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GIS workshops

Research computing regularly schedules and coordinates GIS workshops with the UD Library, Delaware Geological Survey (DGS), Esri, etc for members of the UD community who wish to learn more about a particular aspect of GIS.

SPRING 2021 WORKSHOPS

Getting Started with ArcGIS Online
Wed, March 3, 2021 2:00-3:30PM
Via ZoomDetails and registration https://library.udel.edu/events/events/?id=341

Getting Started with ArcGIS StoryMapsMarch 10, 2021
2:00-3:30 PM
Via Zoom
Details and registration https://library.udel.edu/events/events/?id=346

Getting Started with ArcGIS ProWed, March 17, 2021
2:00-3:30 PM
Via Zoom
Details and registration https://library.udel.edu/events/events/?id=349

If you have topics that you would like to be presented in the GIS Workshops series, submit your ideas to gis-info@udel.edu.

The Fall 2020 workshops (below) have been taught:

  • Researching and Exporting Data with PolicyMap.
  • Getting Started with ArcGIS Online.
  • Getting Started with ArcGIS StoryMaps.
  • Getting Started with ArcGIS Pro.

Recent workshops

  • Getting started with ArcGIS Pro
  • Getting Started with ArcGIS Online
  • Digital Scholarship Method Series: Introduction to Data Collection
  • Creating and Sharing Your Data with ArcGIS Online Story Maps
  • Researching and Exporting Data with PolicyMap

UD-GIS Community Group

The UD-GIS community group has taken different forms at different times, according to community involvement. If you are interested in participating in a UD-GIS meet up, please join UD-GIS Google Group.

Esri e-Learning

The University of Delaware maintains a site license with Esri, the makers of ArcGIS. As part of this site license, UD faculty/staff/grant supported student that pay for an Esri license and any UD student may take any GIS technology classes at Esri e-Learning at no cost. These courses are a great way to get started with GIS or learn a new aspect of ArcGIS or even general GIS fundamentals. Send a request to askIT@udel.edu if you would like access to Esri e-learning. (If you are requesting for a UD course the email should include a list of UDel email addresses for all students in the class.)

University Classes

A number of departments at UD offer courses focused on or touching on geospatial knowledge.

Fundamentals Classes

  • Introduction to GIS (GEOG372)
  • GIS in Natural Resource Management (APEC480)
  • Geographic Information Systems and Science (GEOG670)
  • Advanced GIS (GEOG471/671)

GIS Topics Classes

  • Select Technical Topics: Python Scripting, LIDAR & Hyperspectral, etc. (GEOG473)

Classes Where GIS is Applied

GIS LearnIT Express Sessions

These quick videos highlight a particular technology or technique, to fast forward your learning