topic Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge in Modeling

ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Akos Pfemeter — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:59:08 GMT

Dear Archi-Talkers,

Have you ever been in a situation where you were questioned about your level of skill using ArchiCAD, and you have only your own words to rate your abilities? With Graphisoft's recently launched on-line testing resource, now you can measure your ArchiCAD knowledge against an authorized global standard. Please click on the below URL for details of our User Certification Program...

http://www.graphisoft.com/community/certification/

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:47:05 GMT

Looks like I need to study. By the way the challange does not work on Mac. You can only answer one question and are timed out each time. Safari and Mac Explorer. Had to work on our PC.

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

TomWaltz — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:02:18 GMT

Works fine on Firefox for Mac.

I'm guessing a low score is good?

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:12:48 GMT

I know I'm no expert, but that was a shocker. I actually did better the first time, but thought I could improve......nah, wrong. Some of the questions were a bit hard to understand (more "nots" than a boy scouts jamboree). Oh well, back to the drawing board.... Please, if I offer advice within this forum, just ignore me.

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Barry Kelly — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:29:01 GMT

Akos wrote:
Dear Archi-Talkers,

Have you ever been in a situation where you were questioned about your level of skill using ArchiCAD, and you have only your own words to rate your abilities? With Graphisoft's recently launched on-line testing resource, now you can measure your ArchiCAD knowledge against an authorized global standard. Please click on the below URL for details of our User Certification Program...

http://www.graphisoft.com/community/certification/

I would love to try it but can't get past the first question.
Hit NEXT and it completes the survey with a result of 0%.
I'm sure I know a bit more than that

Using Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6.0

Barry.

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:52:40 GMT

Barry wrote:

I would love to try it but can't get past the first question.
Hit NEXT and it completes the survey with a result of 0%.
I'm sure I know a bit more than that

Using Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6.0

Barry.

Funny, that's what was happening to me with Mac and Safari. Couldn't get it to work until I switched to Windows XP. By the way it works now on my Powerbook, and safari.

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Rob — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 03:17:30 GMT

I would love to try it but can't get past the first question.
Hit NEXT and it completes the survey with a result of 0%.

Yep, I've got the very same problem on Win2000 and IE...

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Aussie John — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 03:24:18 GMT

I got through the survey (on a mac) and posted 2%. something a bit odd going on.

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

__archiben — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 03:50:09 GMT

i think that before this was announced the competency of the test itself should have been considered. not only is the test designed more to trick you rather than test your competency but:

- there are several errors (DWG/DWF mix ups for example)

- there are pictures missing(?) when it asks "what results from the following settings . . ." (nothing to 'follow'!)

- i was asked the same question three times in one test (although i got it wrong the first two times because initially it resembled a question in my first test and then i thought it couldn't be so stupid as to repeat questions )

- i was timed out several times even though i'd answered questions and clicked 'next'

- lots of browser hangs. i needed to keep clicking stop, reload and repost data to get it to continue.

- the method by which the score is worked out needs some considerable improvement, i scored 2% the first go (safari) and 0% the second (firefox). and although i don't claim to be an archiGenius i know that i did better than that.

i certainly wouldn't judge anybody's archiCompetence on a test that doesn't get above 2% itself.

~/archiben

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Akos Pfemeter — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 05:30:42 GMT

Naturally high score is good...
It seem so that there is some technical problem on which we are now working. I will post a notice when the bug is fixed and the results so far are displayed correctly. Sorry for the initial glitch and thanks for your patience...

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

__archiben — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:52:15 GMT

Akos wrote:
I will post a notice when the bug is fixed and the results so far are displayed correctly.

need any beta testers? i know someone who's done that kind of thing before . . .

~/archiben

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Petros Ioannou — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:10:21 GMT

Dear Akos,

who are the "authorized ArchiCAD examiners" as described in GS page?
How does someone get this type of accreditation?

Petros

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Ben Odonnell — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:50:55 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
Akos wrote:
I will post a notice when the bug is fixed and the results so far are displayed correctly.
need any beta testers? i know someone who's done that kind of thing before . . .

~/archiben

You trying to get a head start for ten?

Cheers.
Ben

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Akos Pfemeter — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:48:43 GMT

Dear Archi-Talkers,

The problem with the scores was caused by a database error. The error is fixed now but unfortunately we were unable to restore the correct values of the results so far, so we removed the incorrect scores from the 'Results' page.

Sorry for the inconveniences and thanks for your patience...

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Akos Pfemeter — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:55:43 GMT

Authorized ArchiCAD Examiners can be Graphisoft's distributors or 3rd parties nominated by distributors. We will start this kind of service initially in the US and the UK...

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Steve Jepson — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:27:10 GMT

I liked the test. I thought it was very good. It worked for me. Many questions seemed trivial, but I suppose they are exaclty the kind of obscure little tidbits an "expert" just happens to remember. Some of the questions were about things you do all of the time by reflex but you may not recall the exact buttons you push to do it.
I thought it was very useful in pointing out some of my weak spots.
It would have helped a little to have ArchiCAD open for some quick checks. I got a 60%

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:57:13 GMT

As soon as I answer the first question (XP Pro SP2 / IE), the test ends, asking to publish the results or not.

I'm guessing that the test uses cookies or something that my security settings are restricting, but I'm not getting any cookie or other warnings and am reluctant to change my security settings in IE...?

Karl

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Akos Pfemeter — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 08:40:41 GMT

Karl,
you are most probably right and this problem is related to Cookie handling settings. Please enable all cookies for www.graphisoft.com...

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:29:27 GMT

Karl wrote:
As soon as I answer the first question (XP Pro SP2 / IE), the test ends, asking to publish the results or not.

I'm guessing that the test uses cookies or something that my security settings are restricting, but I'm not getting any cookie or other warnings and am reluctant to change my security settings in IE...?

Karl

I was having the same problem. It would work on my powerbook, but not on the office machine. I deleted cookies from graphisoft, being careful to not remove the ones from architalk. This fixed the problem.

Re: ArchiCAD Competency Challenge

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:14:54 GMT

Is there any chance, that there will be the challenge in other languages (my wish: german)? I was starting trying the test, but with all this "not" and the other names for all the names in ArchiCAD it was very hard, and i didn't finished the test.

Thanks

gerstenlaub