Education Blog

Sometimes it's not cheating if you copy someone else's work. Sometimes it's a great way to get started understanding how to do something yourself. When working with dashboards, looking at the guts of a dashboard you love is a great way to figure out how to make similar dashboards for your own projects.

As always – there are already a ton of blogs and documentation published around the recent ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS app updates that took place this June (on the evening of June 26h). The goal with this blog is not to repeat all of the news/updates that have been published, but to call out a few of the updates that I found the most exciting and pertinent for the education audience. To ensure I don’t crush everyone with the full list of updates, I’ll keep things to just 2 of the updates that excited me the most.

A great way to get comfortable working with data is to collect your own. Yet in the classroom, you run the risk of students submitting invalid data - either funny and inappropriate, or not aligned with the project's standards - that you don't want shared with the class. Ensure shared data is data you want your students seeing by reviewing it before it is visible to the class. Let's look at how.

An Atlas is a type of an ArcGIS Instant App – and really easy to create if you already have an ArcGIS Group that contains the maps or data you want to appear in the Atlas. In this blog I show three ways to manually embed your atlas or atlas content into a storymap.

ArcGIS Online public accounts are great – for teachers.  Most importantly, they can be quickly created and logged into with one of your existing social profiles like Google, Apple, or Facebook.

Powerful tools to help students quantify change and predict the future!

February 2024 update of ArcGIS Online brings lots of exciting new Features.  To assist you in getting up to speed with the new features, here are the key highlights from this update:

A familiar workflow is to access apps through the ArcGIS Online app launcher (opened via the Apps button - aka the waffle icon). Org admins can add other apps, websites, and documents into the app launcher. They don’t have to be Esri ones. And you can even control which apps appear for which users. All this in 3 steps!

Capture, process, and publish your drone data with no cost software already in your ArcGIS School Bundle!

Slides and recordings from a recent hands-on workshop that I co-taught with my colleague for a university community of practitioners have been published.  The workshop was coordinated by a university librarian and its focus was to give skills and confidence to those instructors and researchers who had been using ArcMap for many years, and were now embarking on their own pathway using ArcGIS Pro.