ctcLink Campus Solutions (CS) Core

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CS Learning Opportunities

PeopleSoft Campus Solutions (CS) pillar is a comprehensive system designed to manage the entire student lifecycle within higher education. It offers integrated tools to streamline processes across admissions, academic management, financial aid, and student records.

The CS pillar includes three separate support areas: CS Core, Financial Aid, and Student Financials. This page focuses on CS Core. For information on Student Financials and Financial Aid, return to the ctcLink Support menu.   

The CS Core pillar area includes Academic Advisement, Campus Community, Campus Self-Service, Recruiting and Admissions, Enrollment, and Student Records. 

Onboarding Training Manuals help new college staff in their training journey through ctcLink (PeopleSoft). Learning a new software system can be challenging, so these documents provide new staff with information to locate, understand, and participate in the various ctcLink training and learning opportunities available.

ctcLink Training Overview

ctcLink Self-Paced Canvas Courses

All Canvas courses are self-paced. Each course includes a description and suggested list of who should enroll. 

Instructor-Led Learning Opportunities & Training

Each ctcLink Pillar team holds topic-specific learning opportunities and work sessions to share important updates and specific content. This is a forum for our ctcLink users to share discoveries, issues, quirks, best practices, questions, business process options and whatever else might come up.

CS Core Trainings

CS Core Trainings, a valuable learning opportunity, are held on the third Wednesday of every month from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. The dates may change, and notifications will be sent in advance. The CS Core training alternates between refreshers and different process approaches.

We highly value your participation and welcome all end-users to attend these training courses. You can find details about upcoming meetings on the SBCTC Calendar, CS Core Weeklyish CORErespondence, and CS Core listserv. Please visit the QRG Campus Solutions Learning Opportunities Recordings for a list of previous recordings. 

CS Core Work Sessions

CS Core Work Sessions, open to ALL end users, are generally held on the first Thursday of each month, from 1 to 3 p.m. Schedule may vary to accommodate holidays or other conflicts.

The CS Functional Support team facilitates, alternating between functional team delivered content and college user delivered content with functional team support. Each meeting includes:

  • Time for colleges to ask questions about other topics or service tickets.
  • Community engagement within each session (rather than having a formal, predetermined college panel).  As possible, anticipated questions are posted ahead of time so attendees can be prepared.
  • Open Q&A during the last half hour (2:30 to 3:00 p.m.)

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ctcLink Customer Support sends updates, outage notices, changes to configuration, training and workshop opportunities, global and cross-pillar communications to colleges.

College subject matter experts (SMEs), PeopleSoft users/stakeholders can use the lists to ask their college peers questions about how they do things in ctcLink, best practices, local training plans, and more.

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ctcLink CONNECT Blog

ctcLink CONNECT, the weekly ctcLink Learning Opportunities & Support Roundup, includes ctcLink learning opportunities, ctcLink support updates, and news for Washington state community and technical college ctcLink users.

The news is sent to more than 40 eLists/listservs each week, but you may also subscribe directly.

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