Applied professional course
Mixed-Use Development Yield Testing and Phasing
Test how much of each use a mixed-use site can carry, and sequence delivery so early phases work on their own.
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Written course content
Client-style brief
A regeneration site of 6 hectares is to deliver homes, workspace, ground-floor active uses and public open space over eight to ten years. The client team needs to know what quantum is genuinely achievable, what mix balances viability against placemaking, how parking and servicing are absorbed, and how the site can be phased so each stage stands alone if the programme stalls.
Professional scenario
Synthetic urban regeneration site with two retained buildings, a level change to a canal edge, an existing through route used by the public, and an adopted highway on two frontages.
Planning problem
Mixed-use quantum is often asserted, then reduced repeatedly as parking, servicing, daylight and open-space requirements bite. The professional problem is to test yield against every competing demand at the same time, and to phase the result so early stages are complete places rather than fragments.
Learning objectives
- Build a capacity model that tests all land demands simultaneously.
- Test block and typology options against daylight, amenity and servicing constraints.
- Resolve parking and servicing without destroying the ground-floor environment.
- Balance quantum against placemaking with explicit trade-off statements.
- Produce a phasing strategy in which every phase is independently complete.
Modules and lessons
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Module 1
Module 1 — Capacity model and competing demands
Build one model in which every land demand competes honestly.
Listing residential, workspace, active frontage, open space, drainage, servicing, parking, retained buildings and movement as competing area demands, and building a budget that cannot silently exceed the site.
Practical exercise: Build the land budget for the site with a stated area demand for every category.
Checkpoint: The budget totals the site area exactly, with any deficit shown openly.
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Setting a block structure from movement and frontage logic, testing whether chosen typologies fit the resulting block depths, and identifying blocks that cannot be built as drawn.
Practical exercise: Test three typologies against each block and mark every non-viable combination.
Checkpoint: Each block records at least one typology that physically fits it.
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Why height is limited by separation and amenity long before it is limited by policy, indicative separation testing, courtyard performance, and recording where quantum is being bought at the cost of living conditions.
Practical exercise: Run indicative separation and courtyard tests on two blocks and record the yield effect.
Checkpoint: Any yield increase is accompanied by its amenity consequence.
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Example data: Synthetic site survey, retained building footprints, an Ideeplan-owned area demand teaching dataset.
Module output: Integrated capacity model with a land budget.
Module 2
Module 2 — Yield scenarios, parking and servicing
Produce comparable quantum options that survive servicing reality.
Varying height, coverage and mix systematically so scenarios can be compared, and holding constant everything that is not being tested.
Practical exercise: Produce three scenarios with full schedules of accommodation and a single comparison table.
Checkpoint: Only the tested variables change between scenarios.
Video lesson: Not recorded — written lesson above
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Surface, undercroft, podium and basement options; how each consumes land, value and ground-floor quality; and how a lower parking ratio must be justified by accessibility evidence rather than by preference.
Practical exercise: Test two parking strategies against each scenario and quantify the land and frontage cost of each.
Checkpoint: Every parking strategy shows its effect on active frontage length.
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Consolidating servicing points, tracking a servicing vehicle to every block, refuse storage and drag distances, and keeping service doors off primary public frontage.
Practical exercise: Produce a servicing plan showing a tracked route to every block and marked refuse positions.
Checkpoint: Every block is serviceable and no primary frontage is given over to servicing.
Video lesson: Not recorded — written lesson above
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Example data: Synthetic parking demand ranges, servicing vehicle requirements and mix teaching data.
Module output: Three yield scenarios with schedules and a servicing strategy.
Module 3
Module 3 — Trade-offs, phasing and the yield report
Choose a scheme with reasons and phase it so it can actually be built.
Comparing scenarios on quantum, quality, servicing, open space and deliverability; writing trade-offs as explicit statements so the client chooses with full information.
Practical exercise: Write a trade-off statement per scenario and recommend a preferred quantum with reasons.
Checkpoint: The recommendation names what is being given up, not only what is gained.
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Phase boundaries that produce finished edges, delivering open space and route connections early rather than last, interim conditions on undeveloped land, and keeping later phases unprejudiced.
Practical exercise: Produce a four-phase plan showing the completed public realm and edge condition at the end of each phase.
Checkpoint: Each phase ends as a usable place with no unresolved temporary edge onto a public route.
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Reporting method, assumptions, scenarios, servicing, trade-offs, preferred strategy and phasing, with every figure marked indicative and every standard flagged for local confirmation.
Practical exercise: Assemble the full report and run an arithmetic reconciliation across all schedules.
Checkpoint: Every schedule in the report reconciles with the land budget.
Video lesson: Not recorded — written lesson above
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Example data: Synthetic delivery programme constraints and an Ideeplan-owned yield report structure.
Module output: Preferred yield strategy, phasing plan and yield testing report.
Project brief
A synthetic 6-hectare urban regeneration site with two retained buildings, a canal-edge level change, a public through route and two adopted highway frontages.
Your role: Planner leading yield testing and phasing for the client team.
Information available
- Synthetic site survey and retained building footprints.
- Ideeplan-owned area demand, mix and parking teaching datasets.
- Servicing vehicle requirements as teaching parameters.
- Delivery programme constraints and report structure.
Required analysis
- Land budget across all competing demands.
- Block and typology fit testing.
- Separation and amenity limits on yield.
- Parking and servicing spatial cost.
- Phasing completeness testing.
Required outputs
- Land budget and capacity model.
- Block and typology fit matrix.
- Three yield scenarios with schedules.
- Parking comparison and servicing plan.
- Trade-off statements and preferred strategy.
- Four-phase plan with completed edge conditions.
Presentation standard: All areas reconciled to the land budget, quantum marked indicative, servicing routes drawn not described, and phase plans showing the end state of each phase.
