Latest Contributions by AdenaSchutzberg1

Happy 2019! Ready to learn?    These massive open online courses are free and those who complete a course receive a certificate. Students work at their own pace when they have time. Come join us!   Going Places with Spatial Analysis is a six week course that covers why geography matters and how to think like a geographer to solve problems that involve location.   Do-it-Yourself Geo Apps is a four week course that introduces code-free ways to turn a map into an interactive application on the Web or a mobile device. ... View more

Esri Fall 2018 and Winter 2019 MOOC News   Change is afoot! I want to update you about changes to how you register for our courses and the latest course schedule. That map above? It's one of the maps you make in the Cartography. MOOC.    Registration: Smoother than Ever   Esri MOOCs are now managed like other Esri training courses. You’ll find them in the Esri training catalog. Here’s a link for MOOCs by date www.esri.com/training/Bookmark/P3D53EERX.   Once signed in to Esri training site with your Esri credentials, you can find your course and register with a single click. I encourage you to check which e-mail address is associated with your Esri credentials. Many e-mails sent to MOOC students bounce due to inactive e-mail addresses. Most individuals can review and change your e-mail address by clicking on your name at the top right to open the menu and then selecting Profile and Settings. If you are part of an ArcGIS Online organization you may need to contact your organization’s administrator.   Remember that registration closes at the end of the second week of each course. We cannot enroll students after registration closes. My advice: when in doubt, register! There are no downsides to registering: it’s free and no notation is ever made on your training record unless you complete the course. If you do not start the MOOC or complete only part of it, the MOOC will simply disappear from your My Schedule page after it closes.   System Check   Earth Imagery at Work and Cartography. require ArcGIS Pro. All students registered for those courses should have a computer that can run the software. MOOC students are provided with software and a named user license; the license is revoked when the course closes.Here’s a test to see if your computer can run ArcGIS Pro http://links.esri.com/run-arcgis-pro.   2018 Third and Fourth Quarter MOOCs   Do-It-Yourself Geo Apps: Sept 5 – Oct 3, 2018 (four weeks; all content opens on the first day)   John Shramek, who helped develop and has been teaching The Location Advantage MOOC, will teach this offering. While much of the course has not changed and focuses on building apps without any programming, John enhanced the exercises to introduce students to Survey 123 and Operations Dashboard. http://arcg.is/2kqHWz6   Cartography.: Sept 5 – Oct 17, 2018 (six weeks; new content opens each week)   This is the second offering of the course from Ken Field, Edie Punt, John Nelson, Wes Jones and Nathan Shephard. Student feedback suggests this course, which highlights ArcGIS Pro’s cartographic features, is also a great introduction to the software. http://arcg.is/2teM7VN   Earth Imagery at Work: Oct 31 - December 12, 2018 (six weeks; new content opens each week) Kevin Butler leads students through scenarios highlighting how imagery is used in a variety of disciplines including disaster response, agriculture and commercial business. Students are often surprised at how many imagery exploitation tools are available in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro. http://arcg.is/2jMPFoQ   2019 First and Second Quarter MOOCs   Do-It-Yourself Geo Apps: February 6 - March 6, 2019 (four weeks; all content opens on the first day)   Cartography.: April 10 - May 23, 2019 (six weeks; new content opens each week)   Earth Imagery at Work: April 10 - May 23, 2019 (six weeks; new content opens each week)   Questions?   The training site includes MOOC Common Questions and a form where you can ask specific questions. http://bit.ly/2EpE3XB  Educators can contact me directly via GeoNet or e-mail at aschutzberg@esri.com.   I’ll see you in class!   Adena Schutzberg MOOC Program Manager ... View more

The Esri MOOC team has transferred the certificates  of completion earned during 2014-2017 from the Udemy platform to the Esri training website. MOOC students can visit their My Learning Activity page and sign in with their Esri credentials to view them.   Our programmers transferred nearly 30,000 certificates, but some are not yet linked to the correct student's Learning Activity page. If you believe a certificate for an Esri MOOC you completed on the Udemy platform is missing from your page, contact us via the form at the bottom of this page. Please include your name, your username and the name and date of the course. We'll find it and add it to your page.   In addition to printing the PDF certificates, the MOOC team encourages educators and students to link to them from CVs, resumes, portfolios and LinkedIn profiles via their unique public URLs. For example, here’s the certificate for the first Esri MOOC I completed back in 2016.    We look forward to awarding more certificates of completion in the third and fourth quarters of 2018! ... View more

Past and future MOOC students attending the Esri User Conference in San Diego are invited to our very first MOOC MeetUp on Tuesday July 10 from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM in the convention center room 25 A.   - Get the latest information on the MOOC program - Meet fellow MOOCers and MOOC instructors - Provide feedback and ideas - Play games - Win prizes   Please come by! No RSVP needed! ... View more

Some enhancements to ArcGIS Online are big and others are very small. My favorite one from the September update is very, very small. It’s a tiny checkbox that only ArcGIS Online administrators would ever see. Here it is in all its glory:   If you’ve not run into it yet, log in as an administrator of your organization, and have a look at Edit Settings, and choose the Credits tab. If checked, the "Show each member's available credits on their profile page" will allow users to see how many credits they have when they visit their profile page.   Sometimes, we ArcGIS Online administrators, who are often educators, want to be stealthy. We don't want students to know about or worry about credits. Most of the time in the Esri MOOC program, that's the case. But in The Location Advantage, when students have access to all the GeoEnrichment tools in ArcGIS Online and all of the wonders of ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App, they tend to get excited and run lots of analyses as they learn about location analytics. We want them to do that! But we also want them to understand what credits are and how they work. So, for that MOOC, we are enabling this feature for our students starting with the April 2018 offering. ... View more