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Centrally Paid InCommon Membership
To facilitate our federated identity initiative to allow single sign-on access to all systemwide technology offerings, CCCCO and the CCC Technology Center have put together an agreement for InCommon Membership for all California Community Colleges to be paid centrally moving forward. Ongoing funding for this effort is a part of the Technology Initiatives for Student Success funded by the legislature.
InCommon, operated by Internet2, provides a trust fabric for higher education, their vendors, and partners to facilitate single sign-on from local campus accounts. InCommon also operates a related assurance program, and offers security certificate and multifactor authentication services.
The addition of CCC's 116 members will boost InCommon to more than 1,000 participants, including 679 higher education institutions, 32 government and non-profit research centers, and 296 corporate sponsored partners. InCommon now serves more than 10 million users.
Immediate Savings for Security Certificates
As InCommon members, colleges may see an immediate savings in using the security certificate program. (Contact Technology Center College Experience Managers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for information about how to receive certificates for your college.)
Single Sign-On for Higher Education Vendors
Microsoft, Blackboard, Canvas, Box, Dropbox, National Student Clearinghouse, rSmart, Parchment and EBSCO are among the many participants in InCommon providing online services to colleges.
Single Sign-On for CCC Systemwide Technology Offerings
Low- or no-cost offerings to the colleges such as the Common Course Management System (Canvas), CCC MyPath, Education Planning, Degree Audit, Retention (Hobsons/Starfish), CCCApply, and all systemwide technology will be available to the colleges via the InCommon Federation when released.
How Do We Sign Up?
For information about how to sign up for InCommon membership, please read Joining InCommon Federation, or contact the Enabling Services College Relationship Managers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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CCC Systemwide Technology Platform
The California Community Colleges Technology Center facilitates a CCC Systemwide Technology Platform standard that allows the system to build new Web 2.0 applications that work together, provide sharable services to the colleges, and can incorporate legacy functionality as we transition to the next generation.
The Systemwide Technology Platform is composed of the following technologies:
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Under this model, siloed applications are deconstructed into their component services and connected via secure Internet communications. This enables these component services to be reused by college or vendor applications and combined into composite applications.
Enterprise Portals: Most of the colleges are moving to some form of portal interface for their students. By providing our systemwide applications as portlets to the colleges, they can be plugged in to provide additional services and functionality for students. In addition, a systemwide portal would tie together our applications with a common front end.
Federated Identity: CSU, UC, and the California Community Colleges (CCC) have Federated Identity initiatives based on the InCommon Federation. Click for information about centrally paid InCommon membership for CCC. InCommon includes over 200 higher education Institutions, government agencies and vendors. The OpenCCC Federated Identity enables a common sign-in for students and staff across systemwide applications and institutions while increasing security and privacy.
Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: The emergence of elastic cloud platforms, where the computing power behind deployed applications is monitored to scale up or down to service demand loads, has made it possible to efficiently handle the annual cyclic student demand on student services applications without having to build a large data center to handle peak loads.
Business Intelligence: To facilitate analysis of student pathways, outcomes, transfer, and institutional performance for continuous improvement, there is a need to bring together various disparate data sourced from the existing applications within our system, and tie them together into usable structures that can be easily researched and presented to end users in a usable format for immediate and future decision making purposes.
Transforming The Platform
With the emergence of services from statewide initiatives such as CCC MyPath, new requirements have surfaced for the Systemwide Technology Platform.
Project Glue/SuperGlue: To not overwhelm college IT departments with connecting many new services to their Student Information Systems, there is a need to have a common connector and local control mechanism so that college IT only have to implement one interface and can control how data flows into and out of their SIS.
Data Lake: All of the new systemwide services are generating actionable data that can improve student outcomes and facilitate institutional improvement. There is a need to save data for long term research opportunities.
In-Memory Computing: Compute-intensive operations such as the recommender engine in the CCC MyPath portal must run in real time at a scale of tens of thousands of simultaneous sessions.
