Projects

This page is updated on a regular basis and lists major ISS projects by status: Current, Future and Past (completed within the current year).

This does not include all projects, nor does it include unplanned outages. For this information, refer to Tech Support.

Colleague/Slate Integration

End date: January 2025
Status: Underway

This initiative aims to select a vendor for professional services to integrate Ellucian Colleague and Technolutions Slate. This will enable the Admissions and Recruiting Department to easily track applications, document submissions, and interact with prospective students. Prospective students will receive an improved and efficient experience while fulfilling the requirements for admission.  

Employee Laptop and Desktop Replacement (FY2025)

End date: August 2025
Status: Equipment Delivered

This initiative aims to help implement an equipment replacement plan for employees' laptop/desktop computers. This will ensure students, faculty, and staff have the equipment needed to achieve their goals. The estimate is to have laptops on a 4 year rotation and desktops on a 5 year rotation.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

End date: TBD
Status: Project charter and requirements in progress, due 1/6/25

This project implements multi-factor authentication (MFA) to help protect systems and applications across campus. MFA uses an additional source of validation before granting access to users. This also enhances Cybersecurity and is one of the most effective ways, for a system, to ensure the person logging in to the account is who they say they are (authentication).

MyMCC Transition (aka WebAdvisor Retirement)

End date: January 2025
Status: Underway

This initiative migrates all functionality from WebAdvisor to MyMCC; and eventually, retires WebAdvisor. This project reviews the current usage, collaborates with stakeholders, and migrates functionality to other services like MyMCC (formerly Colleague Self-Service). Functionality with a clear and simple migration will be transitioned first. Highly customized applications will require significant work and time for migration.

Project Dashboard FY 2026 - FY 2029, TBD.

Colleague/Brightspace Integration

End date: November 2024
Status: Complete

This project performs an integration with Colleague and Brightspace to quickly provision/deprovision classes and accounts in near real time and automatically. Right now, updates are only done twice per business day manually. This has led to severe delays in access and class creation. Additionally, data will be fed back to help receive important data quickly.

Computer Lab Equipment Replacement

End date: August 2024
Status: Complete

This initiative aims to help implement an equipment replacement plan for the computer lab laptop/desktop computers. This will ensure students, faculty, and staff have the equipment needed to achieve their goals. The estimate is to have laptops on a 4 year rotation and desktops on a 5 year rotation.

Document Management Replacement

End date: February 2024
Status: Complete

Document Management Project Charter

This initiative determines a direction for document management including requirements, vendor/product selection, and implementation. A customer steering committee will be formed to develop requirements and select a product. ISS will work through procurement and implementation. This initiative replaces the current implementation of Perceptive ImageNOW.

Email Exchange Upgrade & Migration

End date: January 2024
Status: Complete

This initiative migrates and upgrades faculty and staff email service to the exchange service. This work is necessary to ensure faculty and staff email service is secure with continued vendor support.

Employee Laptop and Desktop Replacement (FY2024)

End date: October 2024
Status: Complete

This initiative aims to help implement an equipment replacement plan for employees' laptop/desktop computers. This will ensure students, faculty, and staff have the equipment needed to achieve their goals. The estimate is to have laptops on a 4 year rotation and desktops on a 5 year rotation.

Migrate Backup Target

End date: November 2024
Status: Complete

This initiative upgrades our backup hardware with newer, faster equipment to replace outdated systems nearing end-of-life. The new backup target extends data protection longevity and significantly improves backup speeds, enabling more frequent backups. This ensures greater data availability, minimizes downtime, and enhances our disaster recovery readiness.

Splunk (Logging & Audit tool) Implementation

End date: May 2024
Status: Complete

This project implements a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool to enable faster response to security and system related events. This tool aggregates (or groups) logging information from multiple systems allowing ISS staff to retrieve, analyze, report on, and correlate event data.

Telephones in Instructional Classrooms

End date: November 2024
Status: Underway

Telephones in Instructional Classrooms Project Charter

This initiative aims to provide two-way communication, with first responders, in instructional spaces (classrooms). Phones will be installed in each classroom, where one does not exist. This will also comply with Texas Law (TEC Texas Education Code 37.108) and McLennan Community College (MCC) Department of Emergency & Risk Management to ensure a notification system is in place, in the event of an emergency.

Last updated: 12/6/2024