ESRI's Virtual Campus
Under our UGA ESRI site license, WSFNR students have access to ESRI's Virtual Campus. Here you can enroll in online ArcGIS courses that are self-instructed and self-paced. This is an excellent way to get up to speed with the ArcGIS software.
If you are new to ArcGIS, I suggest starting off with
- Learning ArcGIS Desktop,
- Learning ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, and
- Working With Rasters in ArcGIS Desktop
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Some other useful courses in which you should enroll after the basic introductions, are:
- Understanding Map Projections and Coordinate Systems
- Understanding GIS Queries
- Geoprocessing with ArcGIS Desktop
- The 15-minute Map: Creating a Basic Map in ArcMap
- Creating and Integrating Data for Natural Resource Applications
Here is the complete list of Virtual Campus courses.
If you see a class that you are interested in, send Geoff Garland (ggarland@cviog.itos.uga.edu) an email requesting and "ESRI Virtual Campus class login code". You should include the course title from the link above and inform him you are a student currently enrolled at WSFNR. This is available to faculty and staff also.