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T3G2017 AGO Topic: Collaboration

CharlieFitzpatrick — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 06:19:47 GMT

In T3G2017, as part of homework AFTER Day 1 (April22) and BEFORE Day2 (by Thu April27), we want participants to look at information on GeoNet and post a question, offer an answer, or give an observation about working in ArcGIS Online Organization accounts. The four themes from which to choose and contribute at least one entry are

Technical: start up, generating logins, setting roles and privileges
Content/sharing: Getting users generating and sharing content
Collaboration: Creating, using, and managing groups effectively
Management: Organization operations, especially maintenance at end of marking period, semester, or year.

THIS THREAD IS ABOUT COLLABORATION ASPECTS. (REPLY BELOW)

Re: T3G2017 AGO Topic: Collaboration

KatieRemine — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:25:21 GMT

If my ArcGIS Org is a nonprofit (not education) org and we can only have 2 "named users" can we still invite other users (view only)?? (Is there a difference between "named users" and invited member users?

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__invited__richardbschultz720 — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:26:55 GMT

Is there a limit to how many groups can be created in any one organization?

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MelissaGarner1 — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:28:50 GMT

Anyone have best practices about organizing a state roll out? We don't have many people in so far and would love for this to be organized efficiently from the start.

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JaniceElvidge — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:28:58 GMT

What if I am working in one org (The National Park Service) and those that are part of my project are teachers that 1) don't have an org account yet or 2) wont have access to any org account because they are in an organization that will never be able to purchase an org account, and we are all working on one project with is hosted by the NPS is there a way to create a "group" for AGOL that includes all of them?

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NatalieMarioni1 — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:47:36 GMT

Oh, I'm curious about this, too.

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EllenFoster — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:02:47 GMT

We worked with the Park Service on a project three years ago. I was able to add our NPS contacts to the group within our university org. I don't know if that would be different in a K-12 org, or not.

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HarrisPayne — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:36:56 GMT

Sarah Bednar did an interesting webinar for LA public schools about the C3 Framework and geography. The C3 uses inquiry as a method to teach as well as tools to gather information and have students take civic action. I think it is a great fit for GIS. Here is the URL

The C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards: Implications for Geography Education > LACOE

Re: T3G2017 AGO Topic: Collaboration

RebeccaLilja1 — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:14:13 GMT

NH has done a state roll out. We have a NHEDGIS (NH Edicational GIS Partnership - www.nhedgis.org) org account for training and to get teachers set up and practicing (similar to the T3G org). We also use the State org to host state specific lessons and state content that teachers can grab and use. All of our T3G trained teachers/facilitators are administrators in the org and can use it for training they host.

Once teachers go through a GIS 101 type training, they are encouraged to apply for their own school account. We also have a one day "Set up your org" training to help them get their school org set up how then want it. Ina Ahern Do you have more to share, since you set up our NH Org?

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RebeccaLilja1 — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:14:34 GMT

Does anyone have some best practices for collaboration on a single map or app? We have been using collaboration groups outlined in this blog post with varying success - Enable colleagues to update your maps and apps | ArcGIS Blog. This would be a great topic to cover in #T3G2017.

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InaAhern — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:39:56 GMT

I think you hit the highlights. Any teacher who attends a one day or longer training gets a user account (publisher level) in the NHEdGIS organization. They can then use these as they take further trainings or to practice on their own. We also have generic accounts that can be used for shorter trainings such as those offered at teacher association meetings.

As far as assisting teachers with setting up their own organizations, we encourage them to take the one day training. If they can't, or if they did at some time in the past and are setting up a new organization at a different school, I volunteer to be on the phone with them when they set it up to help them make decisions. We also strongly encourage them to add either me or another one of our NHEdGIS key people as an administrator in their organization so we can help troubleshoot or regain access to the organization if the people who originally set it up leave the school.

Although this relates more to helping schools set up their own organizations then to the statewide organization, one of the things that is a little strange is that you have to create the first administrator account before you create the organization. (Warn them not to join their personal account or their other organization accounts to the new organization.) Since the standard naming conventions appends the organization short name following an underscore for each user, it makes sense that the first administrator account also follows that pattern, yet it's not until the next step that you find out whether the short name you've selected is available. rlilja figured out the solution to that problem. In a tab of a web browser type: http://shortname.maps.arcgis.com where "short name" is replaced with your desired short name. If this ends up taking you to either the homepage of an organization, or a sign in page, you know the desired short name is not available and you can try again. Once you've found an appropriate and available short name you can then create the administrator account following the same standard pattern as ArcGIS Online will use for the other accounts in the org.

