First steps as an Autodesk Account Admin

Autodesk account administrators are trusted advisors for all Autodesk software. They create bridges between business objectives and technology. Knowing who your users are and what each product does, that your company purchased, ensures that you can empower your teams with the right software.

This content takes approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. By the end, you should be able to:

• Understand what an Autodesk account primary admin does and their value.
• Understand the different Autodesk subscription models and their benefits.
• Understand the industry collections and single products and how they are displayed in your account.
• Know where to find the resources you have access to from Autodesk.

Note: Autodesk is constantly evolving and improving how a primary admin manages their Autodesk Account. This content may vary slightly from what you may experience in your account.

• Understand what an Autodesk primary admin does and their value
• Understand the different Autodesk subscription models
• Understand the Autodesk industry collections and individual products
• Find the Autodesk resources you have access to
• Understanding Autodesk Account for primary admins - Quiz
• Understanding Autodesk Account for primary admins - Summary

You have received the link to your Autodesk account. The next step is to become familiar with your account and your subscription plan, as well as how to manage your users. Learn how to navigate Autodesk Account and review your subscription plan. You will then learn how to add your users and assign products to them.

This content takes approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. By the end, you should be able to:

• Navigate Autodesk Account.
• Identify your subscription plan.
• Manually add users and assign Autodesk licenses to them.
• Review Account Activity Log.

Note: Autodesk is constantly evolving and improving how a primary admin manages their Autodesk Account. This content may vary slightly from what you may experience in your account.

• Tour of Autodesk Account
• Review which subscriptions your company purchased
• Manage users and their products
• Review Account Activity Log
• Manage your Autodesk Account, software, and users - Quiz
• Manage your Autodesk Account, software, and users - Summary

Learn how to transition your company from a stand-alone maintenance plan, network maintenance plan, or multi-user subscription to a single-user subscription, where each user accesses Autodesk software under their own name, not just a serial number. This simplifies license and entitlement management and enables detailed product usage reporting, among other benefits. 

This content takes approximately 25 minutes to complete. By the end, you should be able to: 

• Understand the named user subscription model and how to transition to it.
• Inform users of the transition to the named user subscription model.
• Update your licensing.

Note: Autodesk is constantly evolving and improving how a primary admin manages their Autodesk Account. This content may vary slightly from what you may experience in your account.

• Transition to a named user subscription
• Inform your users about the transition to named user subscriptions
• Update your licensing
• Transition to a named user subscription model - Quiz
• Transition to a named user subscription model - Summary

Once you have assigned software to your users, you will want to discuss with them what software they have access to and help them understand the value of that software. Learn how to teach users to create an Autodesk account, activate and download their software, then teach them how to create an Autodesk account (using the correct email) and use that account to download their product and product updates. 

This content takes approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. By the end, you should be able to:

• Assist users in activating or setting up their Autodesk account.
• Assist users in understanding their Autodesk account.
• Teach users how to download, install, and activate their Autodesk software.
• Teach users how to update their Autodesk software to the latest version.

Note: Autodesk is constantly evolving and improving how a primary admin manages their Autodesk account. This content may vary slightly from what you may experience in your account.

• Teach users how to set up an Autodesk Account
• Assist users in understanding Autodesk Account
• Teach users how to download, install, and activate Autodesk software
• Teach users how to update their Autodesk software
• Teach your users how to access their Autodesk account and software - Quiz
• Teach your users how to access their Autodesk Account and software - Summary