GIS Training Programs and Workshops

A variety of training programs are available.

Virtual campus. Each CSU campus has unlimited access to certain online courses through ESRI's Virtual Campus. The Virtual Campus Subscription Administrator for each campus provides access codes to these courses. For more information regarding the Virtual Campus class descriptions, please see the ESRI Virtual Campus Web site.

Instructor led. This benefit includes vendor-based instructor-led training at ESRI facilities in Redlands and other California venues. There are a limited number of these instructor-led training days. Use of these training days is limted to faculty and staff.

ESRI training manuals. Lecture materials and exercises for introductory and advanced courses in GIS, accessible online or by mail. Exercises use local California datasets, such as a 20-layer coast-to-bay transect of the San Francisco peninsula for environmental analysis, or a landuse and demographic analysis of the San Gabriel Valley.

CSU/GIS workshops. each year the CSU GIS Specialty Center organizes workshops by and for CSU faculty and technical support staff. The number of specialized workshops (in applications areas, e.g. ecological modeling, cartography, business applications, geologic mapping, census mapping, natural resource modeling, etc.) depends upon subscriber interests and needs.

On-line training module. ArcGIS & Business Analyst Training Modules for Site Selection

Business Analyst Training Modules. These teaching modules are designed to train students to perform site location analysis using the Business Analyst extension of ArcGIS.  They were developed, written and copyrighted by Michael Reibel under a grant from the California State University Geographic Information System (GIS) Specialty Center.  These modules are property of the CSU GIS Specialty Center.  Permission to use them is hereby granted for academic purposes.  Use of these teaching modules for training in any setting other than a high school or university course is expressly forbidden without the written consent of the CSU GIS Specialty Center.  These modules deal exclusively with operational issues pertaining to performing site selection analysis using the Business Analyst extension in ArcGIS.  They do not teach the basic operation of the ArcGIS program suite, nor do they cover the general theory and practice of site selection for different operational purposes.  The modules can therefore be combined with other curriculum material depending on the scope of GIS and/or site selection courses.