Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Services

Online GIS Training Available to UNC-CH Affiliates

UNC at Chapel Hill has a site license for Esri products which is maintained by ITS. Through this site license, UNC at Chapel Hill affiliates (current faculty, staff, and students) have free access to many Esri Virtual Campus online courses.

Esri also offers a number of free online courses available to anyone.

How to Enroll

UNC at Chapel Hill affiliates should email one of our GIS Librarians with the following information:

• the name of the course you would like to take
• your full name as it appears in the UNC at Chapel Hill Directory
• your onyen

You will receive a course access code via email. Once you have received the course access code, go to Esri Training. Follow the "My Training" link. If you already have an Esri global account, sign in with your member login and password. If not, click "Create new account" and complete the form to create a new Esri global account. There is no fee to join.

The courses are online, but to complete course exercises, you will need access to ArcGIS software. See our Getting Started with GIS at UNC page for information on software availability.

Unsure which classes to take? Suggestions for Beginners

Search course descriptions and view colurse recommendations with the Esri training catalog. The Free Training and Web Courses are particularly helpful.

New to GIS? Beginners may find the following courses especially helpful:

• Getting Started With GIS - This course is free, no access code is required.
• The 15-Minute Map: Creating a Basic Map in ArcMap (note this course is for version 9.x)
  
• Learning ArcGIS Desktop (for ArcGIS 10)
  
• Basics of Map Projections (for ArcGIS 10)
  
• Working with Coordinate Systems in ArcGIS 10
  
• Getting Started with the Geodatabase (for ArcGIS 10)
  
• Cartographic Design Using ArcGIS 9 (note this course is for version 9.x)