I am wondering if anyone has experience embedding Survey123 questions into their educational Story Maps. And if so, does anyone know if Survey 123 files can be edited, once they are made public? I have been getting repeated errors when trying to publish updates to these questions. I cannot find a solution other than potentially copying the survey and recreating / re-embedding.  ... View more

Hi All how i can create facebook and other social media share button on new story map  ? ... View more

I have a free Storymaps.ArcGIS account and am using the tool to build a library exhibit online for an academic institution. Is there a way to share editing capabilities with my team, or will we each need to sign into one account individually? Thanks for the help! ... View more

I'm wanting to use a story map as a website for public outreach and engagement with the design and implementation of a small city's general plan. Ideally, the platform would have both static, informational media content as well as a base map, or a series of base maps, that are editable by the general public. The main idea behind using a story map as a platform is to visualize data that is pertinent to the general plan and the community in general, for instance more isolated residential and commercial areas with potential to be connected by bike/ped trails, proposed zoning for future development/preservation, etc., and interface that data with the input of the community, i.e. questions that arise, most valued locations or most desirable connections, perceptions of neighborhood diversity, and most likely complaints. I'm sure that there are great examples of this type of story map platform, but if anybody could point me in the direction of such examples I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you! ... View more

I created this story map that takes advantage of the new map actions capabilities to illustrate the educational possibilities of map actions. Map actions allow for something to happen as the user interacts with your story map.  In this case, the user is guided through a series of landforms in a geomorphology investigation, but I encourage you to consider other themes and topics, and the maps and images that could support those topics, that you are seeking to teach with using these same techniques.  In the story map, I provide the 2D map and 3D scene that supports the landforms investigation and quiz for further exploration, as well as a link to guidelines for creating the map actions.   I chose geomorphology for this example for several key reasons:  First, geomorphology touches on human-environment interaction and can be used to effectively teach about change over time, how the landscape influences humans (settlement patterns, land use) and how humans influence landscapes (direct and indirect modification).  Those of you who have known me for years probably remember when I worked at USGS, I used to carry around an enormous roll of 100 paper topographic maps held together by some massive rubber bands to teach these same concepts.  Second, using these digital USGS topographic maps (one of the basemaps that you can access in ArcGIS Online) in a story map is much more versatile (and lighter to "carry"!) than being tied to those paper maps.  In addition, students and faculty can change their scale, add data to them (such as land cover, precipitation patterns, population density, and more), and perform analysis on them (such as create watersheds, trace downstream, and calculate viewshed).     Story map with map action on an educational theme (geomorphology).  A section of the story map referenced above using map actions.  The scale and location change, in this story map, when the map user clicks on the boxes above or elsewhere in the map, strings of text. I look forward to your comments below! ... View more