This topic provides a set of links to a collection of various ArcGIS tutorials used to perform a number of common tasks in ArcGIS. Find the tutorial that you would like to work through by clicking the links in the tables below.
To work through the ArcGIS for Desktop tutorials, you need to install the tutorial data from the ArcGIS for Desktop Tutorial Data setup, which is part of the ArcGIS for Desktop installation download or media. If the tutorial data has been installed on your system, look for it in C:\arcgis\ArcTutor (the default installation location). In many cases, you will need write access to that location to perform the tutorial.
The ArcGIS for Server installation does not include tutorial data. Most of the ArcGIS for Server tutorials are written in a generic way so that you can follow the steps using your own datasets.
Keep in mind that these tutorials are only a starting point for you to learn about ArcGIS. You can find real-world tutorials that teach you the entire ArcGIS Platform, at the Learn ArcGIS website.
ArcGIS for Desktop application tutorials
| Tutorial | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Database servers | This tutorial shows you how to use ArcGIS for Desktop to use database servers (instances of SQL Server Express) and the geodatabases you create on the database servers to store, access, and edit GIS data. An ArcGIS for Desktop Standard or Advanced license is required to complete the tutorial. | |
| Editing | In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of the editing environment in ArcMap, including creating new features on the map; updating attribute values; utilizing snapping while editing, creating, and editing annotation; using topology to maintain spatial integrity; and performing spatial adjustments on your data. | |
| Editing parcel fabrics | In this tutorial, you will learn how to create, manage, and edit a parcel fabric. An ArcGIS for Desktop Standard or Advanced license is required to complete the tutorial. | |
| Finding a route | In this tutorial, you'll be introduced to the Find Route dialog box. The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the route-finding functionality that it offers. | |
| Geocoding | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create and manage address locators and how to use them to find the location of an individual address or table of addresses. | |
| Geodatabases | In this tutorial, you'll learn to build geodatabases that include relationship classes, subtypes, attribute domains, topology, geometric networks, and feature-linked annotation. An ArcGIS for Desktop Standard or Advanced license is required to complete the tutorial. | |
| Geoprocessing service examples | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create geoprocessing services for ArcGIS for Server. | |
| Linear referencing | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create, manage, display, query, and analyze data whose relative position has been modeled along a linear feature. | |
| Maplex Label Engine | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to design and create publication-quality cartographic labels for maps using the Maplex Label Engine. | |
| ModelBuilder—Executing tools | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use ModelBuilder to execute a sequence of tools. | |
| ModelBuilder—Creating tools | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a useful tool from a model. The model can then be run using its dialog box. | |
| NetCDF | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a raster layer from a netCDF file, change the display, and analyze temporal temperature data. | |
| Rasters and images | In this tutorial, there are exercises to help you learn how to build mosaic datasets, the decisions you need to consider for your data, and the uses of the mosaic dataset. | |
| Representations | In this tutorial, you will be introduced to representations that allow you to symbolize geographic features with a set of rules that are stored with your data in the geodatabase. Representation rules can create and draw dynamic geometry that differs from the feature shape, allowing a complex depiction of features without impacting the spatial integrity of your data. Representations provide greater control over the precision and definition of the symbolization of your data. An ArcGIS for Desktop Standard or Advanced license is required to complete the tutorial. |
ArcGIS for Desktop extension tutorials
| Tutorial | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| ArcScan for ArcGIS | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to generate vector data from rasters, including how to use the cell selection and raster snapping tools, perform simple raster editing and automatic vectorization, and interactively trace raster cells. | |
| Data Interoperability | In this tutorial, you will learn how to directly read and analyze the additional data formats supported by Data Interoperability; translate data between various formats using Quick Import and Quick Export tools; transform data schemas using Custom Import, Custom Export, and Custom Formats; and incorporate all these functions into your geoprocessing models. | |
| Geostatistical Analyst | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to represent and explore data and detect trends and directional influences, perform diagnostic tests, evaluate and model spatial autocorrelation, build interpolation models using ordinary and indicator kriging, compare the results of these models, and create maps using the output surfaces. | |
| ArcGIS Network Analyst extension | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create network datasets and use them to find routes, find closest features on a network, calculate service areas and origin-destination cost matrices, solve location-allocation and vehicle routing problems, and build a model for route analysis. | |
| Schematics | The Schematics in ArcMap tutorials are a good starting point for learning about the ArcGIS Schematics extension, which provides simplified representations of networks intended to explain their structure and make the way they operate understandable. The Schematics configuration tutorials focus on Schematics configuration using Schematic Dataset Editor. | |
| ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension | In this tutorial, you'll learn how to prepare, query, and analyze both feature and raster data. You will perform a suitability analysis and a cost distance analysis and make a site selection. | |
| ArcGIS Tracking Analyst | In this tutorial, you'll learn how ArcGIS Tracking Analyst can be used to analyze the movement of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. The tutorial will introduce you to several features Tracking Analyst provides for symbolizing, visualizing, and analyzing temporal data. |