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We’re happy to announce the updates to the Esri Education Institution Agreement have been completed.  The updates include the addition of premium apps for both academic and administrative use, plus the addition of ArcGIS Online Viewer user accounts for administrative use.   The premium apps add spatial data science capabilities to ArcGIS for visualization, exploration and analysis of data in any discipline, as well as location tracking capabilities: ArcGIS for PowerBI adds mapping, spatial analysis, and demographic data to Microsoft Power BI. ArcGIS Notebooks provide a Jupyter experience optimized for spatial analysis. ArcGIS Tracker enables organizations to know the real-time location of mobile staff. The ArcGIS Online Viewer accounts enable more administrative staff to have “view-only” access to maps and dashboards related to the operation and management of an institution. The premium apps can be used with both ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise named users, for both academic and administrative purposes.  For information about provisioning licenses to new and existing users, please consult the ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise documentation for managing licenses and the Best Practices for managing ArcGIS in higher education. To help you and your IT staff understand how ArcGIS Tracker can be deployed in a manner that complies with privacy considerations and regulations, the ArcGIS Location Tracking Privacy Best Practices document is available from the ArcGIS Trust Center. Need help? Please contact your account manager or highered@esri.com with questions.   Note: Because the Education Institution Agreement includes unlimited GIS Professional user accounts for academic uses, ArcGIS Online Viewer user accounts were not added for academic use.  We recommend providing academic users with full capabilities for the purposes of learning and research.  However, members of an ArcGIS Online subscription can be assigned a Viewer role if you wish to provide “view-only” access.   ... View more

  Did you know one of the benefits of the Esri Institution Agreement is unlimited access to Esri Academy e-Learning resources?  This includes 200 web courses and dozens of training seminars, as well as short videos and tutorials.  Web courses include hands-on exercises that enable learners to apply concepts, and can complement your existing courses or provide self-directed learning opportunities. Courses on new topics such as spatial data science are added frequently, and existing courses are updated regularly to stay in sync with software releases. This saves you time updating creating or updating exercises. In addition, all course descriptions have been updated to more clearly identify course goals and suggested skills, making it easier to find resources that support your courses learning objectives. Six new courses and 33 updated courses have been added to the catalog since January 1.   Some highlights: Change Detection Using Imagery (New version: ArcGIS Pro 2.7) Getting Started with Spatial Analysis (New version: ArcGIS Pro 2.7) Introduction to ArcGIS Arcade (New course) Suitability Modeling: Introduction (New course) Understanding Spatial Relationships (New version: ArcGIS Pro 2.7) For a quick look at what’s new at Esri Academy, you can always check the New and Retired Training section of the catalog.  For regular updates on new courses, live training seminars, and other resources, subscribe to Esri Training News. ... View more

**Updated April 2023** The Esri Education Institution Agreement provides universities and colleges with broad access to Esri technology for teaching, research, and administration.  Because the Esri Education Program offers discounted license fees, certain categories of use are not permitted under the terms of the program.  Sometimes it is unclear whether a particular use is permitted under the terms of the Esri Education Program or requires a standard commercial license.  This document provides a framework within which license administrators and Esri staff can make informed decision about the permitted uses of Esri products under the terms of an Education Institution Agreement. ... View more

“Learning by doing” is appealing because it directly links abstract concepts to concrete situations in the “real world”.  Learn ArcGIS is a collection of lessons designed around this principle, with many lessons focused on current events and social issues, such as climate, sustainable development, and the COVID-19 pandemic. New lessons are added frequently.  Recent additions include several individual lessons (listed below) and a set of materials designed to support an introductory course on imagery and remote sensing. New Learn ArcGIS Lessons Climate proof a neighborhood with ArcGIS Urban Learn how to create an urban model and use it for the redevelopment of a neighborhood in Amsterdam. Visualize ecological marine units with voxels Learn how to create a NetCDF file from a point feature class and visualize it in 3D as a voxel layer in ArcGIS Pro. Analyze demand for hospital capacity and highlight areas of risk Build plots and maps to support analysis of forecasted hospitalization and bed data in ArcGIS Insights. Track virus spread with ArcGIS Insights Use link analysis to trace contacts as a virus spreads through a community. Introduction to Imagery and Remote Sensing A body of materials to aid the development of university-level curricula on the subject of Introduction to Imagery and Remote Sensing ... View more

The Education Institution Agreement provides qualified institutions with an affordable way to acquire select Esri products for non-commercial teaching, research, and campus administration. This document outlines the products and benefits included in the agreement. ... View more