Marking criteria
- Model integrity: The land budget balances and every schedule reconciles to it.
- Comparability: Scenarios differ only in the variables being tested.
- Servicing realism: Every block is serviceable with a tracked route and no dead primary frontage.
- Honest trade-offs: Each yield gain is reported with its quality or amenity cost.
- Phasing completeness: Every phase ends as a complete, usable place.
Quality-assurance checklist
- Land budget totals the site area with any deficit stated.
- Every block records a typology that physically fits.
- Parking strategies report their frontage and land cost.
- Each phase has finished edges and delivered public realm.
- Local parking, amenity, daylight and open-space standards must be confirmed with the authority.
Common mistakes and correction tasks
- Quoting a quantum before testing parking and servicing. Correction: Re-run the capacity model with parking and servicing as land demands and restate the quantum.
- Comparing scenarios that vary in several ways at once. Correction: Hold all but the tested variable constant and rebuild the comparison table.
- Leaving public open space to the final phase. Correction: Re-sequence delivery so each phase provides usable open space and a completed edge.
- Placing refuse and service doors on the primary frontage. Correction: Consolidate servicing to secondary access points and re-track the servicing vehicle route.
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Practical project materials
Written project materials for this course: the project brief, the synthetic scenario, the schedules, checklists and worksheets a learner works through, and the marking and correction sheets used to review the result.
Synthetic training material authored by Ideeplan. Not a real site, not a client project, and not survey-verified. These materials are written content shown on this page. Downloadable files are not currently available, no worked example file has been produced, and no material here has been professionally reviewed or approved.
Practical resources
Resources for this course
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All demonstration material is synthetic, publicly licensed or owned by Ideeplan Consult and is labelled as demonstration material. No confidential client file, personal information, private agency document or unreleased project drawing is used.
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Practical project brief
Sets the professional situation, the role the learner takes and what must be produced.
- Resource type
- Brief
- Format
- Written brief shown on this page
- Status
- Draft
- Data classification
- Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan
- Lessons supported
- 9 — One brief governs the whole course: every lesson exercise contributes to the same final deliverable.
- Access
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- A synthetic 6-hectare urban regeneration site with two retained buildings, a canal-edge level change, a public through route and two adopted highway frontages.
- Your role: Planner leading yield testing and phasing for the client team.
- Available information: Synthetic site survey and retained building footprints.
- Available information: Ideeplan-owned area demand, mix and parking teaching datasets.
- Available information: Servicing vehicle requirements as teaching parameters.
- Available information: Delivery programme constraints and report structure.
- Required analysis: Land budget across all competing demands.
- Required analysis: Block and typology fit testing.
- Required analysis: Separation and amenity limits on yield.
- Required analysis: Parking and servicing spatial cost.
- Required analysis: Phasing completeness testing.
Resource file not yet available. The written instructions on this page are complete and can be followed without any download, account, enrolment or payment.
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Client-style instruction and problem statement
Gives the learner the instruction as a practitioner would receive it, and names the problem to be solved.
- Resource type
- Brief
- Format
- Written statement shown on this page
- Status
- Draft
- Data classification
- Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan
- Lessons supported
- 9 — Scenario framing applies to every lesson in the course.
- Access
- No account required — written preview is public
Synthetic urban regeneration site with two retained buildings, a level change to a canal edge, an existing through route used by the public, and an adopted highway on two frontages.
Mixed-use quantum is often asserted, then reduced repeatedly as parking, servicing, daylight and open-space requirements bite. The professional problem is to test yield against every competing demand at the same time, and to phase the result so early stages are complete places rather than fragments.
Resource file not yet available. The written instructions on this page are complete and can be followed without any download, account, enrolment or payment.
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Module 1 learner worksheet — Module 1 — Capacity model and competing demands
Lists the practical steps the learner carries out in this module, in order.
- Resource type
- Worksheet
- Format
- Written worksheet shown on this page
- Status
- Draft
- Data classification
- Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Integrated capacity model with a land budget.
- Lessons supported
- 3 — Supports the 3 lessons in module 1, which build one shared output.
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- The land budget: every demand on one page — Build the land budget for the site with a stated area demand for every category.
- Block structure and typology fit — Test three typologies against each block and mark every non-viable combination.
- Daylight, amenity and separation as yield limits — Run indicative separation and courtyard tests on two blocks and record the yield effect.
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Module 2 learner worksheet — Module 2 — Yield scenarios, parking and servicing
Lists the practical steps the learner carries out in this module, in order.
- Resource type
- Worksheet
- Format
- Written worksheet shown on this page
- Status
- Draft
- Data classification
- Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Three yield scenarios with schedules and a servicing strategy.
- Lessons supported
- 3 — Supports the 3 lessons in module 2, which build one shared output.
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- Building comparable yield scenarios — Produce three scenarios with full schedules of accommodation and a single comparison table.
- Parking strategies and their spatial cost — Test two parking strategies against each scenario and quantify the land and frontage cost of each.
- Servicing, refuse and deliveries without dead frontage — Produce a servicing plan showing a tracked route to every block and marked refuse positions.
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Module 3 learner worksheet — Module 3 — Trade-offs, phasing and the yield report
Lists the practical steps the learner carries out in this module, in order.
- Resource type
- Worksheet
- Format
- Written worksheet shown on this page
- Status
- Draft
- Data classification
- Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Preferred yield strategy, phasing plan and yield testing report.
- Lessons supported
- 3 — Supports the 3 lessons in module 3, which build one shared output.
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- Stating trade-offs and selecting a preferred quantum — Write a trade-off statement per scenario and recommend a preferred quantum with reasons.
- Phasing so every phase is a complete place — Produce a four-phase plan showing the completed public realm and edge condition at the end of each phase.
