Applications Track: On the Ground and In the Cloud

OpenCCC & OpenCCCApply, New Systemwide Services for the Colleges

Presenters: Tim Calhoun, Director of the California Community College Technology Center

Description:

OpenCCC is the California Community Colleges federated identity initiative. OpenCCC uses standards‑based, open source specifications to insure privacy and security while allowing access to applications within the California Community College. OpenCCCApply is the new Web 2.0 application to colleges and will be the first system wide web service offered within the OpenCCC Federation.  The goal of OpenCCCApply is to increase service for colleges and students while significantly lowering the cost. Find out how your college can get connected to these new, cost effective services being released in 2012.

NOTE: A scheduling conflict occurred between the 2012 CISOA Conference and the CCCApply Workshop. This session will be focused on the Information Technology audience and attendees will receive the same information being presented at the CCCApply Workshop.

End-To-End Virtualization: Where Are We, What Do We Know, and Where Are We Headed?

Presenters: John Wagstaff, CTO and Director Information Systems, El Camino CCD; Paul Bishop, Vice President, Technology, Santa Barbara CCSD

Description:

It’s been four years since virtualization technology made its appearance at the CISOA Monterey conference.  Since then El Camino CCD, Santa Barbara CCD, College of the Sequoias, have all been working with desktop and server virtualization.  Learn about their experiences along with the latest developments in the end-to-end virtualization stream. 

Mobile Applications: Meeting Students and Staff Where They Are

Presenters:  Robert Hughes, Director, Enterprise Application Systems, Mt. San Antonio College; Brad Rippe, IT Project Leader, North Orange County Community College District

Description:

The North Orange County Community College District has developed mobile applications for all three of the district's institutions. The applications (available for Android, iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry) have been developed and are now in full production. Included in the offering are campus maps, news feeds, grade lookup, student schedule, faculty and staff directory and class schedule. The applications will be demonstrated and the presenters will talk about the development environment, lessons learned, best practices, marketing strategies, future plans and the tools used to make this a collaborative development effort across the District.

Contracting in a Technology World: How to Protect Your District

Presenters:  Lisa R. Allred, Partner, and Lindsay A.Thorson, Senior Associate, Atkinson, Andelson, Loya Ruud & Romo

Description:

This session will review terms and language in hardware, software and cloud contracts that are needed to protect districts and ensure compliance with FERPA, HIPAA, red flag rules, and data security standards.

Integrating Google Apps into an ERP/Portal Environment

Presenters:  Daniel Watkins, Director of Information Technology, Santa Barbara City College and Michael Ghens, Network Specialist/Systems Administrator,  Santa Barbara City College

Description:

This presentation will focus on Santa Barbara City College’s transition from a traditional student e-mail system to Google Apps for Education.  We will discuss the physical implementation and the campus roll-out.

Secure Single Sign On and Attribute sharing with CAS and Shibboleth in Portal/ERP Systems

Presenters:  Michael Ghens, Network Specialist/Systems Administrator,  Santa Barbara City College and Daniel Watkins, Director of Information Technology, Santa Barbara City College

Description: 

Colleges need to be able to offer single sign-on services that include portals, ERP, LMS, financial aid. Santa Barbara City College has implemented shibboleth and CAS (Central Authentication Services) to provide secure authentication and pass attributes to college and non-college owned systems. Discussion will include a review of the authentication design and architecture supporting multiple campus applications (STARS/DARS/Moodle/DreamSpark/Google Apps etc.).