Current IT Projects
The Department of Justice’s recent ADA ruling gives FSCJ an opportunity to move from reactive fixes to a proactive, sustainable compliance strategy. By establishing a process to update and align digital content and systems with WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards, the College can reduce the risk of noncompliance. More importantly, this work allows FSCJ to build the value of accessibility into current and future processes—enhancing consistency, efficiency, and the overall digital experience for all users.
This project is designed to provide a secure, user-friendly option for the submission of Ombudsman concerns electronically across the institution. By leveraging OnBase to digitize and automate this process, the project will provide a confidential and approachable avenue for addressing concerns while reducing delays and manual burdens on the Ombudsman. Once complete, this solution will be available on our institution’s website for student, faculty, and staff submission of Ombudsman Concern Forms.
This project focuses on streamlining the processing and storage of incoming student transcripts received via the FASTER system—Florida's Automated System for Transferring Educational Records. Currently, transcripts arrive in large batch files containing hundreds or even thousands of individual student records, making manual separation and indexing time-consuming. To address this challenge, this project will implement a solution that will automatically separate large FASTER transcript files into individual student transcripts and route them for review and secure storage using OnBase.
In collaboration with the FSCJ’s IT Department, Academics Departments, and the Registrar’s Office this project focuses on digitizing and automating the Department Course Override Request form and processing using GT eForms and PeopleSoft. Historically, students and staff have relied on physical forms, emails, and tickets to submit and manually process Department Course Override Requests. This project will transform that experience by introducing a fully digital workflow that is accessible directly through MyFSCJ, streamlining the process for both students and staff.
The Orion Data Migration project will focus on moving data still being accessed in Orion (and never converted to PeopleSoft) from Orion legacy and legacy-legacy system to PeopleSoft queries. The project will focus on moving the data as represented in Orion to PS and not converting data. This will allow the sunsetting of the Orion system all together.
Campus Experience will be the new landing page for students entering myFSCJ. This Bolt-On project will exist within FSCJ’s ERP system and will provide a user friendly, secure, and easy way for FSCJ students to navigate PeopleSoft Campus Solutions functionality. Students will be able to easily manage classes, review financial aid status, and receive communications.
The Schedule Builder will provide the student and easy way to build a personal class schedule that fits their needs and availability, all in real-time.
BibliU has been selected as the new course material provider for FSCJ. The integration with BibliU will replace Follett as the official bookstore provider for FSCJ starting Fall 2025. All connections with Follett will sunset at the end of Summer 2025.
This certificate will prepare users to get the most out of Canvas so they can be confident in providing the best online learning experience for students.
IT is working closely with the College’s Security Department to ensure that implementation is within “Best Practice” methods.
Zero Trust Network Access is architecture and sets of technology that enable secure access to internal applications, data, and services for remote and on-premises users. Organizational accounts are identified and authorized to access only the applications, data, and services allowed for their role and function. Non-asset endpoint devices that connect to the college network are also identified and secured while allowing the IT Operations team full visibility and control of what is connected to the college network and information resources.
The Network Operations team is performing passive RF validation surveys to expand WiFi 6 network coverage to areas that do not meet WiFi 6 coverage standards. WiFi 6 adds flexibility, speed, and increased security to the wireless network.
Completed IT Projects
All Income and Employment Verification can be done directly via the Equifax website, both external companies and employees.
To provide our students with the best possible learning environment, IT strives to refresh audio-visual equipment on a 5-year lifecycle. The following rooms have been identified as needing their audio-visual equipment refreshed this year.
The migration of JIRA and Confluence from on-prem to the cloud is being driven by the fact that the vendor that creates these products is ending support on the versions we utilize internally. With that said, migrating to the cloud reduces the management overhead of keeping these applications up to date, and should provide increased reliability for the applications.
Cohesity will provide a state-of-the-art backup and recovery solution with the added benefit of Cloud based immutable backup images and threat monitoring to aid prevention or mitigation of cyber-attacks.
Network segmentation is done by logically and virtually isolating access to data center applications, information, and services. Source, destination, and service protocols are restricted by sets of technology to further secure the data center environment.
Following a thorough evaluation of alternative approaches to FSCJ’s internally developed syllabus tool, the Blue Wave Syllabus Builder, a recommendation was endorsed for adopting “Simple Syllabus “as the College’s supported solution. This project will implement the tool through three concurrent pathways: the Buildout Pathway, the Technical Pathway, and the Training Pathway. Once the implementation phase concludes, the project’s emphasis will pivot towards addressing the requirements of the diverse departments and templates, facilitating training sessions, and transitioning users to the newly adopted tool.
Over the next year, a statistical analysis will be conducted to identify and address any barriers that may impede students, staff, and employees from successfully resetting their passwords.
The Technical Service Desk is excited to announce that a new Help Desk website and ticketing system will be available on March 1. These changes are based on feedback that our current site (help.fscj.edu) has a lot of information and may be confusing to first-time users, especially when trying to decide if they should Submit A Request or Submit A Ticket.
Virtual desktops allow students to access classroom software from anywhere there is an internet connection and from almost any device.
We all know that when myFSCJ is unavailable, you can expect an email from ITInfo@fscj.edu informing you of the issue and another one once the service has been restored.
However, beginning this Fall the IT department will refine our process and provide more consistent messaging when systems experience issues. Additionally, if you suspect a system may be experiencing performance issues, there will be a status page that is updated as an issue arises.
This project will combine the student and staff tenants in Microsoft to provide new possibilities for collaboration between students and faculty across all Microsoft services.
FSCJ will make a complete transition to Canvas beginning in the Fall 2019 term. The last term that courses will be taught in Blackboard will be during the Summer 2019 term, where instructors may choose to teach in either Canvas as an “Early Adopter”, or continue in Blackboard for one final term.