Making Fusion 360 available to my students

[dpmA3HST]

I am a school teacher (UK).  I have recently created an educator's Autodesk account and started using Fusion 360 (which I now feel confident in using).  Unfortunately, I am having difficulty making it available to my students.  I have been able to create student / user accounts, but I cannot give them access to Fusion 360.  I have followed the Autodesk tutorials but when I try to give one of the members / students access to Fusion 360 the window shows '0 available'.  Can someone please tell me how I can enable my students to be able to access Fusion 360?

[dan.banach]

Hi @dpmA3HST 

Can you verify that you assigned Fusion licenses to your students as described on page 7 & 8 in the Fusion 360 Educator Guide?

Thanks,

-Dan

[dpmA3HST]

Hi Dan,

Thank you for your suggestion.  I went back onto the Autodesk site and it appears that I hadn't actually clicked on the 'Activate Class / Fusion 360'.  I then went back into my Autodesk account and, this time, was able to assign Fusion 360 to the small group of users I had set up yesterday.  Unfortunately, it's Saturday now so I won't know for sure if they will be able to access Fusion 360 or not until Monday.  This said, I was at least able to get this done and it's looking hopeful at least.  I will let you know on Monday how I've gotten on.  Many thanks for now.  Dave

[dpmA3HST]

Hi Dan, I made my son, who goes to my school, a user and assigned a 'seat' for Fusion 360 to him.  He was able to create an Autodesk account on his Chromebook, however, when he (I) clicked on 'Get your software', nothing happens, then select 'Download Fusion 360', nothing happens.  I hit the 'try again' a number of times but it hasn't worked.  Do you have any suggestions (as I'm hoping that the students in my school will be able to access the program on their Chromebooks).  Many thanks,  Dave

[dan.banach]

Hi @dpmA3HST 

For Chromebooks, since there is no local drive, after completing your Autodesk education account and acquiring your Fusion Education license (or being assign a license), you can cancel the install like you did.

Ask your son to run the online version of Fusion by going to https://fusion.online.autodesk.com and sign in with his Autodesk Education email and password.

Let me know if this works.

-Dan

[dpmA3HST]

Hi Dan,

It sort of works in that I have gotten into Fusion 360 on the web address you gave me, on his Chromebook.  It asked that he be part of a team (as an administrator I added him to a team I had created for my four sixth formers, doing this form my laptop).  I'm not really sure if this made any difference.  On his Chromebook, it seems to have opened up Fusion 360 and I have gone to one window after another that gives general information about teams and sharing / collaborating / inviting others to join the team etc.  I even created a file but it asks me to upload data!   When I'd really like to see is an actual Fusion 360 design file open so he / I can start simply using the program.  Am I ever going to get this far??  This has taken all of last week and all of my weekend.  I'm getting pretty frustrated with it all to be honest.   My other worry now is this: however are a lot of young students going to manage to do this?  It all seems unnecessarily complicated and convoluted to me. Please help. 

Dave

[dan.banach]

Hi @dpmA3HST 

Glad you're making progress. Here are two links that go through the steps for setting up Fusion as an individual and as an educator.

1. Educator’s guide to onboarding and offboarding students
2. Fusion 360 single user install process and browser access

When you log into Fusion on the Chromebook, you can create a Team / Hub by 

1. Show Fusion's Data Panel.
2. Click on the Fusion Team Switcher - drop down arrow.
3. Click on "Create or join a team"

If you're not prompted to create a Fusion Team, do the following.

1. Navigate to login.autodesk360.com.
2. Sign in.
3. You should be prompted create a team hub.
4. Close and restart Fusion.

Can you explain what you're doing to create a new file and then prompted to upload the file? Can you add a screen capture of what you're seeing on the Chromebook as this is not the expected behavior. 

For future posts, you can post questions on the Fusion 360 Educators forum that we created for Educators.

On this forum there is a pinned post that will help you getting started with Fusion: Resources to Help You Teach Fusion 360. Under this post there is a link to Online / Browser access to Fusion 360 FAQ

Hope this data help.

-Dan

[dpmA3HST]

Hi Dan,

It has worked but the whole process is, in my opinion anyway, overly complicated and time consuming (both for students / users and teachers / admins).  I was able to create two accounts for my sixth formers.  To be honest though, I have been looking at OnShape, which is easy enough to use and the students create their own accounts in about 90 seconds.  I won't give up on Fusion 360 as I like using it, however, I will probably go down the route of having my sixth formers make their own individual accounts, using the pro-forma letter that I found on the Autodesk site.  Many thanks again for all of your time and technical support.  Dave