Arcgis Online & Arcgis Pro E-Learning Courses

ArcGIS Online & ArcGIS Pro E-Learning Courses

Overview This guide is an aid for those who want to use authoritative Esri web-based learning resources.

Full descriptions can be found at the links provided. All items listed are web courses unless noted otherwise. The complete Esri catalog can be found at www.esri.com/coursecatalog. The information provided in this guide is subject to change without notice. Please contact Tosca Hoffmann at [email protected] or 303.449.7779 x 1-8242 with questions about the courses.

You and your staff have unlimited access to the entire collection of self-paced e-Learning (web courses, training seminars, and more) if your organization has a qualifying product with a current maintenance subscription. To determine if this applies to you, contact your Esri software license administrator, check online, or email [email protected].

A learning plan is a set of learning resources with a suggested order. You can create your own plan or copy and edit one you find. You can assign your plan to students or colleagues and track their progress. See the site Help (Category: Learning Plans) for more information.

ArcGIS® Foundation The following e-Learning offerings cover foundational skills and concepts about ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Desktop, and GIS in general. (Courses that present workflows that combine ArcGIS Pro or ArcMap and ArcGIS Online are listed in the ArcGIS Pro or ArcMap section.)

Two documents are recommended for all students who are studying GIS: The Language of Spatial Analytics and ArcGIS Common Patterns of Use.

ArcGIS Online The following courses introduce GIS and ArcGIS Online to new users. All courses in this section exclusively use ArcGIS Online. • Exploring GIS Maps: Introduces online maps as models of the world. • Getting Information from a GIS Map: Introduces GIS data concepts and geographic inquiry. • Using GIS to Solve Problems: Introduces visual and geospatial analysis. • Telling Stories with GIS Maps: Introduces map-based storytelling and the workflow for configuring a web app. • Going Places with Spatial Analysis (MOOC; starting September 4th, 6 weeks): Provides a deeper understanding of spatial data analysis.

The following resources develop a foundation of ArcGIS Online skills through project scenarios and lessons. They use a dedicated ArcGIS Online organizational account. • Get Started with ArcGIS Online (Tutorial): Builds foundational skills through a series of three lessons about a hurricane in Houston, Texas. • Get Started with Map Viewer (Tutorial): Builds foundational skills through a series of five lessons about volcanoes and the risk of lava flow on the island of Hawaii. • Getting Started with Spatial Analysis: Explores how six categories of spatial analysis can help you answer geographic questions.

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ArcGIS Pro The following web courses introduce fundamental concepts and workflows for the ArcGIS Pro application. • Getting Started with ArcGIS Pro: Introduces the ribbon-style interface, project-based organization, and key capabilities of ArcGIS Pro. • Displaying Data in ArcGIS Pro: Introduces ArcGIS Pro tools for symbology. • 3D Visualization Using ArcGIS Pro: Introduces the ArcGIS Pro 3D environment and explains how to create and share realistic 3D scenes. • Querying Data Using ArcGIS Pro: Teaches the building blocks of query expression and how to select features that meet one or more attribute criteria. • Managing Map Layers in ArcGIS Pro: Introduces basic layer property settings. • Getting Started with the Geodatabase: Introduces geodatabase components and presents techniques for efficiently organizing and adding both vector and raster data to a geodatabase. • Integrating Data in ArcGIS Pro: Teaches GIS data concepts and how to add data to a geodatabase. • Basics of Geographic Coordinate Systems: Teaches fundamental concepts of geographic coordinate systems. • Getting Started with Spatial Analysis: Introduces the six categories of spatial analysis that can help you answer geographic questions. • Getting Started with Geoprocessing: Presents key concepts and geoprocessing techniques used for analysis, including setting the geoprocessing environment. • Automating Workflows Using ArcGIS Pro Tasks: Teaches how to create and share ArcGIS Pro tasks to increase productivity. • Sharing Maps and Layers with ArcGIS Pro: Teaches best practices for sharing projects, maps, layers, tools, and other items using a portal, such as ArcGIS Online, so that they can be used with mobile devices and web and desktop applications. • Python for Everyone: Introduces basic Python concepts and the Python scripting environment in ArcGIS.

Mapping & Visualization The following resources provide options for extending learning about mapping and visualization

Across the platform • How to Smart Map: Arcade (Story Map): Introduces Arcade expressions and how to use them to quickly do basic field calculations, convert field types, and more. • Make Your Own Smart Maps (Learning Plan): Shows how smart-mapping tools work and how to apply them to enhance your mapping projects

ArcGIS Online • Creating Web Applications Using Templates and Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS: Teaches how to create interactive, cross-platform web apps that feature maps and geospatial content. • Tell the Story of Irish Public History (Tutorial): Shows how to use historical data to create a story map app. • Do-It-Yourself Geo Apps (MOOC; Starting October 30th, 4 weeks): Shows how to build valuable, geoenabled apps on the ArcGIS platform without programming.

