Existing California education code law requires residency determination for every student at the time of admission to a California community college. However, the recently passed Assembly Bill 3101 (AB3101) mandates that students seeking to enroll exclusively in career development, college preparation, and other non-credit courses would be exempt from residency classification requirements.
The passage of AB 3101 gave us the latitude we needed to deliver a modified version of CCCApply for our non-credit student population. Lifting the requirement for uniform residency determination for all students allows us to look at other questions and steps that might be omitted at the time of application. Our goal is to find balance in what is asked of the student that is applying for college while still collecting all of the information required for state and federal reporting purposes.
| The CCC Chancellor’s Office is driving changes to ensure CCCApply supports students through the community college application and enrollment process, and is targeting development and implementation of the redesigned system in fall of 2019. Activities such as reducing the number of questions in CCCApply and creating a simpler application for non-credit students which began last fall 2018 has been bolstered by the passage of Assembly Bill 3101. The Non-Credit Application Workflow path is a project of the CCCApply Redesign Project. |
The CCCApply Non-Credit Application is a streamlined, residency-determination-free version of the Standard Application, with a unique, college MIS-code branded URL intended explicitly for students enrolling exclusively in non-credit courses. More like a "workflow" than a completely separate application, the non-credit application uses the same infrastructure as the Standard Application - but without the residency questions or the residency algorithm. The residency status field will automatically default to "N" and a new "non_credit" flag will default to "True" for all applicants who enter the Standard Application via the new Non-Credit URL.
Read more: Non-Credit App Path Requirements
| See the full set of requirements for the non-credit user interface here: CCCApply Non-Credit Path Change Requirements |
The Non-Credit path WILL NOT include the following pages and questions:
The Non-Credit path WILL include the following pages and questions:
The Non-Credit path is embedded in the Standard Application, which means that much of the admin configuration, implementation, and downloads functionality is already setup in your Standard Application configuration, such as:
Although there are very few differences between these two applications because, for the most part, the Non-Credit application (path) IS THE STANDARD APPLICATION without residency questions and without the residency algorithm running (Submission Calculation Service) to calculate the "preliminary residency determination", there are some differences that should be noted and have been documented in the Standard Application Data Dictionary.
The other differences between the two paths are primarily to help colleges identify and distinguish the Non-Credit path from the Standard Application, such as:
Development and implementation of the Non-Credit Application will roll out in phases. The first phase, development, has already begun and a soft-launch release to the Pilot environment is scheduled for February 19, 2019 as part of the CCCApply 6.4.0 release. Below is a breakdown of the project plan.
Development of the Non-Credit Application path within the Standard Application (MVP requirements) began in September 2018 and the initial version will soft-launch in February 2019.
Development requirements for the minimum viable product for release (MVP) are here.
Beginning with the soft-launch on February 19, a college pilot of six districts* will test the new non-credit application to work out the bugs, identify issues, and ensure all post-submission data and workflow processes are ready for production release. Pilot colleges will be required to participate in extended user acceptance testing and IT staff must support the effort with full implementation and integration with their SIS systems. Bi-weekly feedback meetings will be recorded and shared with colleges.
| For the full Pilot project plan with UAT requirements, please see: Pilot Project Plan: CCCApply Noncredit Application: |
The production release for the Non-Credit Application is tentatively planned for June 15, 2019, which is the production release for the 6.5.0 release.
CCCApply Non-Credit Application Change Request: 2018-24R: Revise CCCApply to Support Non-Credit Students
Non-Credit Application Requirements Review
