About the New CCC Administrator
The CCC Administrator is a new central admin service for California Community Colleges faculty and staff - providing SSO-based authentication and user management for all CCC Tech Center and other systemwide administrator tools and 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 one single point of entry - 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. 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.
Getting to the New Administrators
New URL to the CCCApply Administrator Tool: Now that the CCCApply Administrator 2.0 is accessed through the new CCC Administrator system, colleges will be given a new custom URL to replace their current Admin 1.0 link.
Colleges will receive their new URL via email which will be sent to the college Admissions Office and/or IT Department contact on file with the Tech Center for CCCApply. For any instance in which we do not have a contact, or if the contact is no longer at the college or district, we will reach out to the college President or IT Director or Student Services Director until we get a response.
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.
NOTE: Colleges will continue to use their existing URL link to the CCC Report Center until further notice. Your existing user accounts will still authenticate and authorize your access to your college or district reports and data. .
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;
NOTE: All colleges are required to undergo integration with the SSO Proxy in order to access the new CCC Administrator and all integrated admin applications, including the CCCApply Administrator 2.0. To find out if your college has completed this system requirement, please contact CCCTC Support at staffsupportccctc@openccc.zendesk.com
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.
Land & Launch Interface
All integrated admin applications, including the CCCApply Administrator 2.0 application, will launch from the CCC Administrator global landing page.
Applications Menu: In this first release (CAP 1.0), CCCApply and Canvas College Adaptor admin tools are the only tools accessible from the CCC Administrator. As more CCCTC admin applications are developed and integrated with CAP, they will launch from this core system AND leverage the same SSO, authorizations, and System Administrator (to define their own application-specific roles and permissions).
IMPORTANT: The CCC Report Center will not launch from the CCC Administrator in the first release. Until further notice, all colleges and districts will continue to use their existing custom URLs and user accounts to access the CCC Report Center.
New “System Administrator” Module: the System Administrator module is where integrated applications set up systems administration, including user management in the “User Manager” sub-menu, user roles in the “Roles Manager”, and user permissions in the “Access Permissions Manager”.
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 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;
NOTE: Just like in Admin1, all users must have a User account before they can be authenticated into the CCC Administrator. In the first release, all existing Admin1 users will be migrated over to the new system. Their Admin1 roles have been converted to the equivalent role in the new 2.0.