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CCCTC Products & Services Definitions

CCCTC Products & Services Definitions

The authoritative source for official names & descriptions of each CCCTC product & service.

 

Introduction

The California Community Colleges Technology Center (CCCTC) provides multiple products and services to assist California’s community colleges by facilitating and coordinating the work of systemwide technology. For consistency and to add clarification to this work, this guide was created to serve as the authoritative source of truth for the official name and description of each CCCTC’s product and service, for internal use only. 

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The CCCTC Products & Services Definitions document is a living document representing the current-state of each product & service developed and delivered by the CCC Technology Center, unless otherwise noted. Required updates will be referred to the document owner for inclusion and approved by the CCCTC Executive Director, Jennifer Coleman.

This document is reviewed before each major product release to ensure it continues to reflect current and accurate information.

Products & Services Definitions

 The table below contains the following product information:

  • Official Product Name

  • Product Owner / Manager

  • Brief Product Description / Overview

  • Basic Prerequisites

  • Responsibilities for Adoption/Implementation

  • Contract Requirements

 

Student Success Suite

The Student Success Suite is a collection of student-facing products developed by the CCC Technology Center, including OpenCCC, CCC MyPath, and CCCApply admission & financial aid applications.

Product Name

Product Owner / Manager

Product Description / Overview

Prerequisites

Adoption & Implementation

Definition of “Live” Status

Contract Requirements

Career Coach

Mike Caruso

  • Provides career assessment

  • Recommends college programs for careers

  • Provides salary and employment data

  1. SSO Proxy 

  2. CCC MyPath

  • Sales Info: Marketing / ES CRM

  • Opportunity: ES CRM

  • Implementation: EMSI via Enabling Services

Considered "Live" once students start accessing the system

N/A (via MyPath)

CCCApply Standard Application

Mike Caruso / Patty Donohue

CCCApply Application for Admission
The online (domestic) application for admission for the California Community Colleges.

  • Complies with state and federal laws & regulations (Ed Code & Title V)

  • Aligns with CCCCO MIS DED, SAAM, BOG annual requirements

  • Calculates CA Residency status (for tuition purposes) upon submission

  • Calculates AB540 eligibility upon submission

  • College configurable terms, majors, supplemental questions, Needs & Interests, and data delivery

  • Integrated with MyPath, OpenCCC, SuperGlue

  1. REQUIRED: Terms & Majors must be configured in the Administrator

  2. At least one Term and one Major must be OPEN in order to submit applications

  3. College / District IDP

  4. SSO Proxy integration (Staff)

  • Adoption: ES CRM

  • Opportunity: ES CRM

  • Implementation: Enabling Services

Considered "Live" once students start accessing the system

Signed IPA Addendum B - Applies to the full CCCApply suite (Note: Each product is adopted separately)

CCCApply Noncredit Application

Mike Caruso / Patty Donohue

A streamline custom workflow of required questions within the Standard admission application designed for users enrolling exclusively in noncredit courses.

  • Appropriate for noncredit / adult ed students

  • Unique URL, custom Majors & Supp Questions

  • Does not include residency questions, logic or status determination

  • Does not include Citizenship & Military questions

  • Integrated with MyPath, OpenCCC, SuperGlue

  1. College must implement the CCCApply Standard Application and configure required settings

  2. Students must use the Noncredit App URL to access

  3. REQUIRED: Terms & Majors must be configured separately in both the Standard application and the Noncredit application;

  4. At least one Term and one Major must be OPEN in order to submit applications

  • Adoption: Marketing / ES CRM

  • Opportunity: ES CRM

  • Implementation: Enabling Services

Considered "Live" once students start accessing the system

Signed IPA Addendum E - Applies to the full Apply suite

CCCApply International Application

Mike Caruso / Patty Donohue

The online application for admission to the California Community Colleges for international (non-domestic) students.

  • Does not include residency questions or logic

  • Customizable terms, majors, and supplemental questions

  1. REQUIRED: Terms & Majors must be configured in the Administrator

  2. At least one Term and one Major must be OPEN in order to submit applications

  3. College/District IDP

  4. SSO Proxy integration

 

  • Adoption: Marketing / ES CRM

  • Opportunity: ES CRM

  • Implementation: Enabling Services

Considered "Live" once students start accessing the system

Signed IPA Addendum E - Applies to the full CCCApply suite (Note: Each product is adopted separately)

California Colleges Promise Grant Application

 

(Formerly known as the Board of Governors (BOG) Fee Waiver Application)

Mike Caruso / Patty Donohue

  • The official electronic version of the California College Promise Grant paper application; updated annually

