A number of universities and other institutions have inquired how they might obtain the UC Ready continuity planning tool.
The UC Ready tool was designed and built by the staff of the University of California. The current version is v3.00. This replaces version 2.01, which was titled Berkeley Continuity Planning Tool.
While UC Ready is the successor to the Berkeley Continuity Planning Tool, it has been redesigned to serve the entire University of California System: 10 campuses, 5 medical centers, a National Laboratory, and the systemwide Office of the President. Along with many other enhancements, the tool is now very customizable so that each UC institution can configure the tool to its own local organization, conditions, and needs.
We are happy to share this planning tool, without charge, with institutions of higher education outside the UC System. UC Ready is a web application that you can install on your own campus's servers and modify to suit. The new customization features should make v3.00 quite a lot easier than previous versions to adapt to your institution. Installation of the tool, and some types of modification, still require a programmer - but many customization options are now available to the (non-technical) functional owner of the application at your campus.
The complete installation package (source code plus site files) for the UC Ready application can be downloaded using the link at the bottom of this screen. A Release Manual is included to assist your programmer. Prior to downloading the package, we recommend that you download the Release Manual only for review by your technical staff. The Release Manual describes the technical requirements for installation.
How to Download the UC Ready Installation Package
The UC Ready files are encrypted then zipped. To obtain them, you will click on the link below, un-zip them, then de-encrypt them. (Honest, it's easy!)
Step 1 — Email Paul Dimond and request a password for de-encryption (dimond [at] berkeley [dot] edu).
Step 2 — Click on the "download" link at bottom of this screen. Save the file named UCReadyv300Package.zip to your own computer.
Step 3 — Using your local copy of the file, double-click the filename and extract the zipped files. The result will be a single file named UCReadyv300.exe.
Step 4 — Double-click the filename UCReadyv300.exe and follow the on-screen instructions to de-encrypt the file. You will need the password obtained in Step 1. (Note - this de-encryption step must be done on a Windows computer).
That's it! You now have the entire collection of site-files, plus the Release Manual, in a folder named UC Ready. Give that folder to your programmer, and ask him/her to read the included Release Manual, which has the detailed instructions for installation.