with the CCC Chancellor’s Office to explore the best solution to this issue. According to the California Education Code, residency status for tuition purposes cannot be based on address alone. If the

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  • Replace your existing transfer-client.jar (V.X.X.0) with: < PLACE LATEST DLC FILE HERE >

Follow the instructions in the Pilot CCCApply Download Client User Guide.

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  • Replace your existing transfer-client.jar (V.X.X.0) with: < PLACE LATEST DLC FILE HERE >

Follow the instructions in the CCCApply Download Client User Guide.

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