Campus Participation

OVERVIEW

Website history and system changes:

a. Cerritos College was the first California community college in California to connect to the Internet. The Cerritos.edu domain was activated on October 19, 1989. The first web server went live in late 1990. The College started its website around 1993. The oldest archived record for www.cerritos.edu is November 20, 1996.

b. IT managed and authored the College’s website until January, 1999 when the College’s Web Administrator (Ty Bowman) was hired.

c. Fine Arts and Communication provided the College’s first division design in 1998 and implemented it in 1999. The Web Standards Committee assisted with additional designs.

d. The College officially updated its website in 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2015.

e. Over the last 12 years (2003- 2015), the website was divided into two systems:

  1. Initially, in 1999 web authors used Microsoft FrontPage, which had issues with standards, design, training and usability.
  2. The Web Administrator developed a custom web platform in 2003 to address growing issues with design standards, including web accessibility and usability. The Web Administrator invested in Ephox EditLive WYSIWYG editor ($5,530) in 2006 and Xstandard plugin ($800).
  3. The College also had 3,500 pages in SharePoint, which had the same issues with standards, design, training and usability leftover from FrontPage.

Key Milestones and Meetings

  • May 14, 2014: Web Standards Committee (WSC) discussion about website objectives: engaging multiple audiences and marketing trends
  • September 23, 2014: WSC discussion on new website Content Management System (CMS)
    • What is the purpose/objective of the website?
    • Who is our audience?
    • What are the website design trends?
  • October 30, 2014: WSC presentation/discussion - New Website and CMS
    • What is the purpose/objective of the website?
    • Who is our audience?
    • What are the website design trends?
    • Analysis and Demonstration of CMS Vendor Products
  • December 4, 2014: WSC analysis of CMS vendor products
  • December 18, 2014: WSC analysis of CMS vendor products
  • January 29, 2015 WSC summary of CMS evaluations; CMS demonstrations
  • March 26, 2015: WSC demonstration: Omni Updates
  • April 16, 2015: WSC follow up to OU Campus demo. Review website design options
  • May 14, 2015: WSC CMS procurement process recap
  • June 17, 2015: Board of Trustees approves tentative budget
  • October 15, 2015: WSC update CMS procurement process recap
    • Website design firms (scope of work)
    • Website content par down and review
  • December 3, 2015: WSC web design firm presentation and Evaluation: Zumwinkle
  • December 17, 2015: WSC web design firm presentation and Evaluation: Mackey Creative Lab
  • January 14, 2016: WSC web design firm presentation and evaluation: Kneadle
  • January 21, 2016: WSC discuss and review web design firm presentation Evaluations
    • Zumwinkle
    • Mackey Creative Lab
    • Kneadle
  • March 16, 2016: Board of Trustees approves contracts for OmniUpdate and Zumwinkle.com
  • May 25, 2016: Project kickoff call with OmniUpdate
  • June 13-16, 2016: Website interviews conducted with students and staff
  • June 23, 2016: Website interviews conducted with managers and community
  • June 27, 2016: First phase of OU Campus installation completed by OmniUpdate.
  • July 29, 2016: OU Campus Appliance installed, configured and available to Admin
  • August 1, 2016: Web architecture and design review with Zumwinkle.com
  • August 16, 2016: Web author training and migration from CMS to OUC began
  • September 1, 2016: Group interviews with students and faculty
  • October 4, 2016: Added safety alerts in OU Campus for the home page
  • November 3, 2016: Web Standards Committee reviewed Zumwinkle templates
  • December 7, 2016
    • Encoded emails added to the employees directory
    • Communicated to SharePoint users regarding migration to OU Campus
  • January 5, 2017:
    • Calendar authors recruited for 20 of 27 categories
    • All 13,459 pages migrated from CMS to OU Campus or deleted (100%)
    • Email server permissions configured for contact forms
    • Development servers require PHP/MySQL installed for calendar and LDP Forms and default pages configured to enable aliases
    • 190 of 260 web authors trained (73%)
    • Creation of new webpages from SharePoint is 6 of 76 (6%)
    • New page template created for encoded emails forms
    • New page template created for navigation menus
  • February 10, 2017:
    • OmniUpdate to install Helios calendar (includes PHP/MySQL)
  • February 16 2017:
    • Website review with student leaders
  • March 20, 2017:
    • Defined the scope
      • Academic Calendar (Academic Affairs)
      • Important Dates (Academic Affairs)
      • Work calendar (HR)
      • Governance calendar (Various)
      • Sports (HPEAD, not integrated)
      • Student Activities (ASCC)
      • Campus Events (Various)
      • Daily Falcon (Public Affairs)Public web calendar discussion
  • Defined the hierarchy of the contributors, their permissions and responsibilities
    • Identified and defined the various output formats/designs for the home page, top level pages, landing pages and inside pages
    • Defined a new web template for the Daily Falcon and campus calendar
  • May 11, 2017:
    • Demonstration/discuss the template mockups in the WSC to finalize the visual design
  • July 20, 2017:
    • Discussion web content reduction and revision
  • August 10, 2017:
    • Convert the approved mockups into web-ready templates for hand-off to OmniUpdate
  • November 6, 2017:
    • OmniUpdate begins migration process by staging the content on the development servers with the new templates
    • OU Campus begins theming Daily Falcon and campus calendar
  • November 16, 2017:
    • OmniUpdate completes full migration process with the new templates
    • Web content currently being re-written, organized
  • November 20-27, 2017:
    • Test post-migrated web content into new system (Web Admin)

