Virtual Design & Construction Institute
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VDCI offers career-focused software training in 2D drafting (CAD), Building Information Modeling (BIM), and Virtual Design & Construction (VDC). We are committed to providing our students with the best training, tools, and resources to prepare them for a career in the design and construction industry. Our courses are approved by Autodesk, Adobe, Trimble, and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for eLearning.
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AI Coding Bootcamp with Claude Code Online (Self-Paced)
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Learn Claude Code on your own schedule while building full-stack web apps from the ground up.
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AI for HR Professionals (Private Sector) Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Build a personalized Claude workflow that enables you to produce HR documents, programs, and communications that are faster, clearer, and more consistent across the full employee lifecycle.
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AI for Sales Professionals Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Build a personalized Claude workflow that helps you research prospects, draft sales materials, and move deals forward more efficiently across the full sales cycle.
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AI for Business Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Enhance your business skills with ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot in this interactive program. Learn how to effectively use AI to streamline daily tasks and revolutionize your work across communication (email, meetings, and chat), writing, data analysis, decision-making, and more. You’ll begin by m...
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AI for Data Analytics Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Learn how to enhance data analysis with artificial intelligence by using AI tools to handle data collection, preprocessing, analysis, and visualization. This course focuses on practical techniques that allow you to extract insights without extensive programming knowledge.
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AI for the Workplace with Gemini Course Online (Self-Paced)
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This course teaches participants how to apply Google Gemini to research, write, analyze information, automate recurring tasks, and build a personalized AI workflow using tools such as Gems, Deep Research, NotebookLM, and Google Workspace.
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Personal Productivity Portfolio Development Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Design, build, and deploy a working document summarization and action-item dashboard, your first live application in the portfolio.
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Knowledge-Base Chatbot Portfolio Development Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Build and deploy a retrieval-augmented chatbot that answers from your own documents, manuals, and policies, suitable for customer support or internal knowledge.
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Marketing & Sales Portfolio Development Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Build and deploy revenue-facing applications: analytics-to-insight reporting, AI content generation, a sales CRM, and automated outreach.
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Finance & Compliance Portfolio Development Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Build and deploy a financial dashboard with calculations computed in code, plus an AI-assisted document and agreements hub with compliance workflows.
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Operations & Client Management Portfolio Development Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Build and deploy an agentic operations automation hub and a client-facing practice-management system with scheduling, billing, and a client portal.
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AI for UX & UI Design Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Run a full product challenge with AI at your side, from research analysis through inclusive design, prototyping, and testing.
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AI UX Design Portfolio Development Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Create three deployed UX/UI applications while building projects that bring together user research, design systems, usability testing, accessibility, AI workflows, and live app development.
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3D Modeling in AutoCAD Course Online (Self-Paced)
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AutoCAD is one of the most powerful tools available for building detailed, precise 3D models, and this course shows you how to get the most out of it. You'll work with a wide range of tools and features to create complex 3D shapes, add intricate details, and manipulate models by rotating, scaling, and moving individual components, all while applying colors, textures, and lighting effects that bring your designs to life. This course is built for...
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AI Workflows for AEC Professionals Course Online (Self-Paced)
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AI for AEC Professionals is a project-based online course designed to take your AI skills well beyond the basics. This course guides you through the full construction project lifecycle, teaching you how to build real automation tools using Large Language Models, generative design algorithms, and Python-based scripting. You'll work through practical challenges at every stage of a project, from site feasibility and schematic design through construction...
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AutoCAD for Interior Design Course Online (Self-Paced)
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This hands-on online course teaches you essential AutoCAD tools to transform both residential and commercial interior spaces. The curriculum helps students gain practical experience in real-world projects, including kitchen and bath design, egress plans, and furnishings layouts. Perfect for interior designers, furniture dealers, and property managers, this course equips you with the in-demand AutoCAD expertise to elevate your career and manage spaces...
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AutoCAD & Revit Certification Course Online (Self-Paced)
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This online certification course helps you build practical, job-ready skills in both AutoCAD and Revit while preparing you for Autodesk certification exams. You’ll learn how these tools are used together in professional architectural workflows, starting with the fundamentals and moving into more advanced techniques for creating accurate, industry-standard construction documents through various lessons and projects. Students will develop AutoCAD...
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BIM Certification Course Online (Self-Paced)
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Build a strong foundation in BIM at your own pace with this five-course Revit Architecture certification series. You’ll work through BIM fundamentals and intermediate concepts while creating 3D architectural models that automatically generate 2D drawings such as floor plans and elevations for construction projects. The self-paced format lets you develop professional Revit workflows on your schedule while preparing for the Autodesk Certification...
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Blueprint Reading Certification Course Online (Self-Paced)
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This program teaches you how to read and interpret construction blueprints across every major discipline. You start with residential drawings and the fundamentals of how a full set of construction documents fits together, then move into mixed-use commercial projects like hotels, retail spaces, and parking structures. From there you dig into the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems that bring a building to life, and finish with the structural...
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Commercial Blueprint Reading Certificate (Self-Paced)
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This certificate brings together everything you need to confidently read and understand commercial construction drawings. You’ll start with the fundamentals of architectural blueprints, learning how to navigate full drawing sets for projects like office buildings, retail spaces, and hospitality developments. From there, you’ll move into Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing plans, gaining clarity on how HVAC systems, electrical layouts, and plumbing...
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