
As the instructor of this class I would make a simple bar graph and see the results of my entire class in a single picture:Īs the ins tructor I could put in an entire classes results and see exactly what areas of SolidWorks I would need to instruct on, based on this graph. The nice thing is once you get data into Excel, you can do lots of things with it. It exports an excel file that gives you this data: On that same screen there is an export option that will export the data from every student or engineer shown in this list. The ability to get this information is good, but what can you do with it. Rochino's results and we see a little different outcome:Īvelino did slightly better overall which perhaps is a result of him taking an extra minute to complete the exam! Unfortunately he only scored a 40 and failed, but perhaps if he had taken more then a minute on the exam he could have performed better! As you can see he is in desperate need of help when it comes to mate and assembly creation.

Luchini's name in the list I get the graphical feedback of how he did on his CSWA exam that he took. It's a relatively small class with only two students, but it gets the point across. In this first shot we can see the students that are in the 2009 Q1 M.E.

Instead of trying to explain it via text, lets look at some screen shots. When a team of engineers takes a certification exam, that data can be set up to be shared with a central person who can examine the results to get some idea of where his team is at. The most recent release of the Certification Center includes some management tools that can help engineering managers discover the strengths and weaknesses of their team.

This year the SolidWorks Certification Center has turned the corner and is on it's way to becoming an interactive area that will provide a number of tools that users and managers can use to do a variety of things.

Their interaction with the system was over and typically they forgot their log-in credentials for the Certification Center, and never found a need to go back. Once someone passed they were issued a certificate, they printed it out and hung it on the wall. The Certification exams offered by SolidWorks have long been a means to test a users skills, and to gage their ability to understand the SolidWorks software.