- Assembling the yield testing report — Assemble the full report and run an arithmetic reconciliation across all schedules.
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Task checklist
Confirms every required piece of work has been produced before submission.
- Resource type
- Checklist
- Format
- Written checklist shown on this page
- Status
- Draft
- Data classification
- Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan
- Lessons supported
- 9 — A single task checklist tracks progress across all modules.
- Access
- No account required — written preview is public
- Land budget and capacity model.
- Block and typology fit matrix.
- Three yield scenarios with schedules.
- Parking comparison and servicing plan.
- Trade-off statements and preferred strategy.
- Four-phase plan with completed edge conditions.
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Example data and drawing base
Synthetic site survey, retained building footprints, an Ideeplan-owned area demand teaching dataset. GIS exercises are planned around plain, checkable formats: CSV and clearly labelled local-grid JSON on the named grid IDP-LOCAL-GRID. GeoJSON is not used for local-grid training data because the format asserts WGS 84 degrees. No QGIS project file, GeoPackage or raster file is claimed.
- Resource type
- GIS exercise pack
- Format
- CSV and local-grid JSON (planned) — no GeoJSON, QGIS project, GeoPackage or raster file is claimed
- Status
- Planned
- Data classification
- Synthetic demonstration data
- Licence or ownership
- Synthetic demonstration material prepared by Ideeplan Consult. No client file, personal information, private agency document or unreleased project drawing is used.
- Related deliverable
- Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan
- Lessons supported
- 9 — One demonstration data base is used by every lesson so results stay comparable.
- Access
- No account required — written preview is public
Demonstration data item What it contains and how it is used Data ownership and licence Synthetic training data prepared and owned by Ideeplan Consult. It is fictional: it is not a real client project, a real site or a real location, and it must not be presented as one. Free to study on this page; redistribution is not permitted. Module 1 input — Module 1 — Capacity model and competing demands Synthetic site survey, retained building footprints, an Ideeplan-owned area demand teaching dataset. Module 2 input — Module 2 — Yield scenarios, parking and servicing Synthetic parking demand ranges, servicing vehicle requirements and mix teaching data. Module 3 input — Module 3 — Trade-offs, phasing and the yield report Synthetic delivery programme constraints and an Ideeplan-owned yield report structure. Lawful sourcing where real data is substituted Where a learner substitutes real data, use only openly licensed or lawfully obtained sources, record the publisher, dataset title, version and access date, and cite them in the final deliverable. Do not use restricted, confidential or personal data. Resource file not yet available. The written instructions on this page are complete and can be followed without any download, account, enrolment or payment.
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Analysis and calculation template
Structures the analysis so assumptions are visible and checkable. Any figures used in a template are teaching assumptions, not market evidence. Local costs, policies, standards and valuation assumptions must be independently confirmed before any of this is applied to a real project.
- Resource type
- Suitability matrix
- Format
- CSV matrix (planned)
- Status
- Planned
- Data classification
- Synthetic demonstration data
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan
- Lessons supported
- 9 — The same analysis structure is completed progressively through the course.
- Access
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- Record every assumption on its own labelled row, with the source or reason beside it.
- Module 1 working section — Integrated capacity model with a land budget.
- Module 2 working section — Three yield scenarios with schedules and a servicing strategy.
- Module 3 working section — Preferred yield strategy, phasing plan and yield testing report.
- Required output carried into the analysis — Land budget and capacity model.
- Required output carried into the analysis — Block and typology fit matrix.
- Required output carried into the analysis — Three yield scenarios with schedules.
- Required output carried into the analysis — Parking comparison and servicing plan.
- Required output carried into the analysis — Trade-off statements and preferred strategy.
- Required output carried into the analysis — Four-phase plan with completed edge conditions.
- Check row: totals, units and areas reconcile before the result is carried into the deliverable.
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Final deliverable template
Sets the expected structure and presentation standard for Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan.
- Resource type
- Site plan base
- Format
- PDF and DXF (planned)
- Status
- Planned
- Data classification
- Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan
- Lessons supported
- 9 — The final deliverable draws on every module output.
- Access
- No account required — written preview is public
- Final named deliverable — Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan
- Section 1 — Integrated capacity model with a land budget.
- Section 2 — Three yield scenarios with schedules and a servicing strategy.
- Section 3 — Preferred yield strategy, phasing plan and yield testing report.
- Must be present — Land budget and capacity model.
- Must be present — Block and typology fit matrix.
- Must be present — Three yield scenarios with schedules.
- Must be present — Parking comparison and servicing plan.
- Must be present — Trade-off statements and preferred strategy.
- Must be present — Four-phase plan with completed edge conditions.
- Presentation and submission standard — All areas reconciled to the land budget, quantum marked indicative, servicing routes drawn not described, and phase plans showing the end state of each phase.
- Sources and citations: list every dataset, publisher, version and access date used, and state clearly where synthetic Ideeplan training data was used.
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Quality-control checklist
Professional checks to run before the work is treated as finished.
- Resource type
- Checklist
- Format
- Written checklist shown on this page
- Status
- Draft
- Data classification
- Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan
- Lessons supported
- 9 — Quality control is applied to the whole submission, not to a single lesson.
- Access
- No account required — written preview is public
- Land budget totals the site area with any deficit stated.
- Every block records a typology that physically fits.
- Parking strategies report their frontage and land cost.
- Each phase has finished edges and delivered public realm.
- Local parking, amenity, daylight and open-space standards must be confirmed with the authority.
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Marking and review rubric
States what a satisfactory professional standard looks like for each criterion.
- Resource type
- Marking rubric
- Format
- Written rubric shown on this page
- Status
- Draft
- Data classification
- Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan
- Lessons supported
- 9 — One rubric reviews the final deliverable produced across all modules.
