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‎04-28-2017

Hi Rich- I've been watching and see that no one has answered your question. I don't have a real answer either, but I haven't seen anything in the documentation that there is a limit and I can tell you that we have over 80 groups in our NHEdGIS org without any issues. Ina

‎04-28-2017

Our NHEdGIS Organization is available to the public at http://nhedgis.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html although I confess we haven't updated our gallery in quite awhile. Something else to add to our "To Do" list. The Geospatial 101 changes a bit every time it is offered, depending on where it is being offered and the strengths of the presenters. You can access most of the information from links to past training on the NHEdGIS Training page (Current Training - NH Educational GIS Partnership ) For example, the 101 offered by Rebecca Lilja‌ and Shane Bradt last year is described in more detail at: 2016 Geospatial 101 Resources - NH Educational GIS Partnership Here's a link to a Google Site from one of the 2015 Geospatial 101 showing some of the resources and work the participants did: 1 Geospatial 101 North - NHEdGISSummer2015 Last year the 101 at Hopkinton ended up as a combined workshop in which we attempted to cover a lot of the Geospatial 101 content but also the content we had planned for a second workshop entitled "WebMaps Galore." rwoolner61 and I planned most of that one, and you can access our schedule here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14UKUixuHSn873iu2FV7vep5AOznxOYJN8QsPW5fBdRs/edit?usp=sharing

‎04-28-2017

Actually, public accounts can create groups and invite other public accounts to be members of the group. The issue however is how that group works. In an organization, something can be shared with a group and not made public. Anything shared with a group from a public account has to be made public. The group just becomes a way to make sharing it with certain people easier. See the very bottom paragraph at: Share items—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS (A long, long time ago, before there were organizational accounts, public accounts could create private groups, and those groups can remain as is, but new private groups can't be created.)

‎04-27-2017

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).

‎04-27-2017

Hi Bonnie- Sorry you are having problems. I work on a Mac as well, and ArcGIS Online, GeoNet, and Survey 123 should all work for you. Have you tried the troubleshooting steps that cfitzpatrick-esristaff recommends anytime you have trouble? If I remember correctly, they are in order: 1. Try a different browser 2. Try a computer re-start 3. Try clearing the browser cache (I find that I have to do this frequently if I want things in GeoNet to look normal) I'm not sure what you mean when you say that you "changed the sign in and it worked for awhile," but one thing to remember is that you can have different sign ins for these different things. For example, I GeoNet and Administer the NH State License under my "public" account (iahern) but do most of my ArcGIS Online work under either my school organizational account (prhs_iahern) or our NHEdGIS organizational account (nhedgis_iahern). I have to be careful that I'm either using different browsers or that I sign out of the organizational accounts before I attempt to go to GeoNet. Remember also that organizational accounts would need to have "Esri Access Enabled" in order for you to be able to GeoNet from them. Good luck! Ina

‎04-26-2017

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.

‎04-23-2017

There are several issues here. First of all, it IS possible to have users work on the same map by having the organization admin create a group that allows all users to modify the maps, and then getting the map shared with the group. However from the reference I found at: Enable colleagues to update your maps and apps | ArcGIS Blog this works for maps and some Apps, but not all. My students were not successful with it using the Apps they wanted to use. A group login can allow users to work on the same map, but not at the same time. I warned my students of this, but on Friday one partnership found this out the hard way. Both students had been working on one map and one was configuring popups while the other was symbolizing several layers. When the popup person saved at the end of the period, suddenly all the symbology for the layers disappeared as the symbology had been saved previously but was not on the "copy" of the map the popup person was using. Unfortunately, students are so used to working in Google files they've come to expect simultaneous editing.

‎04-16-2017

Award winning author Lyn Malone will be in NH on May 13th presenting a workshop on her Instructional Guide for the ArcGIS Book. For further information please see: Lyn Malone in NH! May 13th! - NH Educational GIS Partnership

‎09-22-2015

Hi Della- There are a couple different options. One is to use your e-mail address for all the student accounts….either your regular e-mail or by creating a new e-mail that you use just for student e-mails. This means that you will have to manage any change password requests or other issues, but you can have as many accounts on the one e-mail as is necessary. Another option may be to ask your tech department to "green light" Esri for use within your Google Apps for Edu domain. That's what we did in our school. Our e-mail is set up so that students can only send and receive e-mail from other addresses within our domain, but the administrator was able to set it so that students could receive e-mails from Esri so they could get password resets or other e-mails required to use AGO. We're in our second year of using that approach and it seems to be working fine. Ina

‎09-15-2015

What if each student creates a group titled with their name and "TurnIn." For example, TurnInAhern or perhaps TurnInGeo101Ahern if the course name should be included. They could then add the instructor and only the instructor to their group, and then share the work with that group only. It would still be a bit of a pain for the instructor as they'd need to go through and accept the invitation to each group, but in the instructor's group list the students would be in alphabetical order.