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AmyWork — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:24:28 GMT

I think they should all be able to create Developer accounts and then you can invite their Developer account username to the group. The Developer account acts as a one-person organization.

Try adding your personal Developer account to a group that you have created in the NPS org.

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AlLewandowski1 — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 06:40:45 GMT

This is very interesting, Rebecca. I'm in Michigan where we have a state licence but not a state AGOO. I am currently working on the GRACE project, which is an NSF project that provides both professional development in GIS for teachers as well as a paid intern program for high school students. We have a project AGOO. We also have a modular online GIS professional development course on the Michigan Virtual University website.

Is it possible for me to view your state AGOO?

You can visit the GRACE project AGOO at:

http://nsfgrace.maps.arcgis.com/home/organization.html

You can learn more about the GRACE project at:

Http://NSFgrace.net

I'd also like to know more about the content of your GIS 101 course for teachers.

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AllisonHoff — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:22:48 GMT

Yes an administrator in an AGOO can invite community members to the AGOO. One way to do it would be to have

They create a free public AGO account
They go to their profile and select to make it visible to everyone (public) make their profile public under their profile
you go to or create a group for them to join in your AGOO
under groups you click on invite users
uncheck the box to Only search for members in The GRACE Project Organization.
search for their name or username. Here is what it looks when I searched for my username:
The invitee will get an email with instructions to join the group

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TamaNunnelley — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 04:00:12 GMT

This is what we have done with our state geography alliance org. We only have 2 named users but we have created other accounts inside the org. We have done this for students in a dual enrollment class as well as for students who are currently creating projects for our state map contest. At the end of the contest, we can delete the accounts and create them again as needed.

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TamaNunnelley — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 04:00:38 GMT

That's a great question, Rich. I would like to know that as well.

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TamaNunnelley — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 04:02:56 GMT

I have done this with 6th grade students to great success. This was back before story maps and crowdsourcing. It takes a little more work up front and of course a lot of personal management but it can be very effective. At the end of term, I graded each group using a team rubric. Then, I was able to delete the work and keep the groups to use next semester.

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InaAhern — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 04:06:48 GMT

Hi Allison-

I think you will find a problem trying to add a "public" account to group in an organization. I'm not sure about Developer accounts as I haven't set one of those up, and they are supposed to be like a "one-person organization" so they might work, but when I attempted to add my public account to a group in my organization it wouldn't work. See: https://community.esri.com/thread/188240-managing-groups-in-arcgis-organizational-public-accounts (although I think this thread has some confusion because they are dealing with two separate issues….one is inviting a public account to join an organization group (which can't happen) and the other is inviting someone with a public account to join their account to an organization (which can happen, but I wouldn't recommend as it will then no longer be a public account).

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TamaNunnelley — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 04:09:16 GMT

I am not sure how many of you are involved in your state geography alliance (part of the network of National Geographic Alliances). This year we are starting a multi-year initiative involving spatial thinking, inquiry, the C3 framework, and of course GIS will play a huge role in this. Over the summer each state will send 2 representatives to collaborate on lessons and materials. The participants have to be a techie or media specialist in a middle school and either a middle school science of social studies teacher in the same school. They will test these lessons on their students and then share the results in a collaborative format with pairs of 20 other such teachers in our state. We will work with the Mississippi Geographic Alliance on this project.

On another note, I have had some success with collaboration in a Dual Enrollment Global Environment and Societies (GIS Enabled) course. While they had a facilitator in the classroom, I was the online instructor. For their final project, students were placed into groups where they had to map out a potential "Zombie Apocalypse" invasion and evacuation scenario using either AGO or Story Maps. It was fantastic! Very creative, fun, and a great way to show what they had learned in the course as well as show off some GIS skills.

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DellaRobertson — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 05:22:41 GMT

I read about the geography alliance. There was a call for teachers in specific states. I believe most were located in the northeast.

I did register for the My California GIS Mapping Exhibition & Competition hosted by the California Geographic Alliance. This is a first, and I think it's a good way to direct teachers's efforts and get students motivated to create a product that has the potential to be exhibited and enjoyed by many.