ARCGIS ADMIN EDUCATION - GeriMiller1/ago-admin-education GitHub Wiki

A collection of best practices and approaches for administering ArcGIS in Education - contributions by Peter Knoop, University of Michigan, LSA Advocacy and Research Support, and Esri Education Outreach.

Goals:

  • Maximize access to ArcGIS

  • Minimize time and cost spent managing ArcGIS

  • Leverage the concept of Enterprise GIS

    • transition from thinking of GIS as a domain-specific solution to something that everyone in your organization might use
    • as such, GIS deserves professional IT management akin to other enterprise IT systems, such as email, file sharing, etc.
  • IT Knowlege

    • Identity Assurance, Data Privacy and Security, Software Licensing, Integration with Business Systems

Key ideas:

  • Collaborate with IT ...leverage your colleagues expertise; users already know their username/password, and IT/HR already knows who should be authorized to access the system

  • Proactively Empower Users within Boundaries ...rather than putting the onus on them to request things, and generating a bunch of reactive work for yourself

Best Practices for administering ArcGIS in Education

Enable SSO (enterprise logins)

Transition from arcgis only to enterprise accounts

Credits

Esri Access

Entitlements

Handling new users

Groups

LMS Integration

Content

Monitoring

Enterprise Level System