Internet access was available for a few select Departments (Administration & Advanced Computer Technology) on the Beloit campus. The connection was on a 512k frame-relay. A few lucky Departments had modem (28.8k) access.
1996
Internet access was brought to the Hays campus Administration building only. The connection was on a 512k frame-relay. The Automotive and Nursing buildings did not have Internet access at that time.
1996 – 1999
Beloit campus was networked with Fiber between buildings
1999
NCKTC Intranet (http://home.ncktc.tec.ks.us) was developed by college’s IT staff. It’s primary purpose was to provide information for the IT staff to quickly access files and IP information to work on computers on the Beloit and Hays campuses.
1999 – 2000
Auto West and the Med Arts buildings were added to the Hays campus. Nursing, Medical Arts, Auto West and Auto East buildings networked with fiber.
2000
The NCKTC Intranet grew into an information provider for all faculty, staff and students. Online computer help requests forms were developed, information about network attached storage at NCKTC, the cafeteria weekly menu and Monday morning memo was also published online.
All college desktop computer homepage’s were set to the NCKTC Intranet.
2024
An affiliation with Fort Hays State University and North West Technical College took place and North Central Technical College became Fort Hays Tech | North Central. Our new intranet will be built with a fresh look and updated verbiage!
Information Technology Milestones at NCKTC/NCK Tech:
1993
The NCKTC IT Department was formally created, part-time teaching in the Advanced Data Processing program and part-time college IT and network support.
1999
Ian Draemel was hired 1/4 time teaching Networking in Advanced Computer Technology program and 3/4 time dedicated to college IT and network support, with travel to the Hays campus once a week on Fridays. There were 6 servers at that time, 5 in Beloit and 1 in Hays. At Beloit; a Linux DNS server, a Linux local area USD email and a college student web server, an internal Linux Firewall server for the Beloit campus, a Windows NT NetBEUI File server, a college Windows NT email and public Internet web server, a Windows NT Intranet web server all over a 512K frame-relay Internet connection. At Hays; a Windows NT Domain Controller server.
1999
The NCKTC IT Department and ACT students expanded the local area network with fiber optics and created a new private IP network on the Hays campus to include the Automotive Mechanics building and the Nursing building. This brought Internet access to the entire Hays campus at that time over a 512K frame-relay Internet connection.
Spring / Summer 2000
The Hays campus was expanded from a building donation by a local business man. The donated building was divided into 2 buildings, the Auto West building and then Residential Electricity building.
2001
The Telecommunications program was started, and a new building was built for the program on the Beloit campus.
Spring 2001
The NCKTC IT Department and ACT students networked the Auto East, Auto West and Residential Electricity buildings in Hays with fiber for Internet and local area network access.
2002 The NCKTC IT Department and ACT students networked the new Telecommunications building in Beloit with fiber for Internet and local area network access. The NCKTC IT Department re-designed the Beloit and Hays campus private IP networks in preparation for our new Cisco Telephone system. 2003 The fiber was cut and had to be repaired at Hays to the Residential Electricity building by contractors trenching in a new cable for Hays Medical. Spring 2003 The NCKTC Telecom program upgraded the telephone system to Cisco IP telephones and servers which further utilized the Beloit campus local area network. The Cisco telephones replaced an aging AT&T Merlin phone system for the Beloit campus. Summer 2004 NCKTC Beloit campus Internet access upgraded to a T-1 connection at 1.54mbps, and Hays campus upgrade to a point to point T-1 connection that came directly to the Beloit campus in preparation for Cisco IP telephones at Hays Summer 2004 The NCKTC Network Hub and Servers were moved from ACT building to Telecommunications Building. Project completed on 7-9-2004.
2004 – 2005 School Year
The NCKTC IT Department will be implementing college wide wireless networking project during the 2004-2005 school year. Project was completed on 9-23-2004. A new public web server (Windows 2003) server was brought online and NCKTC stopped hosting the local area USD email accounts. The Beloit campus dorms were upgraded to wireless Internet. The first LCD monitors were purchased for select areas throughout the college.
Tuesday – August 10, 2004
Windows XP Service Pack 2 was made available for download on the college Intranet.
Wednesday – August 11, 2004
NCKTC switched from McAfee antivirus solution to Symantec Corporate Antivirus Client 9.
Monday – August 30, 2004
Barracuda Email SPAM/Virus Filtering Server brought on-line to provide SPAM and virus protection to the college email clients.
Monday – September 6, 2004
The NCKTC IT Department established a wireless bridge to the Heavy Equipment Operations building 4 miles off-campus. This allowed the HEO to be brought into the college local area network without having to dial into the college over (33.6k) modems. No more modems!
Friday – October 1, 2004
College no longer carries external (local area USD) email and www accounts.
Tuesday – October 5, 2004
ATMail email server was brought online replacing the aging Windows NT college email server with WebMail capabilities.
Winter Break 2004
Cisco IP telephones deployed at the Hays campus. New Student File/Print Server scheduled to be put on-line at Hays.
