The Design Collaboration and Model Coordination tools in Forma for Construction offer a structured workflow that enables multidisciplinary teams to share design updates, track project changes, and coordinate models in a connected cloud environment. This course guides you through the complete collaboration process, starting from accessing project data and understanding how information is structured, through to managing design packages, reviewing changes over time, and resolving coordination issues across disciplines.
You will learn how to work with design packages, use timelines to track design progression, and bring multiple models together for coordination and clash detection. You will also learn how to manage coordination issues to support clear communication and efficient resolution of design conflicts.
By the end of this course, you will be able to navigate a construction collaboration environment, manage design changes across disciplines, and support effective model coordination workflows that improve project alignment and reduce coordination risk.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
The step-by-step video instruction totals approximately 90 minutes. The course also includes quizzes, practice exercises, and a capstone project that give you opportunities to apply what you've learned. These activities take additional time to complete and are not included in the 90-minute estimate.
To receive a course completion certificate, you’ll need to click through all course content, including the videos, quizzes, exercises, and project. While the hands-on activities are optional for learning, they must be accessed in order to track course progress. You’ll also need to complete the final test with a passing score of 75 percent to earn the certificate.
Note to Educators: Please review the setup instructions in the Getting Started section below before assigning this course to students. See the Teaching Supplements on the left navigation panel for additional resources just for you!
These downloadable resources will be used to complete modules in this course:
Teach this course in the classroom or assign it to students as homework.
It's important that you assign Forma for Construction licenses to your students and then invite them into a project before beginning this course. See the instructions in the Getting Started section.
Below, you'll find a zip file with materials specifically for educators.
Download the provided instructor guide for teaching the course content in the classroom, with learning objectives and estimated times for demonstration and practice.
Additionally, lecture slides, answer keys to the practice exercises, and grading rubrics for the project challenge are provided. Students can either work in teams or solve the challenge on their own.
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