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ArcGIS Online Storymap

Diving Deeper with ArcGIS Online Story Map

Goals

This workshop is part 2 of visualizing data in ArcGIS Online, focusing on creating StoryMaps with the ArcGIS Online platform and tools. This workshop is intended for those with introductory knowledge or experience with ArcGIS Online but looking for advanced features and functions of the story maps. There are three main sections: 1) Adding and exploring data from local and ArcGIS Online 2) Reviewing how to create a web map 3) Creating a Story Map from scratch.

Please feel free to review previous Introductory to ArcGIS Online Workshop

Learning objectives

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

  • Configure design and themes
  • Add basic Story Map features
  • Embed medias in Story map
  • Embed immersive content
  • Publish and share the Story Map

Setup

To Do

1 Create ArcGIS Online Account

You will need to sign up for a free ArcGIS public account ahead of time. If you have an organizational account with Esri, you can choose to use your regular sign-in or create a separate free account. https://www.arcgis.com/index.html

Log in with the organization’s URL

Create an ArcGIS Public Account

2 Download Workshop Data

Click on the ‘Download Data’ button below to start the download. Once complete, extract the contents of the .zip file.

Download Data

Please prepare four images that can be freely use for the workshop (links or save locally), or you can use the images provided.

All of the data for this workshop are under the license of creative commons or open data sources, please feel free to download and save it to your computer.

Geospatial Information Resource at UBC