  • Acceptable uses: CC Promise Grant, CCPG

  • For eligible California residents, permits enrollment fees to be waived; does not provide assistance for the purchase of books or supplies

  • Integrated with OpenCCC, SuperGlue

  1. College/District IDP

  2. SSO Proxy



  • Adoption: Marketing / ES CRM

  • Opportunity: ES CRM

  • Implementation: Enabling Services

Considered "Live" once students start accessing the system

Signed IPA Addendum D - Applies to the full CCCApply suite (Note: Each product is adopted separately)

CCC MyPath

Mike Caruso / Patty Donohue

The Guided Pathways onboarding system for student matriculation

  • Provides dynamic onboarding and guidance experience based on student-provided information

  • Customizable by colleges

  • Includes college-specific and Chancellor’s Office-provided information pages for various student services, such as Financial Aid and Online Orientation

  • Easily request, collect, and retrieve electronic documents from incoming students

  • Integrated with OpenCCC, Career Coach, CCCApply

  1. SSO Proxy 

  • Sign-up: CCCTC Sales Team

  • Opportunity: CCCTC Sales Team

  • Implementation: Enabling Services

Considered "Live" once students start accessing the system

Signed MyPath IPA Addendum F

  • Chief Student Services Officer approval (verbal is OK)

CCCApply Report Center

Mike Caruso / Patty Donohue

The CCCApply Report Center is a branded instance of TIBCO/Jaspersoft business intelligence/reporting software, providing real-time submitted application data - as well as other data sources supporting the Student Success Suite - for colleges & other authorized users of the CCCApply application suite of applications.

  • Secure, real-time data delivery for all submitted CCCApply applications

  • Data partitioned by CCCCO MIS code

  • Authorized college staff & district admin users

  • Daily data updates of “in-progress” applications (CCCApply Standard/Noncredit Only)

  • Includes state & national schools and colleges data

  • Includes CCCApply-XAP applications archive

  • Includes other SSS data sources

  1. College or District IDP (Shibboleth, PortalGuard, or SAML compatible)

  2. SSO proxy integration

  3. Authorized/authenticated user account (configured in CAP)

  • Not adopted separately - staff tool for CCCApply

 



Core Administrator Platform (CAP)

Branded Names: CCC Administrator

  • CCCApply Administrator

  • Canvas Administrator

Mike Caruso / Patty Donohue

The Core Administrator Platform (CAP) provides a centralized System Administrator platform for multiple, integrated CCCTC products and tools.

Facilitates IdP authentication, user account management (roles, permissions) and access to integrated Administrator tools, currently:

  • CCCApply Administrator (Standard/Noncredit, International, CCPG),

  • CCCApply Report Center

  • Canvas Administrator.

The CCC Administrator is the branded name for the shared System Administrator that provides a single-point-of-entry (landing page) to central user management services and access to the integrated CCCApply & Canvas administrator tools.

The CCCApply Administrator is an integrated central admin configuration tool for the CCCApply applications. The Administrator includes a shared College & District Information section (tables) and three separate admin sections, one for each of the CCCApply applications: Standard/Noncredit, International, and Promise Grant.

  • Required (and optional) admin settings are configured separately for each application, including terms, majors/categories, rules, messages, supplemental questions, download resets, and Spam Filter maintenance.

The Canvas Administrator is a [NEED]

  • CAP will be the central launch pad for all of our CCCTC products. The goal is to streamline authentication and user accounts for our CCC end users.

  • Primary Product

  • SSO Proxy 

  • Prereq; Dependent upon primary product need

  • Sign-up: CCCTC Sales Team

  • Opportunity: CCCTC Sales Team

  • Implementation: Enabling Services

Considered "Live" once students start accessing the system

 

FraudGuard (Spam Filter 2026)

Jane Linder

TBD

 

 

 

 

OpenCCC

Mike Caruso / Patty Donohue

  • OpenCCC is the student account system

  • Provides administrative access for OpenCCC student applications 

  • Streamlines the admission application process

  • SSO Proxy (College will need idP, and be integrated with SSO Proxy)

  • Sign-up: N/A (component of CCCApply)

  • Opportunity:  N/A (component of CCCApply)

  • Implementation: Enabling Services (via CCCApply)

Not applicable to colleges

Signed IPA - Included in Joint IPA

Reimagine Apply (2025)

Jane Linder / CCC Chancellor’s Office

An initiative from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office to develop
a new student-centered application process and supporting system architecture for our prospective and returning students to:

  • Improve the user experience

  • Streamline the application
    process

  • Better support equitable access

  • Increase data accuracy

  • Protect against and mitigate
    fraud

TBD

RFP and contract negotiations are underway in August 2025.