- Access
- No account required — written preview is public
Criterion Satisfactory standard Model integrity The land budget balances and every schedule reconciles to it. Comparability Scenarios differ only in the variables being tested. Servicing realism Every block is serviceable with a tracked route and no dead primary frontage. Honest trade-offs Each yield gain is reported with its quality or amenity cost. Phasing completeness Every phase ends as a complete, usable place. Resource file not yet available. The written instructions on this page are complete and can be followed without any download, account, enrolment or payment.
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Correction-task sheet
Common professional mistakes and the correction the learner practises.
- Resource type
- Correction-task sheet
- Format
- Written task sheet shown on this page
- Status
- Draft
- Data classification
- Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan
- Lessons supported
- 9 — Correction tasks address mistakes that can appear anywhere in the course.
- Access
- No account required — written preview is public
- Quoting a quantum before testing parking and servicing. — Re-run the capacity model with parking and servicing as land demands and restate the quantum.
- Comparing scenarios that vary in several ways at once. — Hold all but the tested variable constant and rebuild the comparison table.
- Leaving public open space to the final phase. — Re-sequence delivery so each phase provides usable open space and a completed edge.
- Placing refuse and service doors on the primary frontage. — Consolidate servicing to secondary access points and re-track the servicing vehicle route.
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Submission guidance
How the finished work should be assembled and presented for professional review.
- Resource type
- Checklist
- Format
- Written guidance shown on this page
- Status
- Draft
- Data classification
- Ideeplan-owned demonstration material
- Licence or ownership
- Ideeplan Consult-owned teaching material. Free to read on this page; redistribution is not permitted.
- Related deliverable
- Mixed-use yield testing report with preferred strategy and phasing plan
- Lessons supported
- 9 — Submission guidance covers the single final deliverable.
- Access
- No account required — written preview is public
All areas reconciled to the land budget, quantum marked indicative, servicing routes drawn not described, and phase plans showing the end state of each phase.
Resource file not yet available. The written instructions on this page are complete and can be followed without any download, account, enrolment or payment.
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Video lessons for this course
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- Professional narration — planned, not produced
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- Transcript
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- Software demonstration
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- Software version and operating system
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- Production plan
- Prepared for professional review
- Enrolment, payment and downloads
- Disabled
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- The exact software name, version, operating system and relevant workspace are stated on screen and in the lesson notes, as read from the recorded session.
- The real interface is shown: menus, panels, toolbars, properties, layer controls, settings and the command line or log.
- The real cursor, tool selection, commands, settings and the resulting output are visible.
- Capture is 16:9 and readable at 720p, with clear, unhurried cursor movement; the screen stays clear enough for learners to follow.
- The view zooms in whenever text, settings, coordinates or field values would otherwise be hard to read.
- The exact command, menu path or tool name is shown as it appears in the software.
- Useful keyboard shortcuts are shown alongside the menu path, never instead of it.
- Differences between software versions or operating systems are stated wherever the interface may display differently.
- Steps are numbered on screen, with callouts pointing at the actual control being used.
- Any annotation is added only after recording and must never alter or misrepresent the software interface.
- Captions and a complete transcript are produced before professional review.
- Any presenter window stays small, is positioned clear of technical content, and is hidden on mobile widths and on dense technical screens.
Interface visibility on every recording
- The full application interface is shown at the beginning of every demonstration, with the application identity and exact version clearly visible.
- The relevant menu bar, ribbon, toolbar or toolbox stays visible while each step is explained; the interface context is never cropped away.
- Layers, properties, project browser or data panels are shown wherever applicable.
- The command line, status bar or coordinate/CRS information is shown wherever relevant.
- Real cursor movement and visible clicks are captured, with visible cursor highlighting or click indicators.
- The selected tool and its effect are visible, and complete dialog boxes and settings are shown whenever one is opened.
- The resulting drawing, map, model or output is shown in the recording.
- Zoom is used only when necessary for small text or settings, always retaining enough context to identify the application and tool in use.
- The standard applies to every software course and is verified before any video is marked recorded or approved; if the required authentic interface is not visible, the lesson remains “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.”
Never used
- Generic website mockups standing in for a software workspace.
- Simulated, redrawn, reconstructed or redesigned replica interfaces for any software.
- AI-generated software screens, panels, dialogs or map canvases.
- Generic illustrations replacing the real interface.
- Unverified screenshots taken from any source other than the recorded session.
- Fake video players, placeholder thumbnails or invented durations.
- Invented menus, tool names, command names, dialog options or keyboard shortcuts.
- Hiding important controls or covering them with a presenter window.
- Annotations that alter or misrepresent the recorded software interface.
- Claiming or implying that a simulated screen is an authentic software demonstration.
AutoCAD — what the recording must show
Exact AutoCAD release to be stated from the recorded session. Operating system to be stated from the recorded session; ribbon layout and shortcuts differ between Windows and Mac.
- 1.Drawing setup: new drawing, template choice and workspace.
- 2.Units: the UNITS dialog, unit type, precision and insertion scale.
- 3.Layers: the Layer Properties Manager, layer creation, colour, linetype and lineweight.
- 4.Object properties: the Properties palette and how an object's layer and overrides are read.
- 5.Commands: the command line with the exact command typed, including options and prompts.
- 6.Dimensions: dimension style settings and a dimension placed on real geometry.
- 7.Layouts: layout tabs, sheet size and page setup.
- 8.Viewports: viewport creation, scale setting and viewport locking.
- 9.Title blocks: title block insertion and completion of the sheet fields.
- 10.Plot settings: the PLOT dialog, plot style, paper size, scale and preview.
- 11.Final drawing checks: audit, purge, layer check and a measured check against the plotted scale.
