Rayon for universities
Rayon's Academic plan for schools, universities, and academic institutions.
Rayon is the best online CAD software, enabling faculty and students to teach and learn architecture/interior design in a modern, collaborative platform. Rayon is free for the academic world, and offers a student plan for individuals (students, faculty, instructors) and an academia plan for institutions, to offer more control, security and university-level features.
What is Rayon?
Rayon is an online, collaborative software for architects, interior designers, etc allowing users to draft, stylise and present their work. It is a one-stop-solution to create complete drawing sets. More importantly, Rayon is a professional CAD tool, that offers the full depth that is typical to well known drawing software in the AEC. Rayon is an ideal platform for teaching and learning architecture and interior design, and is adopted by 150k+ student around the world.
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Why set up Rayon for your university?
Our hope by opening the software for free to faculty and instructors is to finally offer a collaborative CAD environment that provides architecture and interior architecture/design curriculums the means teach with a modern tool set.
For students — Rayon provides students with hands-on experience in a modern, professional CAD design tool. Rayon blends together the full spectrum of important software features (drafting, stylising, layout), and is compatible with exiting legacy software (AutoCAD/Rhino etc through DWG import/export, and SketchUp using Rayon's dedicated plugin)
For faculty — Rayon empowers faculty with a collaborative software, where they can easily to manage class projects, set up CAD class material, receive students submission and provide feedbacks, all in one place.
For universities — Rayon is the ideal offering to help university support their community, with minimum setup and maintenance cost. Rayon helps...
Simplify software setup with a browser-based platform accessible from any device, with no install.
Encourage teamwork and peer learning through shared workspaces.
Ensure secure oversight with full admin rights for institutional IT or academic staff.
Academia plan key features
The Academia Plan provides academic institutions with the same benefits as Rayon's Team Plan, to support teaching and research. It allows faculty to create shared workspaces, run classes, and collaborate with students in real time — all within a browser-based platform that requires no installation.
Among other things, the academia plan encompasses....
Full Team Plan Universities and schools receive a full Team plan. Students are added to shared workspaces where they can collaborate, learn, and build projects together.
Faculty Accounts Professors and teaching staff can run classes, organize projects, and guide students in a multiplayer drafting environment.
Full Admin Access University administrators have complete control over the institution’s account, including user management, permissions, and workspace organization.
Teaching-Ready Platform Designed for design studios, architecture courses, and other project-based classes, Rayon supports collaborative drafting, feedback, and presentation. Faculty can publish templates and give students access to tailored made resources.
How to Apply
The Academia Plan is available to universities, colleges and academic institutions. To apply...
Faculty and university admins can contact our support team by filing this form.
Our team onboards them in a 15-minute call, and set up free credentials for their institution.
Enrolled students and faculty get free team-level access to all of Rayon's feature set.
We're always available!
Book a demo with our team, right here. Feel free to email us at [email protected].
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