Fall Semester 2005
The college will be able to provide the latest Windows Operating System and Microsoft Office software to any Faculty and Staff for use on their home computers at no cost. This is part of the Desktop Campus – Work At Home Licensing Program agreement with Microsoft, and will be available to all employees as long as they work at NCKTC. If you are interested in this program, please use the Service Request page on this website. Anyone wishing to upgrade their computer MUST bring it to the college for the upgrade and have read and signed the Release form.
2005
The NCKTC Administration purchased Sungard’s PowerCAMPUS and Great Plains Server for student records and financial accounting. The first touch screen laptops were purchased.
2006
NCKTC made the move from ncktc.tec.ks.us to ncktc.edu. Additionally, Internet access upgraded to 2 T-1 (3.08mbps) lines on the Beloit campus. The GIS program was started with a grant from NCK Regional Planning Commission. Barracuda Webfilter server was introduced to the college for increased protection for its end users. Joined the Beloit High School in obtaining Federal Govt. computers, printers and other networking equipment.
2007
PowerCAMPUS Self-Service was brought online. Cisco network switches were used to replace most of the HP Procurve network switches on the Beloit campus.
2008
TeraStation servers were introduced to NCKTC for backups.
2009
The NCKTC IT Department was expanded, Janet Moeller was hired 1/2 time IT and 1/2 time Online Coordinator. Big Creek facility was obtained from the city of Hays. The NCKTC IT Department and Telecommunications Director networked the newly acquired building.
2010
The NCK Tech IT Department upgraded the Beloit campus Internet access connection to 10mbps fiber. The NCK Tech IT Department upgraded the college wireless from 802.11G to 802.11N with new Cisco 4410N Access Points. Additionally, a public guest (NCK Tech Students) wireless network was also created. The NCK Tech IT Department upgraded many areas throughout the college with Federal Govt. dual screen lcd monitors.
2011
The NCK Tech IT Department purchased laptops for any faculty / staff member wanting to use one.
2012
The NCK Tech IT Department takes over the Dorms Internet from the Telecom Department. The NCK Tech IT Department upgraded the connection to the Internet on the Beloit campus to 100mbps and on the Hays campus to 50mbps.
2013
NCK Tech purchased a new Cisco Telephone and Voicemail server. The NCK Tech IT Department upgraded the college public and dorms wireless network to Ruckus dual band; 802.11N and 802.11A radios and wireless controller for the public Campus and the Dorms wireless network. Hays public Campus wireless network was also upgraded over the summer. In the fall 2013 the college wireless access points were upgraded to Ruckus dual band; 802.11N and 802.11A radios capable of supporting over 100 clients per radio per band.
2014
Moodlerooms and CAMS was purchased. Moodlerooms replaces Angel LMS and CAMS will replace PowerCAMPUS. CAMS projected go-live date – March 2015.
April 8, 2014
After 12 years, support for Windows XP ended April 8, 2014. There will be no more security updates or technical support for the Windows XP operating system or Windows 2003 server.
August 15, 2014
After 20+ years of hosting our own public website on the Beloit campus (www.ncktc.tec.ks.us) and later in 2006 (www.ncktc.edu) the college hired the 502 Media Group to publish and maintain our public website offsite.
March 23, 2015
The college switched over to the CAMS student record system and dropped PowerCAMPUS. CAMS and Great Plains are hosted offsite now.
May 26, 2015
After 20+ years of hosting our own email server on the Beloit campus, the college migrated all of it’s email and our ncktc.edu mx domain to Google. So long to Outlook, hello GMail.
December 16, 2015
The Beloit public campus and Dorms wireless networks were upgraded to their own 100MB fiber connection to the Internet.
December 20, 2015
The Telecommunication Director planned and established an E-Metro link between Cunningham Telephone and Cable and Nex-Tech to the Hays main campus and Big Creek facility allowing us to extend our Cisco IP phones to Big Creek. This upgrade also allowed us to drop our point-to-point T-1 Line from the Beloit to the Hays main campus. All Hays and Big Creek phones now operate over a private VPN.
December 2015
Jill Roberts was hired as the IT assistant at NCK Tech, replacing Janet Moeller who left after 7 years as the IT assistant to return to teaching Computer Apps for NCK Tech.
April, 2016
NCK Tech IT Dept. was again looking for an IT assistant.
September, 2016
Tom Magnett was hired as the IT assistant while retaining his teaching position as Telecommunication and Network Technology Instructor until that position could be filled. Tom helps IT whenever posible, also bringing the Telephones with him to IT.
March 6-9, 2017
The Department of Homeland Security was invited to NCK Tech for a Business and Continuity security audit. We passed with the exception of our computer logon password policy; they recommended that we require more frequently forced computer logon password changes.
Summer/Fall 2017
As a recommended practice from the Homeland security audit, the NCK Tech IT Dept. installed and setup new Domain controllers on both campuses, and has migrated the college computers to those new Domain controllers. Those new Domain controllers password policies now requires our end users (faculty, staff and students) to change their computer logon passwords at least once every semester.
March 1, 2018
Our public website https://www.ncktc.edu was moved to a new hosting company, flywheel.com
June 29, 2018
IT Director/Network Administrator, Ian Draemel retires after nearly 20 years of service to the North Central Kansas Technical College. Farewell!
July 1, 2018
Robert McCreight was hired to try and replace Ian Draemel and Tom Magnett as IT Director and Telecom Manager
