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On Wednesday, July 22, 2015, beginning at 9:00 AM PST, the CCC Technology Center will be shutting shut down and retiring retire the OpenCCCApply QA environment and replacing replace it with a new testing environment called PILOT. The new PILOT site will be available to colleges beginning Thursday, July 23 at 9:00 AM PST, Thursday, July 23, 2015.
This change only pertains to the QA testing environment. No changes will be made to the Production environment (including student applications, downloads and staff tools).
The new The PILOT site will launch fully functional and fully loaded, with all of your existing QA test data, artifacts, user accounts, and other QA Administrator settings, in tact.
Exactly like the current QA site, the The new PILOT environment will contain production-level code for the following OpenCCCApply applications:
OpenCCC Student Account System
CCCApply Standard & International Applications
Board of Governor’s (BOG) Fee Waiver Application
CCCApply Administrator
CCC Report Center
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IMPORTANT: On Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 9:00 AM PST, the OpenCCCApply QA environment will be shut down and will no longer be available. |
Colleges LIVE on OpenCCCApply who would like continued access to a beta environment for testing downloads and implementation of additional CCCApply applications (i.e., BOG and International) will need to update their existing QA URL addresses to point to the new PILOT environment beginning Thursday morning. See below for additional information and the new PILOT URLs.
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What does this change mean for colleges?
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Colleges that have already adopted OpenCCCApply will continue to , as well as those who are in-progress, will always have access to a beta environment that mirrors the Production code for testing and implementation.
The CCCApply support team will work with the colleges who are in-progress implementing OpenCCCApply now to ensure they've updated all QA URLs to the new PILOT URLs immediately to avoid delay to their projects. All artifacts, such as email rules, rule messages, supplemental question XML files, will be migrated to the new site for you. Staff and Administrator User accounts will not change and users will be able to log in to the staff tools on the PILOT site with their existing authenticated SSO credentials.
What WILL NOT Change?
The URLs you are currently using to access the QA Administrator and Report Center WILL NOT CHANGE for the new PILOT environment. Your current user accounts will not change and you Staff will continue to Sign In to the Administrator and Report Center with these using their existing QA User account credentials. All of your existing QA Administrator settings and artifacts, as well as any Ad Hoc or custom views and reports you've created in the QA Report Center, will be migrated over to the new PILOT environment for youautomatically. The entire process should be seamless for college users.
NOTE: If you encounter any problems accessing the new PILOT Administrator or Report Center using your existing QA URLs, please visit the new CCCApply College Support site www.ccctechnology.info and navigate to the CCCApply System Alerts category for FAQs, or to submit a request for technical support.
What WILL Change?
On Thursday, July 23 at 9:00 AM PST, colleges will need to update their existing QA URL addresses , all former QA application and download URL addresses will change to the new PILOT applications and downloads URLsURLs, as specified below. In addition, new Terms of Use and Support Level Agreements (SLA) will go into effect for the new OpenCCCApply PILOT environment for all California Community Colleges.
Remember: NO changes have been made to the student-facing (Production) CCCApply applications, staff tools, or download servers.
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Remember to include your college's MIS code to the end of each application URL. (See below for an example of how Butte College will update their QA CCCApply application URL to the new PILOT CCCApply application URL.)
| PILOT Application | NEW PILOT Application URL |
New PILOT CCCApply Application | https://pilot.opencccapply.net/cccapply-welcome?cccMisCode=XXX |
New PILOT BOG Application URL | https://pilot.bog.opencccapply.net/gateway/bog?cccMisCode=XXX |
New PILOT International Application URL | Coming soon |
*Example: Butte College: MIS Code = 111 | https://pilot.opencccapply.net/cccapply-welcome?cccMisCode=111 |
Downloads URL Attributes
Application for Download | NEW PILOT ENVIRONMENT URL |
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| CCCApply Application | https://pilot.admin.openccc.net:8443/ccctransfer |
| BOG Application | https://pilot.admin.openccc.net:8443/ccctransferbog |
| International Application | Coming soon |
How will this affect colleges implementing now?
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Terms of Use
Lou - do we want to take this opportunity to define some Terms for use and support of the new PILOT site? Do we offer support to colleges that have already deployed to OpenCCCApply and no longer implementing (using the PILOT site for setting up and testing)?
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For questions related to the QA > PILOT site cutover transition, please contact Patty Donohue, Project Manager, pdonohue@ccctechcenter.org.
For 24/7 online documentation and support, visit www.ccctechnology.info > CCCApply System Alerts
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PILOT Environment Benefits:
Will match Production after a new Production release
Will be used to demonstrate upcoming release features and functionality prior to a release to Production
Secure, stable environment for testing and onboarding new colleges
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