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Virtual Reality for Planners 4: Refining the End User Experience

Virtual Reality for Planners 4: Refining the End User Experience

Instructor: Chase Mullen

Creating a VR experience is one thing, but managing its use at public events and integrating it into the urban design workflow is an extra, separate step. This course considers the bigger picture and covers a few ways to fine-tune the user’s experience for maximum success.

74 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Virtual Reality for Planners 3: Working with Unity

Virtual Reality for Planners 3: Working with Unity

Instructor: Chase Mullen

This course provides a high-level overview of the process involved in creating a virtual reality application and teaches viewers how to assemble a virtual reality application from scratch using Unity how to make the process as successful as possible.

64 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Virtual Reality for Planners 2: Modeling in SketchUp

Virtual Reality for Planners 2: Modeling in SketchUp

Instructor: Chase Mullen

This course provides a step-by-step SketchUp tutorial and teaches users how to create content appropriate for a virtual reality environment. Viewers will learn how to optimize the performance of their software and ensure success in the next steps of the process, including final model export to Unity.

72 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Tableau for Planners 3: Dashboards

Tableau for Planners 3: Dashboards

Instructor: Sean Maguire

This course will expand on the Tableau for Planners: Introduction and Worksheets. Students will have prior experience will building basic tables and will start to use Tableau to build multi-worksheet dashboards with interactive controls like filtering. Students will also learn how to make the data used in their visualization accessible to the public. At the end of the course, we will demonstrate how to publish the work to Tableau Public and embed dashboards on websites and in social media.

51 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Tableau for Planners: Introduction

Tableau for Planners: Introduction

Instructor: Sean Maguire

This course will introduce general principles of data visualization and orient the user with the Tableau platform. Learn how to connect to a data set in Microsoft Excel, understand general principles of a relational database, and start building basic worksheets and dashboards.

56 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
MetroQuest Public Involvement Software: In Practice and In Action

MetroQuest Public Involvement Software: In Practice and In Action

Instructor: Dave Biggs

This course provides an introduction to working with MetroQuest, what it helps planners achieve, and some of its most important features and capabilities. The course also presents a series of case studies to demonstrate the results MetroQuest has achieved for a wide range of planning projects.

74 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
Best Practices for Community Engagement

Best Practices for Community Engagement

Instructor: Dave Biggs

This course provides you with solid understanding of the benefits to community engagement, the psychology of public participants, an overview of the tools and tactics to choose from and advice on the creation of a public engagement plan to meet the needs of your projects.

70 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Visual Simulation: Advanced Rendering in SketchUp

Visual Simulation: Advanced Rendering in SketchUp

Instructor: Mike Ernst

In this course, you'll learn to create an advanced rendering of a SketchUp site model, using a free third-party renderer called Kerkythea to design realistic lighting and shading. Then add components to your rendering in Adobe Photoshop.

46 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
SketchUp for Planners - An Introduction

SketchUp for Planners - An Introduction

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Get started using SketchUp, the popular, easy-to-learn 3D digital modeling program. This course provides an introduction to how planners and architects represent three-dimensional objects in two-dimensions, with step-by-step instructions for creating and using simple 3D models.

39 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 3

SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 3

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Combining SketchUp and Adobe Creative Suite, this course demonstrates how to use SketchUp together with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to create illustrative and informative photo simulations, perspective views, sections and site plans.

50 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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