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The CCC Administrator is a new central admin service for California Community Colleges faculty and staff - providing shared SSO-based authentication and user management for all CCC Tech Center and other systemwide administrator tools and other systemwide staff applications and services.

What does it do?

The primary purpose services.  This new service is designed to scale as users, products and services are developed and integrated with this central system.

A Single Point of Entry

The primary benefit of the CCC Administrator is to provide a one single point of entry and shared authentication and authorization for all staff and admin tools - thus consolidating user management and authorization for college and district users into one user account with one set of login credentials. In addition to consolidated user management, the CCC Administrator servers a few other functions: - one URL and one central landing page - for all your Tech Center and other systemwide admin configuration tools and services - thus eliminating the need for faculty and staff to manage multiple sites and login credentials for their systemwide administrator applications.

Other Benefits

In addition to consolidating access to multiple admin tools and services in one central location, the CCC Administrator, also known as the “core administrator platform” or CAP, manages user and access management in a single sign-on environment.

Single Sign-On Authentication

• Delivers SSO-based authentication for all CCC college and district staff users across all integrated CCCTC-developed admin applications

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1. Serves as a central global “land and launch” interface for all college faculty and staff users, for all integrated CCCTC admin applications;

2. Accessible via one, single-point-of-entry for all integrated applications, meaning users with authorized access to multiple admin tools will navigate to one central URL (https://{custom-idp}.openccc.edu/administrator) and sign-in using one set of user credentials for all their authorized tools and services;

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Manages all shared “System Administration” services for all integrated applications, including User Management (roles, permissions, user profile accounts);

What are the benefits to having a central Administrator service?

How do the CCCApply Administrator 2.0 and the new CCC Administrator system relate to each other?

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• . Users login to the central administrator once, then navigate to their authorized services in the same session.

User Authorization

• Delivers centralized “System Administration” services, including identity and access management (user authorization, roles, and permissions) in one consolidated user account for all services and resources securely.

Land and Launch Global Interface

• Provides one central landing page for college and district users to launch the applications they are authorized to access, including the new CCCApply Administrator 2.0 system, in a new tab or window depending on your browser and operating system.

Scalable Architecture

• The new architecture design scales as users, applications and services are added to the system

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Getting to the

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Though the majority of the features and functionality in Admin1 were not changed when to the new CCCApply Administrator 2.0, some features were moved to the core administrator platform so that all CCCTC admin applications can leverage those services (i.e., SSO, authentication, users and identity management).  The following functionality moved from Admin1 to the core “CCC Administrator” tool;

Getting There

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New Administrators

• New URL to the CCCApply Administrator Tool:  Now that the CCCApply Administrator 2.0 is integrated within (is launched from) accessed through the new CCC Administrator (CAP) system, colleges will be given a new custom URL that will to replace their current /legacy link (to the Admin1) that will take the user to the CCC Administrator system first.  The CAP system will authenticate the user via SSO and will drop them onto the new CCC Administrator landing page. There is no longer a direct link to the CCCApply Administrator 2.0 tool.  Admin 1.0 link.  

• No Longer a Direct Link to the CCCApply Administrator: There is no longer a direct link to the CCCApply Administrator tool. Colleges will be given a custom URL – based on the college’s URL root domain - for the central CCC Administrator landing page.

• Accessible via one, single-point-of-entry for all integrated applications, meaning users with authorized access to multiple admin tools will navigate to one central URL (https://{custom-idp}.openccc.edu/administrator) and sign-in using one set of user credentials for all their authorized tools and services;

• New Landing Page:  The home page of the CCC Administrator is now the central “landing page” for all users.  From there, users must select the administrator tool they seek to manage via the Applications menu on the CAP homepage.  

• New “Applications” Menu:  To access the CCCApply Administrator 2.0 (or any other integrated administrator tool from the core administrator platform), users must select the “CCCApply Administrator” option from the “Applications menu on the homepage.

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Land & Launch Interface

All integrated admin applications, including the CCCApply Administrator 2.0 application, will launch from the CCC Administrator global landing page.

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MOST college users will not see the System Administrator unless they have a user role that allows them to manage other users (see below).
 

Authorized User Management

User and Access Management has been moved from the CCCApply Administrator 1.0 to the new core admin platform system in order to merge and streamline all the Admin 1.0 user accounts that exist across the three CCCApply Applications and Report Center - into just two accounts per user; one for Pilot and one for the Production environment systems.

• User Accounts:  ALL USER ACCOUNTS are created in the “User Manager” module in the “System Administrator” in the CCC Administrator.  

  • All users must have a user account

  • User accounts specify the applications, roles and permissions, that the user is authorized to across the CCC Administrator.  

  • For CCCApply Administrator, users accounts specify:

    • Applications:  Indicate which CCCApply application(s) the user can access;

    • Role:  Indicates which “role” the user has;

    • Permissions:  Indicates the actions the user is permitted (or authorized) to perform;
      

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However, for the first phase of development and implementation of this central service, all user roles, permissions, and application access authority will be managed by the CCC Tech Center (Support Services and Enabling Services).

• ALL USERS must have a user account setup (new or migrated from Admin 1.0) in order to authenticate into the new CCCApply Administrator 2.0.

• ALL EXISTING USER ACCOUNTS for the Admin 1.0 and the CCC Report Center systems will be migrated over to the new 2.0 system prior to Pilot and Production releases.

• ALL USERS will now have the "Basic User" role and permissions for the initial Pilot launch of the new CCCApply Administrator 2.0. The Basic User role will allow users to login (authentication) to the CCC Administrator tool, and launch and access their authorized applications using single sign on (SSO). 

• College Support Services will schedule one-on-one support sessions (online Zoom sessions) with a designated college or district staff representative during the weeks of July 2 - July 22, 2018.

• All existing college and district user accounts will be validated by an authorized CCCTC College Support Services technician during the Pilot Implementation process. Updates will be made during the support session to ensure only valid users will have accounts moving forward. 

• The purpose of the Pilot Implementation and support session is to ensure that each college completes implementation tasks and user acceptance testing (UAT) to verify each user account is valid prior to production release. To schedule your Pilot Implementation session, please contact CCCTC College Support Services today!