QGIS — what the recording must show
Exact QGIS version to be stated from the recorded session. Operating system to be stated from the recorded session; menu positions and file dialogs differ between systems.
- 1.Project CRS: Project Properties, the CRS tab and the selected coordinate reference system.
- 2.Layer loading: the Data Source Manager or Browser panel and the layer added to the canvas.
- 3.Layer properties: the Layer Properties dialog and each tab used in the lesson.
- 4.Symbology: the Symbology tab with the real renderer, classes and colour settings.
- 5.Attribute tables: the attribute table, field values, selection and expression use.
- 6.Processing tools: the Processing Toolbox with the tool searched and opened by its real name.
- 7.Analysis settings: every parameter in the tool dialog, including output location.
- 8.Map layout: the Print Layout window, page setup and map item.
- 9.Legend, scale and north arrow: each item added from the real layout toolbar.
- 10.Export and quality checks: the export dialog settings and a check of the exported file.
No authentic software recording or screenshot exists yet. Every software lesson remains “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.”
Real professional classroom experience — every lesson
Applies to every future Academy lesson, software-based or not. The finished lesson presents as authentic professional training, professionally narrated and screen-led: video + written guide + supporting data + practical task + quality checklist + final named deliverable.
Lesson structure
- 1.Professional introduction.
- 2.Realistic project situation.
- 3.Learner role within that situation.
- 4.Problem statement.
- 5.Learning objectives.
- 6.Required software and data.
- 7.Step-by-step demonstration.
- 8.Explanation of the professional reasoning behind each action.
- 9.Practical learner task.
- 10.Checkpoint or pause activity.
- 11.Common mistake and its correction.
- 12.Quality-control review.
- 13.Final recap.
- 14.Named learner deliverable.
Video requirements
- Professional narration that is clear, natural and paced for instruction, synchronised with the screen action.
- Authentic screen recording from the actual software, with visible menus, tools, panels, commands, settings and outputs.
- Natural cursor movement and deliberate pacing, with a clear explanation of why each action is taken.
- Realistic corrections and troubleshooting shown, not edited away.
- Clear 16:9 screen capture.
- Captions and a complete transcript.
- Chapter titles and lesson sections.
- A small presenter window only where useful; it never covers technical content and is hidden on mobile or dense technical screens.
Never produced as a lesson
- Automated slideshows.
- Generic screen tours.
- Silent software demonstrations.
- Marketing videos presented as lessons.
- AI-avatar presentations.
- Simulated software tutorials.
- Fast montages without explanation.
- An invented tutor, instructor identity, voice, recording, thumbnail or completion status.
Lessons use only synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned examples. No confidential client information is used.
No genuine professional recording exists yet. Until one does, every lesson remains “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.” Enrolment, payments, certificates and protected learner access stay disabled during this production stage.
Professional narration and screen-first production
- Every Academy lesson is planned as a professionally narrated, screen-led practical lesson with captions and a complete transcript.
- No AI avatar, virtual presenter or artificial talking head is used, and no named person is imitated. No lesson is described as human-narrated, instructor-led by a named person or personally presented unless that is factually true.
- No instructor identity is published until a real, named professional has recorded and approved the lesson.
- Recordings are screen-first: the GIS view, planning drawing, AutoCAD or Revit workspace or document remains the main subject of the frame.
- Any presenter picture-in-picture normally occupies about 8–10% of the frame, never covers technical content, and is reduced or hidden on small screens.
- The Principal Consultant portrait is reserved for approved introductions and conclusions. It is never used as a repeated course thumbnail, and the Academy remains company-first.
No lesson has been recorded and no narration has been produced. Scripts exist as production plans only, and every lesson video status remains “Not recorded”.
Demonstration material is synthetic, publicly licensed or owned by Ideeplan Consult. No confidential client file, unauthorised agency dataset or private project information is used.
Methods are jurisdiction-neutral. Learners must confirm local laws, policies and technical standards before applying them to a real project.
A production plan describes how a lesson would be recorded. It is not a recording, and it does not create an enrolment, account, payment or reserved place.
9 lesson production plans · suggested recording time about 90 minutes in total (a planning estimate, not a recorded duration) · every lesson video status: Not recorded.
Lesson 1 · Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.
The land budget: every demand on one page
- Learning objective
- Listing residential, workspace, active frontage, open space, drainage, servicing, parking, retained buildings and movement as competing area demands, and building a budget that cannot silently exceed the site.
- Narration focus
- Build one model in which every land demand competes honestly.
- Screen action
- Build the land budget for the site with a stated area demand for every category.
- Required software
- QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool
- Example data
- Synthetic site survey, retained building footprints, an Ideeplan-owned area demand teaching dataset.
- Expected learner output
- The budget totals the site area exactly, with any deficit shown openly.
- Suggested length
- About 8 minutes (planning estimate)
- Captions and transcript
- Required before professional review
- Narration
- Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
- 1.Listing residential, workspace, active frontage, open space, drainage, servicing, parking, retained buildings and movement as competing area demands, and building a budget that cannot silently exceed the site.
- 2.Build the land budget for the site with a stated area demand for every category.
- 3.The budget totals the site area exactly, with any deficit shown openly.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- Capture is a genuine screen recording from the real application — no mockup, simulated interface, AI-generated screen or unverified screenshot.
- The exact software name, version and, where relevant, operating system are read from the recorded session and stated on screen.
- Menus, panels, toolbars, layer controls and the command line or log are visible and legible; the view zooms in wherever text, settings or coordinates would be hard to read.
- The full application interface is shown at the beginning; menus, tools and panels stay visible throughout and the interface context is never cropped away, with zoom retaining enough context to identify the application and tool.
- Real cursor movement with visible highlighting or click indicators is captured; the selected tool, its effect, complete dialogs and the resulting output are all shown.
