Academy Class Reviews

This course is not suitable for the beginner. It didn't help our course was cut by 2 hours per day for 4 days, which left 8 hours missing for the training and questions. This then had to be compensated by a breakneck speed of teaching, and for someone who is an absolute beginner left no space for catch-up with the rest of the class, who were all advanced users. As for training materials, I wasn't made aware of any available; saying that, we were promised further help from the trainer with asking questions via email.

The classes were slightly one dimensions- Would have been more beneficial to have a variation in teaching style. or have exercises to complete mixed in with the teaching to help test and display our knowledge. I think knowing the objectives each day and the areas in which we were looking to cover would have been more productive. Seeing the end of a project at the start to know why we were carrying out certain techniques to help combime the teached. I was pretty unimpressed with the teaching style, and overall course content flow.

I thought the course was aimed at independent architects wishing to increase their knowledge and ability of BIM. I was hoping that the course would consider more of the BIM interfaces to different tools post construction.

Did enjoy the course although found difficult, as no experience

1. The classroom was BOILING the whole time. 2. The secondary screen didn't work the first day, and the second day they were giving issues (there are better ways to show what the teacher is doing, like programs that allow the teacher to take control of all the screens for a period of time. 3. The course in my opinion was too expensive for the slow and old equipment and lack of commodities (like A.C). The only good thing was the location, and you can't rely on that every time. 4. The teacher was great and also his attitude. He has a strong accent, but he was making the best to speak slowly.

The booking process wasn't great, due to an error in communications I missed the first day. Being new to Pro CC this created problems in the rest of the week. The course felt very rushed and there wasn't a great amount of time to apply what we learned which would have really helped embed the learning.

Overall my experience was good. I had really nice instructor who knew her stuff. The facilities were nice and I felt comfortable.

My rates are not high because I still do not understand the program. Also I can't rate about training materials because I have not had the chance to look at them. I would have preferred to have training material from the course.

Not a fan of the training approach. I'd prefer to have course notes/slide pack so I could concentrate on the demonstrations and for later review/referral during my day to day work. Layout of the training room made communication with the instructor difficult.

Having used ACAD for some years now, I thought I would be at intermediate level. However, having joined the course it was painfully apparent that there were some basic items of knowledge that I was missing and I would have been better starting again at the bottom. I suggest building some kind of level-assessment tool into the booking software.