Okay, so some thoughts on the BIM assignment.
The assignments probably was integrated as well as it should be. BIM suggests an environment where multiple users working on a project at any time, with any number of users at once. What we are doing now probably isn't true BIM, because of server port issues on the university network interfering with the bimserver, practically most of us have to be in university to work on the model. This defeats the purpose of the BIM assignment in the first place, since doing so is basically a fancy way of "passing the thumb drive around", for lack of a better term.
Because of the network issue, most of us are forced to work within together in the computer lab. This bypasses the need for communication systems like the blogs (although, to be fair, we do trade information regularly on facebook and Whatsapp). BIM can be a complicated and frustrating process, and it doesn't help that AC as the BIM client can be a bit buggy and slow.
Personally, as the render monkey, I'd like to see some integration with different rendering systems with the BIM system. Because rendering is a very resource intensive and time-consuming process, it could be possible to use the existing BiM network as a render farm of sorts. The network and the programs are there, but not the operability. Perhaps if the network is set up in such a way that it is able to make use of idle computers and their processors, rendering jobs can be uploaded, distributed and retrieved by all users, and the amount of processing power would probably reduce render times dramatically.
But alas, I'm not much of a networking expert. Perhaps not a university scale, but certainly possible in an office/studio environment.
My two cents anyway.
-Saunder
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