- The exact command, menu path or tool name is shown as it appears in the software, with useful keyboard shortcuts alongside it and alternative locations explained for other versions.
- Numbered on-screen steps and callouts point at the real controls being used; no menu, tool or command is invented.
- Until an authentic recording exists the lesson reads: “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.”
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Lesson 2 · Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.
Block structure and typology fit
- Learning objective
- Setting a block structure from movement and frontage logic, testing whether chosen typologies fit the resulting block depths, and identifying blocks that cannot be built as drawn.
- Narration focus
- Build one model in which every land demand competes honestly.
- Screen action
- Test three typologies against each block and mark every non-viable combination.
- Required software
- QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool
- Example data
- Synthetic site survey, retained building footprints, an Ideeplan-owned area demand teaching dataset.
- Expected learner output
- Each block records at least one typology that physically fits it.
- Suggested length
- About 10 minutes (planning estimate)
- Captions and transcript
- Required before professional review
- Narration
- Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
- 1.Setting a block structure from movement and frontage logic, testing whether chosen typologies fit the resulting block depths, and identifying blocks that cannot be built as drawn.
- 2.Test three typologies against each block and mark every non-viable combination.
- 3.Each block records at least one typology that physically fits it.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- Capture is a genuine screen recording from the real application — no mockup, simulated interface, AI-generated screen or unverified screenshot.
- The exact software name, version and, where relevant, operating system are read from the recorded session and stated on screen.
- Menus, panels, toolbars, layer controls and the command line or log are visible and legible; the view zooms in wherever text, settings or coordinates would be hard to read.
- The full application interface is shown at the beginning; menus, tools and panels stay visible throughout and the interface context is never cropped away, with zoom retaining enough context to identify the application and tool.
- Real cursor movement with visible highlighting or click indicators is captured; the selected tool, its effect, complete dialogs and the resulting output are all shown.
- The exact command, menu path or tool name is shown as it appears in the software, with useful keyboard shortcuts alongside it and alternative locations explained for other versions.
- Numbered on-screen steps and callouts point at the real controls being used; no menu, tool or command is invented.
- Until an authentic recording exists the lesson reads: “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.”
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Lesson 3 · Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.
Daylight, amenity and separation as yield limits
- Learning objective
- Why height is limited by separation and amenity long before it is limited by policy, indicative separation testing, courtyard performance, and recording where quantum is being bought at the cost of living conditions.
- Narration focus
- Build one model in which every land demand competes honestly.
- Screen action
- Run indicative separation and courtyard tests on two blocks and record the yield effect.
- Required software
- QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool
- Example data
- Synthetic site survey, retained building footprints, an Ideeplan-owned area demand teaching dataset.
- Expected learner output
- Any yield increase is accompanied by its amenity consequence.
- Suggested length
- About 12 minutes (planning estimate)
- Captions and transcript
- Required before professional review
- Narration
- Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
- 1.Why height is limited by separation and amenity long before it is limited by policy, indicative separation testing, courtyard performance, and recording where quantum is being bought at the cost of living conditions.
- 2.Run indicative separation and courtyard tests on two blocks and record the yield effect.
- 3.Any yield increase is accompanied by its amenity consequence.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- Capture is a genuine screen recording from the real application — no mockup, simulated interface, AI-generated screen or unverified screenshot.
- The exact software name, version and, where relevant, operating system are read from the recorded session and stated on screen.
- Menus, panels, toolbars, layer controls and the command line or log are visible and legible; the view zooms in wherever text, settings or coordinates would be hard to read.
- The full application interface is shown at the beginning; menus, tools and panels stay visible throughout and the interface context is never cropped away, with zoom retaining enough context to identify the application and tool.
- Real cursor movement with visible highlighting or click indicators is captured; the selected tool, its effect, complete dialogs and the resulting output are all shown.
- The exact command, menu path or tool name is shown as it appears in the software, with useful keyboard shortcuts alongside it and alternative locations explained for other versions.
- Numbered on-screen steps and callouts point at the real controls being used; no menu, tool or command is invented.
- Until an authentic recording exists the lesson reads: “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.”
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Lesson 4 · Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.
Building comparable yield scenarios
- Learning objective
- Varying height, coverage and mix systematically so scenarios can be compared, and holding constant everything that is not being tested.
- Narration focus
- Produce comparable quantum options that survive servicing reality.
- Screen action
- Produce three scenarios with full schedules of accommodation and a single comparison table.
- Required software
- QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool
- Example data
- Synthetic parking demand ranges, servicing vehicle requirements and mix teaching data.
- Expected learner output
- Only the tested variables change between scenarios.
- Suggested length
- About 8 minutes (planning estimate)
- Captions and transcript
- Required before professional review
- Narration
- Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
- 1.Varying height, coverage and mix systematically so scenarios can be compared, and holding constant everything that is not being tested.
- 2.Produce three scenarios with full schedules of accommodation and a single comparison table.
- 3.Only the tested variables change between scenarios.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- Capture is a genuine screen recording from the real application — no mockup, simulated interface, AI-generated screen or unverified screenshot.
- The exact software name, version and, where relevant, operating system are read from the recorded session and stated on screen.
- Menus, panels, toolbars, layer controls and the command line or log are visible and legible; the view zooms in wherever text, settings or coordinates would be hard to read.
- The full application interface is shown at the beginning; menus, tools and panels stay visible throughout and the interface context is never cropped away, with zoom retaining enough context to identify the application and tool.
- Real cursor movement with visible highlighting or click indicators is captured; the selected tool, its effect, complete dialogs and the resulting output are all shown.
- The exact command, menu path or tool name is shown as it appears in the software, with useful keyboard shortcuts alongside it and alternative locations explained for other versions.