ArcGIS Pro • Cartographic Creations in ArcGIS Pro (Tutorial): Teaches how to create a print-ready map in ArcGIS Pro. • Labeling Features Using ArcGIS Pro: Shows how to adjust Maplex Label Engine settings to increase a map’s usability.

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• Creating and Sharing Animation in ArcGIS Pro: Shows how to animate and produce ready-to share videos of your work. • Creating Vector Tiles in ArcGIS Pro: Explains why and how to create vector tiles for fast and compelling web apps. • Cartography. (MOOC; TBD, 6 weeks): Experienced cartographers teach their craft, including cartographic design, messaging, and ArcGIS skills. • web app.

Spatial Analytics The following courses provide options for extending learning about GIS analysis and modeling.

Conceptual (No software required) • Introduction to Suitability Modeling: Introduces the suitability modeling workflow and its applications to real-world problems. Explains how to define effective goals and criteria for suitability models.

ArcGIS Online • The Location Advantage (MOOC; TBD, 6 weeks): Explores how location analytics can be used in business. Uses ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Business Analyst™ Online. • Insights for ArcGIS: Powerful Data Analytics Made Simple (Training Seminar): Demos how to connect to data sources, perform statistical and spatial analysis, and create interactive reports and repeatable analysis models. • Get Started with Insights for ArcGIS (Tutorial) Explores how to find spatial and temporal trends in data.

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ArcGIS Pro • Distance Analysis Using ArcGIS Pro: Teaches how to create raster surfaces for distance and path analysis. • Calculating Density Using ArcGIS: Teaches how to create density surfaces to reveal concentrations of point or line features. Uses a business scenario. • Terrain Analysis Using ArcGIS Pro: Uses ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Spatial Analyst tools to derive new raster data from an elevation raster for various applications. • Performing Viewshed Analysis in ArcGIS Pro: Introduces the Viewshed tool and how to adjust the tool for an analysis. • Creating Optimized Routes Using ArcGIS Pro: Uses ArcGIS Network Analyst and a network dataset to create routes that incorporate distance, time, stops, and barriers. • Generating Service Areas Using ArcGIS Pro: Uses ArcGIS Network Analyst and existing network data to create areas within a certain distance or travel time of a facility. • Finding the Closest Facilities Using ArcGIS Pro: Uses ArcGIS Network Analyst to find the most efficient routes between incidents and facilities. • Creating an Origin-Destination Cost Matrix in ArcGIS Pro: Uses ArcGIS Network Analyst to create a cost matrix based on quickest travel times or shortest distances along a transportation network. • Finding the Optimal Location of Facilities Using ArcGIS Pro: Uses ArcGIS Network Analyst to show how to perform location-allocation analysis. • Introduction to Regression Analysis Using ArcGIS Pro: Introduces regression analysis concepts and teaches how to create a properly specified regression model. • Building Geoprocessing Models Using ArcGIS Pro: Introduces geoprocessing models and the steps required to create, validate, and run models that automate ArcGIS analysis workflows. • Using the R–ArcGIS Bridge: Shows how to load spatial data into an R workspace to perform statistical analysis using the R–ArcGIS bridge. • Integrating R Scripts into ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tools: Teaches how to apply a workflow to create a geoprocessing script tool that uses the capabilities of R. • Working with NetCDF Data in ArcGIS Pro: Teaches how to incorporate NetCDF format scientific data and models into common GIS workflows. • Predict Seagrass Habitats with Machine Learning (Tutorial): Uses ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst and ArcGIS Spatial Analyst.

Data Collection & Management The following offerings supplement the courses listed in the fundamentals section. They teach about collecting, creating, editing, or managing GIS data.

ArcGIS Online • Survey123 for ArcGIS: Author a Survey on the Web: Teaches how to create, share, and analyze surveys on the web. Covers design best practices and how to deploy surveys on a mobile device. • Get Started with Survey123 for ArcGIS (Tutorial): Teaches how to create a Survey123 form, analyze data, and share survey results with other ArcGIS platform client apps.