Recordings of the the 2020 Education Summit sessions are now available in this YouTube playlist.   In addition, chat logs of select sessions are available: Chat from Teacher Tips session Chat from Teaching in the COVID-19 Era session Chat from the ArcGIS StoryMaps in Higher Education session Finally, slides from the sessions are now available on the Esri Proceedings site. ... View more

Chat log from the sessin ArcGIS StoryMaps in Higher Education ... View more

Whether you need a quick video tutorial or activities for a semester-long course, Esri has learning resources to meet your needs.  Esri Academy, Esri Press, and Learn ArcGIS offer resources that suit a variety of learning styles and that cover a range of topics (geography, environment, business, health) and capabilities (mapping, analysis, data collection). Learn about the hundreds of resources available to educators and students.    Esri Academy provides hundreds of free e-learning resources   Esri Press publishes books about the science, application, and technology of GIS   Learn ArcGIS provides guided lessons based on real-world problems ... View more

One benefit of moving the Esri UC online is that sessions are now available for on-demand viewing. Here's a rundown of what's available and how to access it. Plenary Sessions The Plenary Sessions are available now to everyone on the Esri Events YouTube channel. Here's the playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaPDDLTCmy4YwK56yHaEdtRgNUoPBiZTz. User presentations and Technical sessions User presentations, technical workshops, and demo presentations are available exclusively to registered attendees until September 1, 2020. After September 1, 2020, the content will be open to the public and be available until at least the 2021 UC. Registered attendees can access session recordings through the site uc2020.esri.com. You will need to login under the account you used to register for the event. If you did not register for UC 2020, you will have access to session recordings after September 1 on the Proceedings site, proceedings.esri.com. The proceedings also are available for purchase on a USB drive, which may be helpful for those with limited internet connectivity. For more information, see store.eventcapture.com/collections/esri-online. Map Gallery The Map Gallery is now available to everyone at www.esri.com/en-us/about/events/uc/esri-uc-map-gallery#/. Esri Education Summit - August 6-7 And although registration for the UC is now closed, you still can register for the Education Summit for more sessions focused on the needs of educators and administrators at www.esri.com/educ ... View more

With the June 2020 update of ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Notebooks are now available to everyone in your ArcGIS Online organization. There is nothing extra to buy nor an app to assign to start using ArcGIS Notebooks – it’s just there. However, your members do need the right privileges before they can hit the ground running. (Note: the information below is updated from the blog introducing the ArcGIS Notebooks public beta.) Here’s how to enable your community to use ArcGIS Notebooks If you are an administrator of an ArcGIS Online organization, you will notice a new Notebook option in the top ribbon navigation of ArcGIS Online. Administrators and members with notebook privileges will see a new Notebook option in the top navigation of ArcGIS Online. If, as an administrator, the idea of members of your organization suddenly creating Python notebooks sends waves of worry down your spine – don’t panic. The flood gates are not open. For non-administrators to create notebooks they will need to be granted a new set of privileges as part of a custom role. There are two privileges associated with ArcGIS Notebooks: a basic privilege for “Create and Edit Notebooks” and an advanced privilege that allows you to use arcpy or GPU enabled notebooks called “Advanced Notebooks”. Any notebook user must have the Create and Edit Notebooks privilege enabled. The Advanced Notebook Privilege is required if you want to create notebooks that use ArcPy or access the GPU-enabled notebook runtime. Remember, Advanced notebooks will consume credits. To assign these privileges to a user you will need to use a custom role. (If you need to create a custom role, go to Navigate to Settings > Member Roles > Create Role).  Assign the users that you wish to have notebook privileges a custom role that has one or both of the notebook privileges. We recommend that you use this same custom role in the New Member Defaults so all new users will have these capabilities available. Advice for configuring New Member Defaults is available in this blog and this video. Do ArcGIS Notebooks Use Credits? Within ArcGIS Notebooks in ArcGIS Online there are three options for creating notebooks: Standard, Advanced, and Advanced with GPU support. These options differ in what Python libraries are included and the underlying compute resources that are provided. Standard includes open source Python libraries and the ArcGIS API for Python. It includes a smaller amount of CPU and memory than the other two options. It is ideal for web GIS administration automation and any analysis that uses the built-in tools of ArcGIS Online. Using Standard notebooks (which are enabled by granting users the “Create and edit notebooks” privilege) will not cost any additional credits to create or run, as everything included in the notebook is either open source or already built-in to ArcGIS Online. Advanced notebooks include everything that is in Standard and also includes arcpy. Advanced notebooks provide a moderate amount of CPU and memory and are a good choice for almost any workflow. Advanced notebooks will consume credits, as they provide unlimited access to geoprocessing capabilities of arcpy. The third option is Advanced Notebooks with GPU Support, these notebooks include the same Python libraries as “regular” Advanced notebooks. The only difference is that this option provides dedicated GPU infrastructure under the hood allowing you to do computationally intensive workflows such as machine learning. Due to both the access to arcpy and GPU resources, these notebooks will also consume credits. Keep in mind that you can control credit consumption by restricting who has been granted the “Advanced Notebooks” privilege and through the per-user credit budgeting system that already exists within ArcGIS Online. Where can I get more information? If you used ArcGIS Notebooks during the beta period and have questions what happens to your notebooks and content now, see this announcement from Shannon Kalisky, Product Manager for Analytics and Data Science. To learn how ArcGIS Notebooks can be used in teaching, read Coaching the Next Generation of Spatial Data Scientists or view the webinar Teaching with ArcGIS Notebooks. For lessons and ideas for using ArcGIS Notebooks in your courses, see the new Learn Path Teach with ArcGIS Notebooks. For details about using ArcGIS Notebooks, see the topic Get started creating notebooks in the ArcGIS Online documentation.   ... View more