Meetings and Presentations

Top Webpages

  • July 10, 2017 – Human Resources
  • July 12, 2017 – Career Services and Assessment Center
  • July 13, 2018 – Transfer Center, Counseling and School Relations
  • July 17, 2017 – Admissions and Records
  • January 10, 2018 – School Relations
  • January 23, 2018 – Student Activities (with student input)
  • January 24, 2018 – Human Resources and Counseling
  • January 26, 2018 – Financial Aid
  • January 30, 2018 – Academic Senate
  • February 6, 2018 – Transfer Center
  • February 7, 2018 – Academic Affairs
  • February 15, 2018 – Student Services

Executive Council Meeting

  • November 16, 2016
  • November 29, 2017
  • December 18, 2017
  • January 24, 2018
  • February 14, 2018

Management Meeting (Classified and Academic Managers)

  • February 8, 2016
  • March 7, 2016
  • June 6, 2016
  • February 6, 2017
  • April 3, 2017
  • July 10, 2017
  • December 4, 2017
  • February 5, 2018
  • March 5, 2018

Coordinating Council Meeting

  • October 20, 2014
  • March 23, 2015
  • November 9, 2015
  • February 8, 2016                              
  • September 12, 2016
  • February 6, 2017
  • September 11, 2017
  • February 26, 2018

Academic Senate Meeting

  • September 2, 2014
  • January 26, 2016
  • October 11, 2016
  • January 30, 2018

Associated Students of Cerritos College

  • February 3, 2016
  • February 16, 2017
  • July 20, 2017
  • January 23, 2018 (student leaders)

WSC Meetings Regarding the Website

  • March 2-5, 2015 – Web administration attends OU Campus Conference.
  • August 8, 2016 - Web author training and migration from CMS to OUC began
  • December 7, 2016 - Communicated to SharePoint users regarding migration to OU Campus
  • December 7, 2016 - Began training SharePoint users in OU Campus
  • July 2017 - Public Affairs team met with authors and managers of the top 10 most visited web pages according to Google analytics. The top 10 most visited sites were:
    1. Admissions and Records
    2. Transfer Center
    3. School Relations/Future students
    4. Counseling
    5. Assessment Center
    6. Registered Nursing
    7. HR
    8. Career Services
    9. Financial Aid
    10. Student services

*Additionally, Academic Affairs

Web Standards Committee Meetings:

  • 2014-2015
    • May 20, 2014 - Discussion about website objectives: engaging multiple audiences, marketing trends, etc.
    • September 23, 2014 - Discussion on new website Content Management System (CMS)
    • October 30, 2014 - Presentation/Discussion - New Website & Content Management System (CMS). Analysis and Demonstration of CMS Vendor Products
    • December 4, 2014 - Analysis of CMS Vendor Products
    • December 18, 2014 - Analysis of CMS Vendor Products
    • January 29, 2015 - Summary of CMS Evaluations. CMS Demonstrations.
    • March 26, 2015 - Demonstration: Omni Update Content Management System
    • April 16, 2015 - Follow-up on OU Campus Demo
    • May 14, 2015 - CMS Procurement Process Recap. Website Summer Activities: website content par down.
  •  2015-2016
    • October 15, 2015 - WSC Survey Results (campus). Update CMS Procurement Process Recap.
    • December 03, 2015 - Web Design Firm Presentation/evaluation: Zumwinkle
    • December 17, 2015 - Web Design Firm Presentation/evaluation: Mackey Creative Lab
    • January 14, 2016 - Web Design Firm Presentation & Evaluation: Kneadle.
    • January 21, 2016 - Discuss and Review Web Design Firm Presentation Evaluations.
    • March 24, 2016 - Website timeline
    • May 26, 2016 - Update CMS procurement process recap. Review website interview and focus group questions for website exploration phase.
  •  2016-2017
    • September 1, 2016 - Update on website revisions.
    • November 3, 2016 - Review results from group interviews conducted by Institutional Effectiveness and Research. Presentation of initial website design concepts by Zumwinkle.com.
    • December 1, 2016 - Continued discussion on new website designs
    • January 26, 2017 - Review second round of website design concepts. Discuss Design of Landing Page and Website Development
    • March 23, 2017 - Update on design template and architecture. Academic page design. Discuss web launch timeline.
    • April 27, 2017 - Updates on Design Template and Architecture. Scheduling meetings with departments.
    • May 11, 2017 - Updates on design template and architecture. Scheduling meetings with departments. Discuss web launch timeline. Show and discuss the template mockups in the WSC to finalize the visual design.
    • June 29, 2017 - Updates on Design Template and Architecture. Website timeline and progress.
  • 2017-2018
    • July 27, 2017 - Updates on design template and architecture. Website timeline and progress.
    • August 24, 2017 - Updates on design template and architecture. Website timeline and progress.
    • September 28, 2017 - Updates on design template and architecture. Website timeline and progress.
    • October 26, 2017 - Updates on design template and architecture. Website timeline and progress.
    • November 30, 2017 - Website timeline and progress
    • December 14, 2017 - Website timeline and progress
    • January 25, 2017 - Website updates and next steps
    • February 22, 2018 - Website updates and next steps