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Skills & Ranking the A360/Fusion User

Skills & Ranking the A360/Fusion User

More on Skills & Rankings: If A360 can become a one stop shop for Engineers, Project Managers, Industrial Designers and Controllers then we might take a look at how users can be ranked for their level of expertice.  Again, I go back to the yellow,orange, red, brown, black belt system.   Fusion360 has a number of tools that need ranked.  Lets' break them down into  key areas expertice.

  • Modeling
  • Surfacing/Sculpting
  • Assemblies
  • Drawings
  • CAM
  • Simulations
  • Animations
  • A360

Here us how we might consider ranking a user.

 

Note: A360 and Fusion360 would need to be counting together as these events happen. Learnables would also need some integration.

 

  1. Count the number of hours in each module.  Have a counter for members and managers to see how many hours the user has invested in using each software tool.   Again award the karati belt system.  10 hrs. a yellow 20 hrs. a orange 40 hrs. a red 80 hrs. a brown 100 hrs a black 
  2. Kudo's are counted for each area of expertice.   Again, the the kudo's are included in the community ranking.  Great communicator, good idea of the day, finding bugs, awesome design.  2 Kudo's a yellow belt  -  50 Kudos' a black belt.
  3. Learnables:   The end user could be ranked for watching a learnable on a particular tool.   Maybe take a short test/form to get a ranking at the end of the learnable.
  4. Tutorials_Lessons:   The user follows a tutorial and submits the final design to a pieer review board.  They break it down and validate that the developer completed this lesson.  How long it took them is included?  They can always do it again faster if they get a  bad score.  This might cost the user or their company some money since an expert has to sift thru the design to see what was developed.   You might pay to get this ranking if you are trying to get more black belts than anyone.
  5. Attend a Webinar:   If Autodesk conducted weekly webinars for  each module and the Fusion or A360 user attends, again, the user gets a mark for attending the webinar. 
  6. Kids Kudo's:  Age and experience are coupled together.  The younger you are, means a lot.  We want the young makers of the world learning. As youth start moving thru the leaning process, their rankings go up with Kids Kudos' including.  We make kid hungry to learn.  Might tie this all into Kahn Academy
  7. Samari Kudo's:  If a user completes a review board asking to be elevated to Samari above all the rest of the rankings and the review board sees that the user is an outstanding member of the community in both friendliness, outward social awareness, is a link to building the a360/Fusion community, along with a long list of other requriements, they get more Kudo's

Identify The Champoin:   If everyone on A360 could start seeing these metrics, the super users will rise to the surface.  We could identify when the user was moving, zooming , changing things, a counter keeps track of that varaible and posts it on A360 so everyone can see how much time they have committed to the system, other managers looking into the project can quickly identify the Champoin. 

7 Comments

Mixed feelings on the details but there have been more than a few requests for a sort of marketplace for engineering contractors and something along these lines might fit nicely into that as a sort of résumé. 

anewenergy
Advocate

Maybe it goes into A360 behind the scenes for Teams only.  This might create less pressure on everyone.

daniel_lyall
Mentor

not all that much of a good idea how are you going to add cam support in since most use HSM forum for fusion cam.

 

also if someone does NDA that`s a no go for a start, (can not have any hour counting or any data pull)

 

and who is going to do the pieer review board your idea you have to do it and only one idea would apply to me.

so my rank will go down sinces I only work in a couple of area`s and I wont go through the tutorial again or whatch learnable unless they are best practise. I dont attend webinars thats my sleeptime.

 

so it will be limiting to people who work in a limited field and dont have time to do everything else.

 

the way it is now is fine for in forum 

 

TrippyLighting
Consultant

I agree with Daniel here. My experience over the last 30 years has been that real expertise is very hard to judge and attempting to find an all encompassing metric in the hours someone has worked with a specific tool is rather difficult. There is no easy metric to judge expertise or creativity.

 

There are many other caveats. A good "industrial strength" Subivision Surface modeler that has used for example MoDo for number of years will run circles around a Fusion 360 user assuming both have the same number of hours in F 360.

 

A systems like that also invites all sorts of fraud. As soon as there is paid work and money involved, just as in any other area of life, there will be people that will resort to all sorts of cheating and that can easily corrupt a system and that could anlso very likely be detrimental to an open Forum such as the Fusion 360 forum.

 

I have very mixed feelings about this suggestion.

 

 

 

 

daniel_lyall
Mentor

as the saying goes you can`t do F A to I can see that you can do it.

 

it`s a saying I swear by it up set`s people when you first say it to them but then you explain why and it`s fine proof is in the podding 

keqingsong
Community Manager
Status changed to: オートデスク今後検討

Thanks for the idea Pat. we are working on a plan around this exact topic. Will keep you posted on our progress. Let me know if you'd be interested in doing any kind of usability sessions, we'll be happy to involve you and get your feedback. 

keqingsong
Community Manager
Status changed to: RUG-jp審査通過

Hey Pat, there are some really good ideas here, and as much as we want to implement many of these things, we currently don't have the resources to pull it off. With this said, we are incorporating aspects what you've mentioned (#1, #3, #4) into our onboarding experience. 

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