Integrate your Autodesk technology into your business

Course overview

Learn how to review insights and seat usage reports to make purchasing decisions according to software usage. You will also learn how to assign another person within your company as a secondary admin and teach them how to take care of administrative duties.

By the end, you will be able to:

Manage your Autodesk subscriptions and understand your usage reports.
Use usage report data to decide whether to purchase or reduce licenses for your Autodesk account.
Train a secondary admin as a backup administrator for your account.

Course downloads

These downloadable resources will be used to complete modules in this course:

CSO-AA-M3_001_T003_Downloadable Resources.zip - (136 kb)

Course outline

15 min.

Manage subscriptions and understand usage reports

Autodesk provides tools for helping you manage your subscriptions and product purchases. Knowing exactly who has launched which software and how often products are being used will help ensure every license you have purchased is being utilized. Learn how to review billing and contract information, what subscription management tools are available, and how to read and understand usage reports.

Module outline

Autodesk provides tools for helping you manage your subscriptions and product purchases. Knowing exactly who has launched which software and how often products are being used will help ensure every license you have purchased is being utilized. Learn how to review billing and contract information, what subscription management tools are available, and how to read and understand usage reports.

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

Manage subscriptions and view billing and contract information.
Make sure all your licenses are fully utilized.
Understand insights and seat usage reports for single-user subscriptions.
Understand token usage reports for Flex subscriptions.

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

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15 min.

Purchase or reduce licenses according to usage report data

Now that you are familiar with the usage reports available to you, you can use that data to know when to purchase additional licenses or reduce the number of seats for your team. Learn how to purchase licenses, reduce seats, and view recent purchases for your account.

Module outline

Now that you are familiar with the usage reports available to you, you can use that data to know when to purchase additional licenses or reduce the number of seats for your team. Learn how to purchase licenses, reduce seats, and view recent purchases for your account.

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

Purchase additional licenses according to usage reports.
Know when and how to reduce licenses.
View recent purchase information for your account.

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

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15 min.

Train a secondary admin to back you up

Having a backup admin available to ensure everyone’s software keeps working even when you are not available is priceless. Learn how to assign or reassign admin rights to another person so you can take that much needed vacation.

Module outline

Having a backup admin available to ensure everyone’s software keeps working even when you are not available is priceless. Learn how to assign or reassign admin rights to another person so you can take that much needed vacation.

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

Understand the differences between primary admins and secondary admins.
Set up a secondary admin and inform them of their role.
Reassign the primary admin rights to someone else and notify them of the change.

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