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 I was pretty happy when day 4 rolled around.  A week full of intro classes really bored me, and I was ready to be done. The first class did not help. ArcGIS Pro: Tips and Tricks, only showed one new thing I hadn't seen before, which was animated line symbology. I definitely want to test this one out. The next class was ArcGIS Online: Best Practices for Organization Management. An exciting new feature is being able to set credit budgets per user! Another new feature is creating member categories and sub categories, and bulk actions. However, you still cannot export credit usage for storage.  ArcGIS Pro: 3D Tips and Tricks showed another animated symbology of moving trees. This presenter really knew his stuff, I was impressed. He showed a way to modify a feature, and load texture i.e. adding a picture (from your phone) of the outside of a building to a 3D representation of the building. You can add also shadows to your scene for a little extra fun. ArcGIS: Real-Time Use Ca...

 Wednesday was another day of intro classes... First up was Imagery in ArcGIS: An Introduction to Image Management. Mosaic dataset is the optimized model (referencing the imagery, publish as an image service, can color balance). They briefly discussed cloud object storage, the create cloud storage connection file tool, ArcGIS Image for AGO -or- ArcGIS Image Decidated, Imagery workflows (website resource), and Image Management in Pro. The next class was ArcGIS Online: What's New. This session was quite glitchy, but some of the things I saw are the sketch tool, and 3 new charts have been added. Dashboards classic is retiring in 11.0, and dashboards will migrate. Map Viewer has a new directions widget (you can save navigation routes), supports basemap projection switching, html pop-ups (!!!) the ability to group layers (!!!) 3 layers deep by dragging and dropping!! About time! Map Viewer editing includes snapping and can edit in forms. In ArcGIS Insights: An Introduction, right off th...