Everyone,
I have been communicating with Laura London, an executive with Autodesk.
Autodesk is committed to supporting students, teachers AND mentors !! There are a couple of glitches in transitioning to the new system and they are working to resolve the problems.
from Laura,
"All mentors can join the Community and utilize all the FIRST specific resources, including software downloads and learning materials. This year teams have access to over 22 Autodesk products – which is a huge step up from years past. Each and every member of the team has this access, which again opens access up to as many FRC stakeholders as possible…students, teachers, mentors alike.
Now, all FIRST teams will be registering on the FIRST home page of our Community. Please go to
http://autodesk.com/first and click to “sign up”. You will then receive an email shortly confirming your registration. Once you click on the registration link in the email you will have activated your account and will be taken through the FIRST team steps.
We have created a FRC toolkit & there you may now create your team, download the software and much more. For your convenience and to help you and your teams through the new process we have created both an
FAQ and a
Step by Step guide. The Step by Step will help you create your team, invite your students, and will also be a great tool for your students during their registration."
continuing.......
"Your students no longer need to use a special invitation URL. They may also go to
http://autodesk.com/first however they will choose to join your team once you have set it up.
The next time you log in (you will always go to
http://autodesk.com/first), you should see the default site banner noting that you have been defaulted to the Mechanical Engineering Discipline within the Education Community (don’t worry if this needs to be changed as you may change it in your profile later). You will access the FIRST toolkit either by clicking the promo box on the right hand side of the page for the FIRST Toolkit or you may click on the Learn menu option and select FIRST from the dropdown.
"
If you have trouble send a help request
here
Ed
.