ESRI E-Learning

ESRI E-Learning online courses are available to PSU students, staff, and faculty.

Access to ESRI E-Learning:

The free e-learning subscription PSU received, is a Standard Subscription that allows access to self-paced e-learning courses authored by ESRI. This type of subscription does not allow free access to any instructor-led courses. You can use the Catalog menu on the e-learning site (https://www.esri.com/training/) to browse the available courses or search for specific courses.

You must have a valid PSU ArcGIS Online Single-Sign-On account to take online courses. You can continue accessing ESRI E-Learning online courses as long as you have an active ODIN account. Please note that once your ODIN account is expired after graduation, you might lose your “Esri Training history”. Make sure that you save your online course certificates as pdf files for your own records.

To gain access to ESRI e-Learning, please follow the steps below:

  1. If you haven't activated your PSU ArcGIS Online account, please activate your account first. Go to https://pdxedu.maps.arcgis.com/ and click on “Portland State.” Enter your ODIN username and password to log on to PSU ArcGIS Online. Note: you will use the same procedures to sign in to your PSU ArcGIS Online account.

  2. PSU ArcGIS Online account activated after July 1, 2019 will have access to ESRI E-Learning and an ArcGIS Pro license assigned to the account automatically. There is no need to submit further requests. If your PSU ArcGIS Online account was activated before July 1, 2019 and you know that you don't have access to ESRI E-Learning, then please continue with the steps below to gain acccess to ArcGIS Pro license and ESRI E-Learning access.

  3. Send an email to Geoffrey Duh (jduh@pdx.edu) indicating that you need to access ESRI E-Learning. Please provide your ArcGIS Online account name in your message. It might take up to 3 days to have your request processed.

  4. Once you get a confirmation message from Geoffrey, please go to https://www.esri.com/training/ to access the E-Learning online courses.

Take E-Learning Courses:

If you already have an active PSU ArcGIS Online account, then please follow the steps below to access ESRI E-Learning courses:

  1. Go to https://www.esri.com/training/ and select "Sign In" on the upper-right corner of the window.

  2. Select "Your ArcGIS organization's URL" to continue the log on process.

  3. Enter " pdxedu " as the prefix of the PSU ArcGIS organization's URL.

  4. On the next screen, select "Portland State"

  5. Enter your ODIN username and password to complete the ESRI E-Learning sign in process.

For more information, see this this step-by-step document.

How do I know if I have access to ESRI E-Learning:

  1. Go to https://www.esri.com/training/ and sign in with your ODIN account.

  2. Search for a course that requires maintenence agreement.

  3. Check if the course's lock icon is closed or open. Closed lock means that your account doesn't have access to ESRI E-Learning courses.