 

The new solution will be considered live once Wave 1 colleges adopt the new solution.

CCCApply will continue to be supported until all colleges have been migrated to the new solution.

TBD

 

Infrastructure & Data Suite

The Infrastructure and Data Suite is comprised of products & services that support the the California Community Colleges and the CCC Chancellor's Office. 

Product Name

Product Owner / Manager

Product Description / Overview

Prerequisites

Adoption & Implementation

Definition of “Live” Status

Contract Requirements

CCC Data Lake 

John Sills /
Mark Cohen

A product of the CCC Data platform.
The CCC Data Lake stores data gathered from systemwide resources, including:

  • CCCApply Standard & Noncredit Applications

  • CCCApply International Application

  • CC Promise Grant Online Application

  • Multiple Measures

  • COCI

  • C-ID

  • Canvas

  • CO-MIS

  • Launchboard

  • NOVA

VPN (already in place between CCCCO and CCCTC)

CCC Data Lake is not available to CCC’s.

  • Approved CCCCO staff may be provided access (as approved by VC, DII)

  • Implementation: Intervision manages access

Not applicable to colleges

NA

CCC Data Warehouse

John Sills /
Mark Cohen

A product of the CCC Data platform.

  • Makes select data from the Data Lake available in a structured database, includes:

    • CCCApply Standard & Noncredit Applications

    • CCCApply International Application

    • CC Promise Grant Online Application

    • LGBTQ data

    • Multiple Measures

    • COCI

    • C-ID

    • My Path

    • Canvas (CD2)

N/A

The DW is accessed through either (i) DW Direct Connect or (ii) DW Report Server

Considered "Live" once user accounts are set up and credentials have been communicated to the user

NA

CCC Data Warehouse Direct Connection

John Sills /
Mark Cohen

A product of the CCC Data platform.

  • Provides access to available data sources in the Data Warehouse

  • Direct (ODBC/JDBC) connection enables colleges to connect their preferred BI tool or queries through SQL workbench

  • Custom site-to-site VPN between district and CCCTC

  • Log-in credentials

  • Sign-up (CCC’s): ES

  • Opportunity: ES Team

  • College district staff (as approved by Director of Research), configured by Intervision

  • CCCCO staff (as approved by VC, DII), configured by Intervision

Considered "Live" once VPN has been established and successful connection has been confirmed

Signed IPA

ES authenticates CCC individual access with IR lead

NDA required when a custom VPN installation is to be configured

CCC Data Warehouse Report Server

John Sills /
Mark Cohen

A product of the CCC Data platform.

  • Instance of Jaspersoft connected to the CCC Data Warehouse

  • Provides access to available data sources in the Data Warehouse

  • Authorized IRPE Users are vetted and must be approved by college or district Vice President or other authority

  • User account setup and access requires end-user implementation of compliant authentication software to facilitate multi-factor authentication (MFA) login requirements.

  • Sign-up (CCC’s): ES CRM / IPM

  • Opportunity: ES Team

  • College district staff (as approved by Director of Research), configured by CCCTC Enabling Services, and accessed through IDp

  • CCCCO staff (as approved by VC, DII), configured by CCCTC Enabling Services.

Considered "Live" once user accounts are set up and credentials have been communicated to the user

Signed IPA

ES authenticates CCC individual access with IR lead

CCC SuperGlue 

(Formerly known as Project Glue)



John Sills /
Mark Cohen

  • Provides a secure, robust framework for data exchange between CCCTC products and colleges

  • Software component installed locally behind a college’s firewall to facilitate data exchange between CCCTC projects and college’s Student Information Systems (SIS)

  • Enables disparate SISs to communicate in a standardized way through a cloud service

SSO Proxy supplied CCCID as required by product

  • Sign-up: A prerequisite of a primary product, or may be adopted and  implemented as a preparatory measure.

  • Opportunity: CCCTC Sales Team, CRM’s

  • Add on Feature Sales: Sales/CRM’s/ES

  • Implementation: Enabling Services

Considered "Live" once it has been confirmed that data is flowing  to the staging tables



Signed IPA Addendum C

SuperGlue Fraud Data Reporting & API

John Sills /
Mark Cohen

A SuperGlue-based solution (API) that supports bi-directional communication and sharing of suspected application, enrollment, or financial aid fraud data with the CCCTC for the purpose of sharing the determination of fraud with other system colleges automatically

  • SuperGlue

  • Configuration of SuperGlue Fraud Data API and (optional) Fraud Staging Table

  • Sign-up: CCCTC CRM Team