ArcGIS Online for Instructors

Need to include a geospatial component or focus in a course you are teaching? CSUMB's Education and Research ArcGIS Online (AGOL) organization can be used for sharing content, field data collection, running geospatial analyses, science communication via Story Maps, and a host of other applications. AGOL is also the primary way the ArcGIS Pro software is licensed, so if you plan to use ArcGIS Pro in your course, you and your students will need AGOL whether you use the portal directly or not. In addition, membership in our AGOL org enables access to ESRI's Online Academy for GIS Training.

All CSUMB students, staff, and faculty have access to AGOL, but the best way to use it in your curricula is to have a dedicated course-specific user group in our AGOL portal for each relevant course section. Having all students for a section in a group facilitates sharing and communication and gives you and your students a place to keep your work apart from that of other users (we have over 2500!).

Setting up group(s) for your course(s) can easily be accomplished by using this form, or sending a student roster for each course to gis@csumb.edu. The roster must include First Name, Last Name, OtterID, and email address.

You can use "Course Analytics" in CANVAS to download a Report containing all the required student roster information. just go to Course Analytics>Reports>Class Roster, click the "Run Report" button, and then save the resulting .csv file.