For thirty years, Esri Academy has been a favorite destination for top-notch GIS learning resources. Housing hundreds of training options that are envisioned, created, and delivered by experts, the website supports students and professionals who want to grow skills that support immediate project needs while advancing career aspirations.
Born of ColdFusion Markup Language, the website has evolved significantly since its 1997 christening. The newest version—launching August 15—uses the latest web technologies, accessibility best practices, and visual design principles.
The redesign goal was straightforward: make it even easier to find, share, start, and complete GIS training that boosts productivity and expands geospatial horizons.
A strong effort was made to collect, analyze, and activate user feedback. We’re grateful to all who shared their time and experience-based recommendations. The new website is more responsive, tailored to common patterns of use, and sets the stage for future enhancements. It’s also pretty.
Here are some changes to know about:
Existing Bookmarks: The main website URL has slightly changed to https://www.esri.com/en-us/training, and extensive testing shows that current site bookmarks will redirect correctly. Given the high number of Esri Academy visitors, it’s possible that some may experience bookmark issues. If so, we apologize for the inconvenience.
Training Catalog: The new catalog design is quite different, in the best way. If you have used the current site’s Save Search tool to create links for a set of filtered catalog search results, those links will need to be recreated.
The good news is that, in the new catalog, search parameters will display in the page URL. From your browser’s address bar, you can easily copy the URL to share a set of filtered training options.
Learning Plans: You can continue to create, assign, and share tailored learning plans directly from the catalog; however, the community learning plan space has been discontinued.
What is not changing:
The catalog includes hundreds of options spanning multiple learning formats with time commitments ranging from minutes to days to weeks, with new options added weekly.
You can explore anonymously to your heart’s content, but you’ll need to sign in with your ArcGIS public or organizational account to enroll in, bookmark, or assign training.
All individuals and organizations with a current Esri software maintenance subscription enjoy unlimited e-learning access.
You’re invited to stop by on August 15 (and every day after) and help us welcome in Esri Academy 2026. It will be sporting a new look, but the mission remains the same—it is, and always will be, your trusted destination for lifelong GIS learning.
