Education Blog

The following documentation pertains to ArcGIS Pro 3.3. Prior (or newer) versions may have options and settings that differ from the screenshots and workflow outlined.

With single use and concurrent use licenses removed from education agreements, the method for licensing your university users is through ‘named users’. We have recommended setting up SAML or single-sign-on (SSO) for use with ArcGIS Online, to make the licensing process for users as seamless as possible.

To make it even EASIER for users in lab machines, there is the ability to install ArcGIS Pro silently with a number of default settings that make sign-ins a breeze.

If you already have ArcGIS Pro installed on lab machines and want to update the settings across many installations, this can be accomplished by updating Windows Registry settings. That workflow is outlined in the 2^nd part of this blog.

In a new storymap and a series of videos, I explain why and how you can enhance qualitative social science research with GIS.  This storymap and videos are the result of collaboration that I have been in over the past year with colleagues at Esri, led by our Chief Scientist, Dr Dawn Wright, and in conversations with many of you in academia during that time period.

Explore and contribute scary place names with National Geographic MapMaker and Survey123 in this global exploration of frightful toponymy!

This activity can be used as a GIS instructional resource around Halloween.

A new storymap and a series of videos explains why and how GIS professionals can and should connect with the education community. 

MapMaker has large catalogue of carefully curated maps and data for schools that supports a wide range of curriculum areas. This short blog will highlight three new additions to the collection that have an Oceans theme or connection:

Read on for Sea Surface Temperature, Ocean Currents in Motion and Sea Floor Crustal Age.

It’s that time again. The annual ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition is underway, and this year, we’re looking for stories about creating a better world. What makes a winning story, you may ask?

Meet a few competition winners from previous years and get their advice before you get started.

Have students color a map to demonstrate knowledge, plan a route, design a city, share where they've been or want to go... the possibilities are endless. Start by printing blank maps from MapMaker. Use the Black and White Outline basemap.

Join Esri staff in Tempe for the 2024 meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education.  In addition to hosting an exhibit, Esri will be leading several workshops.

Register to attend this webinar on October 2, 2024 | 4:00–5:00 p.m. (PDT), to learn how to help increase students’ job readiness by building their professional GIS skills.

While map layouts (exported as PDFs, JPEGs, etc.) are fantastic – they are really just updated paper maps. They are ‘static’ representations of a specific time and place. When we have students place static maps into a StoryMap… they are just creating ‘new’ PPT presentations. Are they digital? Of course! But we can do a lot better when it comes to teaching about and guiding students on HOW presenting spatial information has changed.