First let us define what an "Open Enrollment" class is. An Open Enrollment class is a class where anyone can sign up and join in. The class is held in some common area like a conference center, hotel conference room, or other office facility. Anyone can sign up, pay the attendance fee, show up at the facility, and be trained. In a class like this you might find a combination of DOT users, US Army Corps users, individuals from the private sector doing roadway work, site work, and even the occasional landscape Architect or Surveyor. These classes have a formal and ridge structure to ensure that everyone understands the basics of the software.
The answer is 'yes' and 'no'.
In the early years of Zen Engineering these types of classes where periodically held once or twice a year depending on demand. In recent years these classes have not been held for several reasons. 1) Zen Engineering has a high demand for training within a single company or agency. Because of this we have directed more focus to providing a much more customizable class to specific individuals that all share a common goal influenced by their management. We have found that training a specific company or agency has significant advantages for them in terms of class content. In classes like these we can modify the content to conform to the needs of that particular company or agency. In an open-enrollment class this is much more difficult because there are such diverse interests among the attendees. 2) There is a licensing issue. The attendees coming to the class are required to utilize their own licenses to run the software. As you may know the InRoads software combined with the underlying CAD platform is fairly expensive. Obtaining a dozen or more licenses of the software is very expensive and few (if any) independent training companies, besides Bentley, have this quantity of licenses available.
That being said we are expanding into providing online training over the Internet as a lower cost solution for those with only 1 or 2 users requiring training. In addition to that it is also possible for us to coordinate the licensing to hold an onsite Open Enrollment class if the demand is there.
Please don't hesitate to contact us with your needs.
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