‎09-12-2015

Dom- Is it possible that the maps/apps that are being shared contain a layer that Esri classifies as Premium Content? Or is there a layer in the map that is not publicly shared? Esri has certain data that requires an organization login. It can be any organization login--it doesn't have to be the organization that created the map. For example, if I was using the LearnGIS account and created a map with certain demographic data, I could share it with everyone. If I then signed out and attempted to access the map, it would request a sign in. I could sign in with my school account and the map would appear. Premium content just requires you to "prove" you are a member of an organization. In the second situation, suppose the "LearnGIS" organization had created a layer and shared it with the LearnGIS organization only. I could create a map or app that contained the layer, share the map/app with everyone, and then sign out. Now when I tried to sign in with my school account, I still wouldn't be able to access the map, because the layer was only shared with the LearnGIS organization. As I'm not an administrator in the "LearnGIS" organization, I wouldn't be able to share that map layer with everyone, so there wouldn't be an easy solution, unless I could somehow make a copy of that layer and share it with everyone. Esri attempts to warn you when you attempt to share a map with a layer that is not publicly shared, but it doesn't always seem to catch it, and seems to warn you less often when sharing an app. For publishers/administrators in an organization there is a solution for Esri's Premium Content. It's described in an Esri blog at: http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2015/05/07/sharing-arcgis-online-demographic-maps-with-the-public/ Hope this helps. Ina

‎06-20-2015

Scott- On the iPad I'm able to open maps in Collector even when I'm off network and am able to switch back and forth between maps that are on the device without any connection. I don't have access to any of the Nexus tablets at the moment, so can't test it on that. As Miaogeng Zhang asked, are you having trouble with both Android and iOS or are all your devices Android?

‎06-15-2015

Hi Scott- I had the same problem earlier and after a call to tech support with this as one of three problems I was having with Collector, we came up with a solution. After you have the map on the device open, before you go off network connectivity, you have to turn off wireless on the device. When I did this, I was fine. I haven't tried then opening a second map, but as long as you need only one map, this should work. Ina PS. I've had this problem with the Nexus tablets, but not with the iPad minis. They seem to be fine with the map whether or not wireless is turned on.

‎05-28-2015

I have the solution! Charlie Fitzpatrick, Esri K-12 Education Manager, referred me to the blog entry: Including Online Demographic Maps in Your Public Maps and Apps | ArcGIS Blog posted by Deane Kensok on May 7th. Turns out the instructions above were missing the step to use the ArcGIS Online Assistant to change the referring URL. Thanks all!

‎05-25-2015

Hello all- Esri has been incredibly supportive of the use of ArcGIS Online in K-12 Education by the provision of an organizational account for every school through the ConnectEd program (https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/k-12/connected). We have many teachers and students making great maps and apps that include Esri Premium Content that they want to share with others that might not have an organizational account. Esri has made this possible through the sharing process described below which charges any credit consumption to the organization, however I’m still having some issues: Sharing Process: 1. Find out the service address of the service that requires Org-level access (a) See for example http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=3f8d2d3828f24c00ae279db4af26d566 (b) Look toward the bottom to note the actual service address, and the alert that this item requires an Org login, though it does not consume credits. Copy the service address and return to "My Contents." 2. In your account's "My Contents", do "Add an Item", from the web, pointing to the specific service address. In this process, a dialog box should pop up, alerting you that this is a protected item, and you need to make decisions. Unless you enter your login/password and store those credentials, it will require someone to log in, even if you do the rest of the steps below. 3. After storing the credentialed item, make the map (or modify an existing one) so it is pointing to the item in your My Content. 4. Save and share the map. 5. Make an app from the map, and share that publicly. So……I created a map that utilizes Esri’s 2014 USA Population Density layer. This layer (http://demographics4.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/USA_Demographics_and_Boundaries_2014/MapServer) displays population density in a yellow to red color scheme at various geography levels depending on zoom level (Block Group to State). This map is accessible by anyone with an organization login at: http://arcg.is/1SppiCR. I then followed the sharing process described above and added the item to My Content and shared it with everyone. I made another map with the item as listed in My Content (see http://arcg.is/1BhdeZJ) and the map is publicly accessible. Unfortunately, the map is no longer symbolized (styled). Although I knew it would be a pain, (and something beyond the level of many of the students/teachers I work with given time constraints) I figured I could go in and set the style so that it would display as it had been by classifying by population and normalizing by area in sq. miles and then using manual breaks. Unfortunately, no matter what browser I use, asking the map to do this for even the largest geography (states) brought every browser I tried (Safari, Firefox, Chrome) to its knees. Has anyone done this successfully? Thanks for any assistance you can provide…. Ina

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