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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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What does this change mean for colleges?

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 will 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.  

Remember, NO changes have been made to the student-facing (Production) CCCApply applications, staff tools, or download servers. 

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 Support site, CCCTechnology.info, and "Follow" the CCCApply System Alerts category for FAQs, or to submit a request for technical support. page for announcements, system alerts, and FAQs. (Also, please see the new Pilot environment Terms of Use.)

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.  

Remember:  NO changes have been made to the student-facing (Production) CCCApply applications, staff tools, or download servers. Please see the new Terms of Use outlining technical support for this new testing environment.
 

CCCApply Applications URLs

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.)  

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How will this affect colleges implementing now?

The CCCApply support team will work with you to ensure the you've updated the QA URLs to the new PILOT URLs immediately to avoid any delay to your in-progress implementation project. artifacts such as your email rule messages, supplemental question XML files, and custom reports will be moved over to the new site for you. Staff and Administrator User accounts will not change and you will be able to log in to the staff tools on the PILOT site with the authenticated SSO credentials.  

Colleges who are in the middle of implementing OpenCCCApply, the BOG Fee Waiver application, or plan to adopt the International application, should contact the CCCApply Implementation team to ensure your transition is smooth.  

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Terms of Use & Support

The OpenCCCApply Pilot environment is meant to be a carbon copy of the production environment to allow colleges to stage changes in their configurations and test implementations prior to a product rollout. While the Pilot environment is a clone of production, it is not actively monitored for errors and issues in the same way that the production environment is. Thus, there is no support team in place to respond to issues. For those colleges currently implementing OpenCCCApply, reporting issues to your project team may not be effective.
 

Contact Us

For questions related to the QA > to PILOT site cutover environment transition, please contact Patty Donohue, Project Manager, pdonohue@ccctechcenter.org.

For 24/7 online documentation and support, visit wwwCCCTechnology.ccctechnology.info >  for CCCApply System Alerts   

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