Accessing Esri Academy eLearning

If you would like to learn about a workflow or a component of the ArcGIS System at your own pace, eLearning from the Esri Academy is the place for you. 

What is the Esri Academy?

The Esri Academy is where you can access eLearning resources, created by Esri, to help you keep up with the rapidly changing geospatial world and to build the skills and expertise you need to reach your geospatial goals.

The Esri Academy is sometimes referred to as the Esri Training website.

eLearning Types

There is a plethora of types of eLearning on the Esri Academy. Each type of eLearning in defined below:

• MOOCs – Massive, open, online courses. Esri MOOCs range in length from four to six weeks and require an investment of two-three hours of study per week. A new set of materials is released each week for you to work through. Esri MOOCs have been designed to help expand horizons and advance geospatial careers.
• Story Maps – Story Maps referenced on the Esri Academy combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images and multimedia content to enable you to learn about a specific topic or product in the ArcGIS System.
• Training Seminars – Live and recorded video presentations with software demonstration by Esri subject matter experts. Eagle Technology also offers Training Seminars under the guise of our GIS Webinar Series. For a list of upcoming Eagle Technology Webinars visit https://bit.ly/3iNJiq5.
• Tutorials – tutorials provide step by step instruction on how to complete a task or learn a workflow, they tend to cover some of the newer technology that Esri has recently released. Most tutorials are under an hour in length.
• Videos – training and educational videos from Esri and industry experts
• Web Courses – interactive self-paced courses with activities and hands-on exercises. Web courses are more in-depth than tutorials and therefore tend to take longer to complete.

To access all Esri Academy eLearning resources visit www.esri.com/training/Bookmark/PK8QHXN78

How do you get access to all the eLearning on the Esri Academy?

To access any of the eLearning resources on the Esri Academy you need to login. Therefore, you need to have an Esri username and password. This may be an Esri public account, or a username connected to the organisation that you work for (this may be your ArcGIS Online username). The type of account you have will determine the level of access to eLearning resources you have.

An Esri public account only gives you access to the eLearning resources  that are marked as ‘Free’. To access eLearning resource marked with the words ‘Requires Maintenance’, you need to have a username connected to the organisation you work for. This organisation also needs to pay Esri fees via Eagle Technology to access ArcGIS products and therefore to gain access to these resources. To connect an Esri public account to your organisation you need to have a chat to your organisation’s GIS Administrator to find out who can connect your account.

Happy learning 

By the way, if you are wanting to learn via instructor-led training instead of eLearning resources and are located in New Zealand or the South Pacific please visit Eagle Technology’s learn page for a list of the instructor-led courses we offer https://www.eagle.co.nz/learn/course-catalogue

Information for GIS Administrators

Your organisation can give employees access to all Esri Academy resources in one of two ways:

• Through an Esri access enabled ArcGIS Online username
• Via an Esri public account linked to your organisation’s My Esri account

To enable Esri access on an ArcGIS Online username follow the instructions at https://bit.ly/3QOGhlW. With Esri access enabled, when someone logs into Esri Academy with their ArcGIS Online username, they will automatically gain access to all eLearning resources.

If you get asked to connect an Esri public account username to your organisation for eLearning access, you can do this on the My Esri website. To make this connection using the below process you need to be an Administrator on the My Esri website for your organisation.

The process of connecting an Esri public account to your organisation to enable Esri Academy eLearning materials is as follows:

1. Login into My Esri
2. Click Users > Invite Users
3. Enter the email address for the person requesting access to the eLearning resources, you can give multiple people access to the eLearning resources by uploading a CVS or XLXS file of email addresses, you can invite up to 1000 people at a time
4. Click Validate, invalid emails will be flagged
5. Once all email addresses are valid, click Next
6. Specify Access e-Learning permission (turn off other access at this stage if appropriate), click Next
7. Add appropriate text to the invite that will be sent to the people you are inviting to access eLearning resources
8. Send the invite(s)
9. The person who receives the invite needs to click the link in the email and login with their public Esri account. Once they are logged in, your employee will be connected to your organisation in MyEsri and will have full access to all eLearning on the Esri Academy

If you are unsure whether you should enable access to Esri Academy eLearning resources via My Esri or ArcGIS Online, read this article to help plan your approach.

If you would like some assistance with setting up access to Esri Academy eLearning resources, please contact gistraining@eagle.co.nz