Introduction to ArcGIS Pro, Hobart, March 2026

Want to learn how to use the world's leading geographic information systems software? Give your career a boost by adding the ability to use this powerful software to your skillset. Learn how to gain new insights into your data, perform incredible analysis and then share your findings through media rich paper or web maps. This course provides foundation learning for the latest ESRI desktop ArcGIS Pro software and is the essential basis for capturing mobile data, managing geographic data, publishing maps on the web and making digital or paper maps.

This two-day robust course provides hands-on experience together with a conceptual overview of ESRI’s ArcGIS Pro software. The course teaches basic ArcGIS Pro functionality and enables participants to quickly take advantage of the software’s powerful display and analysis capabilities.

You will learn how to

• Display and query all types of geographic data.
• Symbolise and classify data to discover new insights into your data.
• Analyse your data to discover important information.
• Integrate data from a variety of sources.
• Use coordinate systems, particularly the Geocentric Datum of Australia (GDA).
• Create and edit your own geographic data.
• Map features from GPS coordinates.
• Work with a variety of databases.
• Create maps.
• Increase you skills and value to your organisation

• Instructor presentation of topics, concepts and techniques using slides and live demonstrations.
• Practice sessions; each student receives a work book that guides them through realistic ArcGIS activities.
• Questions and discussions.

This ArcGIS Pro course is a stimulating and rewarding experience. There is a good mix of instructor presentation and practice sessions so that you can make the most of the two day course. The atmosphere is informal and friendly providing the ideal learning environment.

Many specialist software courses are built around data and conditions suitable for the USA. In Australia we often have a better way, so our course has been built for Australian conditions and data. Rest assured that we do still adhere to the usual ESRI training standards. The practice sessions have an appeal to a broad cross section of users from Botanists to Engineers.

Our trainers work with GIS every day and know how to apply the technology to a variety of situations. You can use us to bounce your ideas and help you better understand the software in your situation.

This course is for those with little or no desktop mapping or GIS experience; however, registrants should be familiar with Microsoft Windows.

The course runs over 2 days and will start at 9 am and finish at 4:30 pm each day

“Fast learning, excellent course.”

David Seymour, Mineral Resources Tasmania

“As a teacher and workplace trainer, I was pleasantly surprised at the high quality of the training – the environment was also excellent, thank you.”`

Andy Baird, Greening Australia

Course Outline

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Info: What is ArcGIS Pro and what can it do? The components of ArcGIS Pro. Map Views. Layout Views. Catalog Views. The ArcGIS product suite.

Info: A taste of ArcGIS Pro; explore Australia using ArcGIS Pro

Info: Components of Map Views. Controlling the Map display. Map Frames. Symbols and Symbol Editing. Thematic Mapping. Adding labels. Animations.

Info: Using ArcGIS Pro

Info: Modelling the real world. Feature types and classes. The attributes of features. Metadata – data about data. Supported data formats. Mapping data from coordinate listings.

Info: Exploring World, Australian and Antarctic spatial data using the Catalog view.

Info: Representing a round earth on a flat screen. Map projections and coordinate systems. Geocentric Datum of Australia.

Info: Setting coordinate system properties.

Info: What can you edit? The tools and buttons on the Editor Tab. Creating Features. Selecting the features to edit. Working with feature templates. Spatial Editing Functions. Editing Attributes.

Info: Adding and editing spatial data.

Info: Coordinate entry. Snapping and tracing.

Info: Creating and editing polygons using snapping and tracing.

Info: What is a table? Field types and how they work. Working with tabular data in ArcGIS Pro. Table relationships. Links and Joins. Useful Tools for Tables.

Info: Exploring and working with tabular data.

Info: Finding features using the locate tool. Setting up map tips. The Pop-up tool. Hyper-linking to web pages. Attribute selection. Other selection tools. Select by location. Select across data layers. Statistics. Analysing selection results.

Info: Query your data in ArcMap.

Info: Producing a Map. Creating a layout. Layout grids and rulers. Components of a layout. Adding graticules. Rotating maps. Working with map frames and other elements. Map templates. Printing and plotting.

Info: Putting it all on Paper or other Shareable Media

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