#Transcad data miami manuals#
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Especially software like Citilabs Cube, which has a much more difficult learning curve, would give a much better impression to their new users. Seeing how well the videos were received, I believe that the software houses could invest some time in creating their own video tutorials or giving incentives for users to do so.

#Transcad data miami manuals#

The manuals are too dense and it is good to have a set of videos focusing in a more tangible way the most important points.

The videos allow them to learn and re-visit non-clear points at any time and/or.

People prefer to have a class on the software use instead of learning on their own (and a paid training session is too expensive).

Why do these videos have so many views? I have a few hypotheses: To my surprise I have over 9.000 views considering all videos, which is a lot more than I ever considered possible. In 2012 I created a second batch of videos, and now a third batch will be produced (during the Spring Quarter), so I went back to check how many views I had so far. However, I started getting questions and comments from all over the world (currently I have a Canadian and an Algerian asking questions regularly). I produced about 15 to 20 videos at first, but by the end of the quarter I found out that very few of the students had seen it. Since I already had professional experience with TransCad and already knew pretty well the theory of the 4-step model, I decided that IвЂ™d use some of my time as a TA to develop some material to help the students with TransCad features: A series of videos to help my students with their project and a text tutorial (the subject of a future post when it is more complete). McNally had put together a very detailed step-by-step tutorial for proceeding with the project development, some students had problems вЂњvisualizingвЂќ the instructions. The first time I thought this class was in 2011, and I found that even though Prof.

This discipline on 4-step modeling with a very intense (textbook) project to be done in TransCad, and I am the one teaching the students about the software (currently the 5.0 version, but I hope we will get the 6.0 from Caliper eventually since they have been very kind in giving us the software in the past). Among the many activities I have there, I am the teaching assistant (TA) for CEE123, which is an undergraduate senior class created to teach the 4-step modeling process to senior undergraduate and graduate students. As I already mentioned, IвЂ™m currently pursuing my Ph.D.