ArcGIS Pro • Editing Basics in ArcGIS Pro: Shows how to create and modify features and attributes. • Editing 3D Features Using ArcGIS Pro: Presents basic 3D editing concepts, and teaches how to create new features in 2D and then immediately visualize the features in a linked 3D scene. • ArcGIS Pro Editing Essentials: (Training Seminar): Covers the editing environment and interface and key options. Discusses settings for accuracy and efficiency and how to streamline workflows. • Creating Vector Tiles in ArcGIS Pro: Teaches why and how to create and share fast vector tiles for use in your web apps.

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Imagery & Remote Sensing The following e-Learning courses cover key skills and concepts for working with imagery in ArcGIS.

Conceptual (No software required) • Introduction to Image Classification: Introduces options for creating thematic classified rasters in ArcGIS.

ArcGIS Pro • Earth Imagery at Work (MOOC; April 10–May 22, 2019, 6 weeks): Provides hands-on experience with authentic imagery analysis and information products to support decisions. • Displaying Raster Data in ArcGIS: Covers techniques to display, symbolize, and enhance the appearance of rasters in ArcGIS Pro. • Managing Raster Data Using ArcGIS: Teaches how to organize raster data within a mosaic dataset in preparation for visualization and analysis. • Processing Raster Data Using ArcGIS Pro: Teaches efficient ways to process raster data and extract information products on-the-fly using raster functions in ArcGIS Pro. • Change Detection Using Imagery: Covers improving the appearance of imagery, NDVI and NBR analysis, and digitizing features to quantify areas of change. • Creating Python Scripts for Raster Analysis: Discusses creating a raster object, accessing its properties, and using them in your Python scripting.

Drone2Map® for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Online The following e-Learning courses cover key skills and concepts for working with Drone2Map for ArcGIS and drone-captured imagery.

• Getting Started with Drone2Map for ArcGIS: Covers how to capture, import, and validate Drone2Map for ArcGIS drone imagery for geospatial needs. • Creating 2D Products Using Drone2Map for ArcGIS: Teaches how to create orthomosaics and digital surface models from drone-captured still imagery. • Creating 3D Products Using Drone2Map for ArcGIS: Teaches how to create 3D point clouds, 3D texture meshes, and 3D PDFs from drone-captured still imagery. • Inspect Assets Using Drone2Map for ArcGIS: Shows how to use the Drone2Map for ArcGIS Inspection template to organize the drone flight path, photos, and inspection notes.

Design & Planning The following courses teach how to apply a data-driven process to manage a community’s natural assets using GeoPlannerSM and Green Infrastructure apps. Together with a document and a story map, these courses compose the Build a Green Infrastructure Strategy Learning Plan. • Introduction to Green Infrastructure: Presents workflows for strategically planning and managing open-space assets. • Building the Foundation for Green Infrastructure Planning: Teaches how to select and weight criteria based on project goals, and adjust criterion filters to refine the selection. • GeoPlanner for ArcGIS: Exploring the Green Infrastructure in Your Study Area: Introduces using GeoPlanner to consider green infrastructure in a design. • GeoPlanner for ArcGIS: Designing with Real-Time Feedback: Teaches how to evaluate how well a design meets project requirements using GeoPlanner. • GeoPlanner for ArcGIS: Evaluating Plans: Teaches how to compare scenarios in GeoPlanner and share designs with stakeholders.

Administration

ArcGIS Online • ArcGIS Online: Administration Basics: Learn the basic steps and best practices for administering ArcGIS Online in your organization. • Preparing to Implement ArcGIS Online This course presents a three-step planning process to align your ArcGIS Online organizational site with your business needs and key workflows. • Performing ArcGIS Online Administrator Tasks: This course offers ideas and techniques to administrators to efficiently manage their sites as changes occur so that ongoing business needs are met. • Configuring and Administering an ArcGIS Online Ogranization: This course introduces ArcGIS Online administrators to site configuration, home page branding, user and content management, and security options. • ArcGIS Online Implementation Guide: Learn essential tasks and best practices for setting up ArcGIS Online.

ArcGIS Pro • Getting Started with ArcGIS Pro: A Quick Start Guide to Downloading, Installing, and Licensing ArcGIS Pro: This guide provides easy-to-follow instructions for setting up ArcGIS Pro with any licensing method: Named User, Single Use, or Concurrent Use • ArcGIS Pro Implementation Guide: Learn essential tasks for getting your organization started with ArcGIS Pro. • ArcGIS Pro Terminology Guide: A short guide to help you become familiar with ArcGIS Pro.

Notes

• We recommend that you watch the Going Pro: ArcGIS Pro Essentials for ArcMap Users training seminar if you are an experienced ArcMap user preparing to teach ArcGIS Pro.

• You can view lists of new training, training pending retirement, and retired training on the New and Retired Training Options page. You will receive a message when retirements are announced (click View Messages when signed in to Training).