The OpenCCCApply Project

Goals Lower costs and more choice for colleges Better service to colleges & students Easier & faster application to college Common student identity Leverage data to benefit students Painless transition for colleges Foundation for the future of student services technology

CCC Student Technology Student Portal Explore Careers Explore Colleges Apply to College Apply for Financial Aid Order Transcripts Assessment (College ready?) Academic Planning ePortfolio

CCC Systemwide Technology Platform

Federated Identity Single SignOn for Systemwide Apps, the Colleges, & External Services Authenticate – Who are you? Authorize – What are you? Part of the InCommon Federation For Higher Education 280+ Institutions & Vendors UCTrust CSU Connect Microsoft DreamSpark, Apple iTunes

Portal Common gateway to all CCC Systemwide Applications Many colleges have portals or are implementing them Where practical, application interfaces written as pluggable portal element -Portlets - pluggable into college portals

Governance, Operations, & Support CCCApply Steering Committee CCC Technology Center Administration Development Contracted Support 24/7 Hosting Governed Open Source Hosted Application + Reporting Administration Support Open Source Application to College Governed By Steering

What’s in it for us?

Customization & Integration

Spanish built in – Hover Help

Streamlining

More chances to provide SSN

Duplicate Student Accounts Working to eliminate duplication of systemwide accounts… CCCID – ASX2456 passed to the college to help eliminate local duplicates as well.

Community Powered Support

What does this mean for colleges? Choice - colleges may: Choose to keep their existing CCCApply. Xap keeps up to date through the open source project governed by the steering committee. Move to a hosted instance of OpenCCCApply Develop custom OpenCCCApply based applications or have more choices as commercial SIS vendors may make available the OpenCCCApply open source application to their college student web portals.

What does this mean for colleges? A Streamlined Transition - minimize the affect on IT provide the same download file interface to the college's SIS as currently exists. Cost Savings & Better Service– Competing alternatives based on governed open source and a common architecture will drive lower costs and better service. Hosted instance of OpenCCCApply through the CCC Technology Center will lower costs to the colleges. Vendors are welcome to offer the colleges competing offerings based on the governed open source application and common SOA architecture.

What does this mean for colleges? Systemwide Standardization – through the Steering Committee Reliability and Security – Same elastic cloud technology that Google, Amazon, and many high reliability services use. Redundant fail over Encrypted data transmission Encrypted storage Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council Data Standards

What does this mean for students? Federated Identity Creates a common account for CCC Systemwide Services Facilitates streamlined transfer to CSU & UC Offers access to vendor programs (MS DreamSpark) Single Sign-on opportunity for colleges Easier and faster applications to college Web 2.0 Interface In-line error checking Progressive searches etc. Telephone & Community-Based Support

Next Steps

Whats Next We expect to roll out the project summer 2012 Be sure to continue with your Institution Agreement with Xap. Keith Franco will be contacting you to renew for the coming year.

Wrap up Questions?