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The 2016-2017 CCCApply Annual Report presents an overview of the year in review, including the roadmap of planned and completed product enhancements and changes to the CCCApply requirements and specifications for all Approved Change Requests and program enhancements that have been approved by the CCCApply Steering Committee throughout the 2016-2017 FY (including the September 2016 Release 5.5, and the 2017 Annual Update Release 6.0). It also details the requests that have been deferred or declined, as well as the specific systems where each change will be implemented. Changes will appear on the Pilot (beta) environment servers between 

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Congratulations!  OpenCCC Wins CENIC Innovation Award

Major kudos are in order! The California Community Colleges Technology Center has been awarded the CENIC 2017 Innovations in Networking Award for Educational Applications, in recognition of its groundbreaking work to develop a system-wide federated identity initiative - OpenCCC - for students across the CCC's 113 colleges. Cheers! to everyone at Unicon who contributed to this effort.


  • Professional Development: 2017 CCCApply & eTranscript California Workshop - 280 attendees across both days.
  • OpenCCCApply Migration to Amazon Web Service Cloud Web-based Infrastructure
  • Addressing abandoned applications through 24hr & 7 day system-generated email reminders
  • Developed an approved paper-based version of the CCCApply Standard Application for colleges.

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News & Events

CENIC Awards OpenCCC with Innovation Award

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Congratulations!  OpenCCC Wins CENIC Innovation Award

Major kudos are in order! The California Community Colleges Technology Center has been awarded the CENIC 2017 Innovations in Networking Award for Educational Applications, in recognition of its groundbreaking work to develop a system-wide federated identity initiative - OpenCCC - for students across the CCC's 113 colleges. Cheers! to everyone at Unicon who contributed to this effort.



New Portal Software Development RFP In-Progress: Development of new version of CCCApply approved via new RFP:  “New Portal Software Development RFP” includes complete re-write of Apply, BOG, International and OpenCCC Account.  High-level Requirements include:

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Annual Update announcement went out on Friday, Feb 3. The “Pre-Release Summary” was posted on the CCC College Support Site (www.ccctechnology.info) and comments are being monitored daily.

Per CCCApply Communication Policy - established between CCCTC and CCCCO in March 2016 - all major or annual releases will be announced 60+ days in advance of release, and colleges will have a 30-Day preview period at least in the PILOT Environment - to add new data fields to download files and incorporate any residency logic changes into workflow processes.
Stay Informed on 2017 Annual Update: To receive weekly updates by email on the 2017 Annual Update, click “Follow” on the Support Site announcement here.

Wanna know what’s being released in March? See the Pre-Release 6.0 Notes Summary - with links to each Change Specification.

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2017-2018 BOG Fee Waiver Application will release on March 31 as part of the Annual Update release. The new BOG will be available for preview and implementation in Pilot Environment beginning March 1, 2017.  See the full 2017-2018 BOG Fee Waiver Change Specification here.
Need help getting to the Pilot Environment?


Conferences & Workshops

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Keynote speaker, Pam Walker, Vice Chancellor of Education Services, CCCCO, kicked off the day's sessions to more than 250 CCC Admissions and Student Services staff over six sessions over three tracks throughout the day-long event: Admissions, Advanced IT, and On the Roadmap.  Click here for schedule and detailsWorkshop Presentations.


CISOA Conference March 25 - 27, 2017

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Significant decrease may be attributed to the new account recovery enhancement, Password Reset by Email Link, developed and released September 30 (Release 5.5).


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Implementation

Adoption Update As of February 6, 2016

Standard Application
The following six colleges are still implementing

Feather River College

Palomar College

Santa Monica College

San Diego City College

San Diego Mesa College

San Diego Miramar College


International Application
The following colleges are currently implementing the CCCApply International Application:

Irvine Valley College

Saddleback College

State Center District (Just started)

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  • Shibboleth Upgrade to v3.1
  • Tomcat 8.x (May 2017)
  • uPortal 5.x (May 2017)

CCCApply Enrollment Stats - 2014-2017

The Enrollment Cycle Stats - data chart and worksheet helps CCCApply identify trends in enrollment activity, and plan dates for the CCCApply Annual Update release.  (March Update aligns to dips in spring enrollment for Fall terms.)

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On April 1, 2016 - right after the 2016 Annual Update (March 31) and the launch of the International Application , our focus and development roadmap for CCCApply shifted from a software development phase to ”Maintenance mode” phase; the long-standing Unicon Apply development team was slashed and developers were reassigned to other high-priority projects, such as Common Assessment, Online Education, and MyPath, which will eventually house all the projects (portlets) in a single sign-on Portal environment.

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