- Numbered on-screen steps and callouts point at the real controls being used; no menu, tool or command is invented.
- Until an authentic recording exists the lesson reads: “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.”
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Lesson 5 · Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.
Parking strategies and their spatial cost
- Learning objective
- Surface, undercroft, podium and basement options; how each consumes land, value and ground-floor quality; and how a lower parking ratio must be justified by accessibility evidence rather than by preference.
- Narration focus
- Produce comparable quantum options that survive servicing reality.
- Screen action
- Test two parking strategies against each scenario and quantify the land and frontage cost of each.
- Required software
- QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool
- Example data
- Synthetic parking demand ranges, servicing vehicle requirements and mix teaching data.
- Expected learner output
- Every parking strategy shows its effect on active frontage length.
- Suggested length
- About 10 minutes (planning estimate)
- Captions and transcript
- Required before professional review
- Narration
- Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
- 1.Surface, undercroft, podium and basement options; how each consumes land, value and ground-floor quality; and how a lower parking ratio must be justified by accessibility evidence rather than by preference.
- 2.Test two parking strategies against each scenario and quantify the land and frontage cost of each.
- 3.Every parking strategy shows its effect on active frontage length.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- Capture is a genuine screen recording from the real application — no mockup, simulated interface, AI-generated screen or unverified screenshot.
- The exact software name, version and, where relevant, operating system are read from the recorded session and stated on screen.
- Menus, panels, toolbars, layer controls and the command line or log are visible and legible; the view zooms in wherever text, settings or coordinates would be hard to read.
- The full application interface is shown at the beginning; menus, tools and panels stay visible throughout and the interface context is never cropped away, with zoom retaining enough context to identify the application and tool.
- Real cursor movement with visible highlighting or click indicators is captured; the selected tool, its effect, complete dialogs and the resulting output are all shown.
- The exact command, menu path or tool name is shown as it appears in the software, with useful keyboard shortcuts alongside it and alternative locations explained for other versions.
- Numbered on-screen steps and callouts point at the real controls being used; no menu, tool or command is invented.
- Until an authentic recording exists the lesson reads: “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.”
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Lesson 6 · Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.
Servicing, refuse and deliveries without dead frontage
- Learning objective
- Consolidating servicing points, tracking a servicing vehicle to every block, refuse storage and drag distances, and keeping service doors off primary public frontage.
- Narration focus
- Produce comparable quantum options that survive servicing reality.
- Screen action
- Produce a servicing plan showing a tracked route to every block and marked refuse positions.
- Required software
- QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool
- Example data
- Synthetic parking demand ranges, servicing vehicle requirements and mix teaching data.
- Expected learner output
- Every block is serviceable and no primary frontage is given over to servicing.
- Suggested length
- About 12 minutes (planning estimate)
- Captions and transcript
- Required before professional review
- Narration
- Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
- 1.Consolidating servicing points, tracking a servicing vehicle to every block, refuse storage and drag distances, and keeping service doors off primary public frontage.
- 2.Produce a servicing plan showing a tracked route to every block and marked refuse positions.
- 3.Every block is serviceable and no primary frontage is given over to servicing.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- Capture is a genuine screen recording from the real application — no mockup, simulated interface, AI-generated screen or unverified screenshot.
- The exact software name, version and, where relevant, operating system are read from the recorded session and stated on screen.
- Menus, panels, toolbars, layer controls and the command line or log are visible and legible; the view zooms in wherever text, settings or coordinates would be hard to read.
- The full application interface is shown at the beginning; menus, tools and panels stay visible throughout and the interface context is never cropped away, with zoom retaining enough context to identify the application and tool.
- Real cursor movement with visible highlighting or click indicators is captured; the selected tool, its effect, complete dialogs and the resulting output are all shown.
- The exact command, menu path or tool name is shown as it appears in the software, with useful keyboard shortcuts alongside it and alternative locations explained for other versions.
- Numbered on-screen steps and callouts point at the real controls being used; no menu, tool or command is invented.
- Until an authentic recording exists the lesson reads: “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.”
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Lesson 7 · Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.
Stating trade-offs and selecting a preferred quantum
- Learning objective
- Comparing scenarios on quantum, quality, servicing, open space and deliverability; writing trade-offs as explicit statements so the client chooses with full information.
- Narration focus
- Choose a scheme with reasons and phase it so it can actually be built.
- Screen action
- Write a trade-off statement per scenario and recommend a preferred quantum with reasons.
- Required software
- QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool
- Example data
- Synthetic delivery programme constraints and an Ideeplan-owned yield report structure.
- Expected learner output
- The recommendation names what is being given up, not only what is gained.
- Suggested length
- About 8 minutes (planning estimate)
- Captions and transcript
- Required before professional review
- Narration
- Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
- 1.Comparing scenarios on quantum, quality, servicing, open space and deliverability; writing trade-offs as explicit statements so the client chooses with full information.
- 2.Write a trade-off statement per scenario and recommend a preferred quantum with reasons.
- 3.The recommendation names what is being given up, not only what is gained.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- Capture is a genuine screen recording from the real application — no mockup, simulated interface, AI-generated screen or unverified screenshot.
- The exact software name, version and, where relevant, operating system are read from the recorded session and stated on screen.
- Menus, panels, toolbars, layer controls and the command line or log are visible and legible; the view zooms in wherever text, settings or coordinates would be hard to read.
- The full application interface is shown at the beginning; menus, tools and panels stay visible throughout and the interface context is never cropped away, with zoom retaining enough context to identify the application and tool.
- Real cursor movement with visible highlighting or click indicators is captured; the selected tool, its effect, complete dialogs and the resulting output are all shown.
- The exact command, menu path or tool name is shown as it appears in the software, with useful keyboard shortcuts alongside it and alternative locations explained for other versions.