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Services
The following services are available from the California Community Colleges Technology Center. Please follow the links below or use the Services menu above to find out more about:
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Projects
The California Community Colleges Technology Center is composed of many unique projects. Please follow the links below or in the Projects menu above to explore the breadth and depth of initiatives facilitated by the Tech Center:
- CENIC
- CCC Systemwide Technology Platform
- SuperGlue
- CCC Data
- OpenCCC & Systemwide ID
- CCCApply
- CCC MyPath
- Multiple Measures Placement Service
- Information Security Software
- CCC Accessibility Center
- SSO Federation
- Articulation & Transfer
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Partners
The California Community Colleges Technology Center is a partnership between the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and the Butte-Glenn Community College District. The Technology Center's principal directive, sister, and partner organizations include:
California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office
The California Community Colleges (CCC) is the largest higher education system in the nation, comprising 73 districts and 116 colleges with 1.8 million students enrolled per year. Community colleges supply workforce training and basic skills education, prepare students for transfer to four-year institutions, and offer opportunities for personal enrichment and lifelong learning. The Chancellor's Office provides leadership, advocacy, and support under the direction of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.
Chancellor's Office - Digital Innovation and Infrastructure Division
The Digital Innovation and Infrastructure Division plays an instrumental role in manifesting the Chancellor’s Office Vision for Success. The implementation of innovative, robust, and student-centric technologies are distinguishing factors for the recruitment, retention, and academic and career advancement of students attending a California community college.
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC)
California's education and research communities leverage their networking resources under CENIC, in order to obtain cost-effective, high-bandwidth networking to support their missions and answer the needs of their faculty, staff, and students.
Foundation for California Community Colleges
As the official foundation for the CCC Board of Governors and Chancellor's Office, the Foundation develops programs and services that save millions of dollars for colleges and students, promotes excellence in education, and provides valuable learning opportunities for students throughout the state. It also supports the system through special initiatives, statewide awards, and direct donations to the colleges and the Network of California Community College Foundations.
Technology Center Overview
Technology Center Overview
For more than 25 years, the CCC Technology Center has been dedicated to transformative innovation in support of the students and staff of the California Community Colleges in collaboration with the CCC Chancellor’s Office.
Adopt Technology Center Products
Adopt Technology Center Products
Supported by the Chancellor's Office, the Technology Center provides California community colleges with a suite of no-cost software solutions and deployment services geared toward improving student outcomes, increasing college efficiency, and strengthening the CCC as a whole.
Technology Support for CCC Staff & Faculty Carousel
Technology Support for CCC Staff & Faculty
California Community Colleges staff and faculty using systemwide technology applications can find technical support resources and materials through CCCTechnology.info. The site is monitored by Tech Center support technicians and subject matter experts, providing 24/7, on-demand help and self-service support.
Tech Center Highlights
We bring systemwide enabling technologies to our colleges.
Adopt Our Tech
From connectivity to student services and educational technology.
Connecting Colleges
Gigabit fiber optic network for all of our colleges.
Information Security
Logging, monitoring, and no-cost tools to protect students and educators.
Accessibility
Training and resources to make tech accessible to users with disabilities.
Events
Upcoming CCC Technology Center workshops and webinars.
About the Technology Center
The California Community Colleges Technology Center, hosted by Butte College, facilitates and coordinates the work of systemwide technology. Our 25-year history of collaboration with the Chancellor’s Office and community colleges throughout the state has resulted in great strides forward for the system in areas including federated identity, application architecture, networking, and student services.
We operate under the Gartner model of “Run, Grow, Transform” to simplify our portfolio of services and prioritize resources in support of ongoing operations, the next phase of growth, and longer term transformative innovation.
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CCCApply In-Progress Applications Report
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System Use of the CCCID
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Tech Center, SDCCD: CENIC 2024 Innovations in Networking Award
Award recognizes San Diego Community College District's project to move its ERP to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, ensuring a more efficient, scalable, and secure management of resources. The project was supported by the CCC Technology Center and CENIC. Learn more