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General Online Help For ESRI Products

  • ArcGIS Desktop Tutorials
  • ESRI web-based help overview

    ESRI Virtual Campus Courses free for MIT Students

    ESRI virtual campus classes are available to the MIT community through our site license. These courses are all online and can be started and stopped at one's convenience. If you would like to take one of these online courses please send an email to gishelp@mit.edu listing the name of the course(s) you are interested in taking. A gis specialist will then email you the course codes necessary for beginning the class.

    Additional courses offered free of charge to anyone are listed on the ESRI Virtual Campus website: http://campus.esri.com/. ESRI provides a series of Learning Pathways that define a set of ESRI training courses, focused on a particular aspect of GIS.

    General GIS Courses:

  • Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning Using ArcGIS 9
  • Creating and Integrating Data for Natural Resource Applications
  • Understanding GIS Queries
  • Understanding Map Projections and Coordinate Systems
  • Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH for Earthquake Loss Estimation
  • Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH for Hurricane Loss Estimation
  • Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH to Assess Losses from a Riverine Flood Hazard
  • HAZUS-MH Flood Model Output and Applications
  • Integrating User-Supplied Hazard Data into the HAZUS-MH Flood Model
  • ArcGIS General courses:
  • Cartographic Design using ArcGIS 9
  • Creating and Editing Labels and Annotation
  • Creating and Maintaining Metadata Using ArcGIS Desktop
  • Geoprocessing with ArcGIS Desktop
  • Georeferencing Rasters in ArcGIS
  • Learning ArcGIS 9 Desktop
  • The 15-Minute Map: Creating a Basic Map in Arcmap
  • Using ArcCatalog: Tips and Tricks
  • Geocoding with ArcGIS Desktop
  • ArcGIS Geodatabases:

  • Basics of the Geodatabase Data Model
  • Creating and Editing Geodatabase Features with ArcGIS 9
  • Creating and Editing Geodatabase Topology with ArcGIS 9
  • Creating, Editing, and Managing Geodatabases for ArcGIS 9
  • Working with Geodatabase Subtypes and Domains
  • Working with Map Topology in ArcGIS
  • ArcGIS Extensions:

  • Introduction to ArcScan for ArcGIS
  • Learning ArcGIS 9 3D Analyst
  • Learning ArcGIS 9 Spatial Analyst
  • ArcGIS Programming:

  • Customizing ArcGIS Desktop
  • Customizing ArcMap: Easy Ways to Extend the Interface
  • Introduction to Visual Basic 6
  • Understanding Branching and Looping in VBA
  • Working with Forms in VBA
  • Working with Variables and Functions in VBA
  • Learning Visual Basic for Applications for New ArcGIS Developers
  • ArcGIS Other:

  • Introduction to GIS Data ReViewer
  • Working with Rasters in ArcGIS Desktop
  • Linear Referencing with ArcGIS Desktop
  • Other ESRI software :

  • Introduction to Arcview 3.x
  • Customizing ArcPad
  • Customizing ArcIMS
  • Learning ArcIMS
  • updated June 2009

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