- Numbered on-screen steps and callouts point at the real controls being used; no menu, tool or command is invented.
- Until an authentic recording exists the lesson reads: “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.”
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Lesson 8 · Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.
Phasing so every phase is a complete place
- Learning objective
- Phase boundaries that produce finished edges, delivering open space and route connections early rather than last, interim conditions on undeveloped land, and keeping later phases unprejudiced.
- Narration focus
- Choose a scheme with reasons and phase it so it can actually be built.
- Screen action
- Produce a four-phase plan showing the completed public realm and edge condition at the end of each phase.
- Required software
- QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool
- Example data
- Synthetic delivery programme constraints and an Ideeplan-owned yield report structure.
- Expected learner output
- Each phase ends as a usable place with no unresolved temporary edge onto a public route.
- Suggested length
- About 10 minutes (planning estimate)
- Captions and transcript
- Required before professional review
- Narration
- Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
- 1.Phase boundaries that produce finished edges, delivering open space and route connections early rather than last, interim conditions on undeveloped land, and keeping later phases unprejudiced.
- 2.Produce a four-phase plan showing the completed public realm and edge condition at the end of each phase.
- 3.Each phase ends as a usable place with no unresolved temporary edge onto a public route.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- Capture is a genuine screen recording from the real application — no mockup, simulated interface, AI-generated screen or unverified screenshot.
- The exact software name, version and, where relevant, operating system are read from the recorded session and stated on screen.
- Menus, panels, toolbars, layer controls and the command line or log are visible and legible; the view zooms in wherever text, settings or coordinates would be hard to read.
- The full application interface is shown at the beginning; menus, tools and panels stay visible throughout and the interface context is never cropped away, with zoom retaining enough context to identify the application and tool.
- Real cursor movement with visible highlighting or click indicators is captured; the selected tool, its effect, complete dialogs and the resulting output are all shown.
- The exact command, menu path or tool name is shown as it appears in the software, with useful keyboard shortcuts alongside it and alternative locations explained for other versions.
- Numbered on-screen steps and callouts point at the real controls being used; no menu, tool or command is invented.
- Until an authentic recording exists the lesson reads: “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.”
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Lesson 9 · Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.
Assembling the yield testing report
- Learning objective
- Reporting method, assumptions, scenarios, servicing, trade-offs, preferred strategy and phasing, with every figure marked indicative and every standard flagged for local confirmation.
- Narration focus
- Choose a scheme with reasons and phase it so it can actually be built.
- Screen action
- Assemble the full report and run an arithmetic reconciliation across all schedules.
- Required software
- QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool
- Example data
- Synthetic delivery programme constraints and an Ideeplan-owned yield report structure.
- Expected learner output
- Every schedule in the report reconciles with the land budget.
- Suggested length
- About 12 minutes (planning estimate)
- Captions and transcript
- Required before professional review
- Narration
- Professional narration — not yet produced
Demonstration sequence
- 1.Reporting method, assumptions, scenarios, servicing, trade-offs, preferred strategy and phasing, with every figure marked indicative and every standard flagged for local confirmation.
- 2.Assemble the full report and run an arithmetic reconciliation across all schedules.
- 3.Every schedule in the report reconciles with the land budget.
Quality review checklist
- Technical content (map, drawing, model or document) fills the majority of the frame and stays legible at 720p.
- Presenter picture-in-picture, if used, stays at roughly 8–10% of the frame, never covers legends, dimensions, labels or annotations, and is hidden on mobile widths and dense technical screens.
- Software shown is limited to QGIS, AutoCAD, Spreadsheet software, SketchUp or equivalent massing tool, with no suggestion of provider endorsement.
- Capture is a genuine screen recording from the real application — no mockup, simulated interface, AI-generated screen or unverified screenshot.
- The exact software name, version and, where relevant, operating system are read from the recorded session and stated on screen.
- Menus, panels, toolbars, layer controls and the command line or log are visible and legible; the view zooms in wherever text, settings or coordinates would be hard to read.
- The full application interface is shown at the beginning; menus, tools and panels stay visible throughout and the interface context is never cropped away, with zoom retaining enough context to identify the application and tool.
- Real cursor movement with visible highlighting or click indicators is captured; the selected tool, its effect, complete dialogs and the resulting output are all shown.
- The exact command, menu path or tool name is shown as it appears in the software, with useful keyboard shortcuts alongside it and alternative locations explained for other versions.
- Numbered on-screen steps and callouts point at the real controls being used; no menu, tool or command is invented.
- Until an authentic recording exists the lesson reads: “Video lesson: Not recorded — authentic professional recording required.”
- All data on screen is synthetic, publicly licensed or Ideeplan-owned, and is labelled as demonstration data.
- Narration states that methods are jurisdiction-neutral and that local laws, policies and standards must be confirmed.
- Captions and a transcript are produced before the recording can move to professional review.
- No client name, confidential file or private project information appears on screen at any point.
Course production standard
- Recordings are screen-first: the planning drawing, GIS view, AutoCAD or Revit workspace stays the main subject of the frame.
- Any presenter picture-in-picture normally occupies no more than about 8–10% of the frame and never covers maps, legends, drawings, dimensions or annotations.
- On mobile and on dense technical screens the presenter window is reduced further or hidden entirely.
- The Principal Consultant portrait is reserved for approved introductions, explanations and conclusions. It is not used as a generic thumbnail for every course.
- Narration is planned for professional human delivery. No AI narration, AI presenter or recorded lesson exists today.
No lesson has been recorded. Every lesson media status is “Not recorded”.
Any example data used in teaching is synthetic, publicly licensed or owned by Ideeplan Consult, and is clearly labelled as demonstration data. No client file, confidential document or unauthorised project material is used.
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