Join us Thursday morning (July 16) for the UC Higher Education Special Interest Group Meeting, 9:15 am – 10:15 am PDT.  We’ll share updates and resources to help you serve your community whether they’re working online or on campus, and provide information about updates to Education Program licenses.   We also want to hear from you – what are your concerns and what additional support can we provide?  We’ll start the session with a brief survey, which you can submit ahead of time at https://arcg.is/1n5OOT.   Registration for the UC is complimentary and you can register at www.esri.com/uc.   The session will be recorded and you will need to be registered to access the recording. If you can’t attend in person, you’ll still want to register for access to this and all the other wonderful sessions, including the Science Symposium, Tech Sessions, User Sessions, and other Special Interest Group Meetings. ... View more

So you've registered for the Esri UC and you're wondering what happens next... You'll receive a check-in email this week (probably Thursday) with all the details you need.  It will include a UC Video Tour and a UC Attendee Guide along with the access link for the event.  You'll login with the same account info used to register.   The Plenary Session will begin at 10:00 am PDT.  We recommend logging in a few minutes early to make sure everything is working smoothly.  After the Plenary Session ends, the Sessions, Expo, Map Gallery, and Networking will begin.  See the Agenda for the schedule of Tech Sessions. ... View more

Best practices for managing ArcGIS evolve as the technology evolves and new resources are created to guide administrators.  Below are recommended resources as of June 2021 for managing ArcGIS in higher education. How to manage ArcGIS with your Education Institution Agreement Setting new member defaults video Migrating User Types video Enabling enterprise logins video Distributing installation files and licenses Building a dashboard to monitor usage Funding and Support Models of GIS Migrating User Content - Tips & Tricks Advice for off-boarding students (faculty/staff) when they leave your institution ... View more

ArcGIS Drone2Map is now available with special pricing for educational institutions for use in teaching, research, and campus administration.  Packages are available for single departments or entire institutions with quantities from 5 to 500 licenses.   ArcGIS Drone2Map is a desktop app that turns raw still imagery from drones into orthomosaics, 3D meshes, and more, in ArcGIS.  With applications in agriculture, architecture and construction, civil engineering, environmental monitoring, public safety, among others, drones are popular in a variety of courses and majors, and several colleges and universities offer drone-focused certificate and degree programs.   These Drone2Map Education packages can be added to an existing Esri Education Institution Agreement, Academic Department License, or Administrative Use Department License.  For institutions that don’t currently license ArcGIS, a Department license provides a low-cost entry point while an Institution Agreement provides cost-effective access for the entire institution.  Drone2Map is also now available in the ArcGIS for Schools Careers Bundle.   Esri provides training for Drone2Map through Esri Academy and Learn ArcGIS.  Courses and lessons are free to customers with an Esri Education Institution Agreement or Department License.   For more information or to purchase a Drone2Map Education package, contact academicsales@esri.com. ... View more

As Jack Dangermond announced yesterday, the 2020 Esri User Conference is moving to a virtual format.  The event will include Plenary sessions, technical workshops, user sessions, an Expo, and unique networking events. It will take place July 13-15 and registration will be complimentary for all Esri customers with current licenses/maintenance and for all currently enrolled students.  Institutions with a current Education Program license may register an unlimited number of participants (e.g., Education Institution Agreement/Site License, Academic Department license/Lab Kit, Administrative Use Department license, Schools Bundle).   This FAQ provides additional details about registration policies and the event format.   The 2020 Education Summit will be moved to a later date.  Details about the schedule and format will be shared as they become available. ... View more