GIS Exercises & Projects: What they are and what to turn in for credit.
The labs from the book or online will lead you through steps. I will ask you to “post” certain parts of these exercises. That means filling out a word doc with the requested material, which you will then save as a PDF to turn in, to the class Box fodler. Extra credit points may be available. I have to be able to easily read your posts at page level to evaluate it without zooming in. If I ask for a “screen capture” don’t capture a giant monitor (in the lab) or your whole desktop; use a tool to takes a reasonable piece of the terrain. You have snipping/screenshot tools in both Windows and Mac that let you take part of the screen; just ask if you need help finding/using one of them.
The deadline for finishing weekly exercises and projects is the following Monday at midnight. Please turn your work in to the appropriate Box folder; the one you recieved a link from in Week 1. Every file you submit for this course needs to start with your last name and be followed by a descriptive title (e.g., barber_week1_exercises.pdf)
If you have a question or QGIS doesn’t cooperate, please post your question in the Exercises Discussion in Canvas. You can start there to look for answers as well; if you post a new question, I’ll get an email and respond there so that everyone benefits. You might also want to get notifications for that discussion. Please name your Post “Exercise X – your brief description here” Thanks.
Exercise 1 (January 15, 2025)
This exercise is adapted from from the textbook by Menke (2nd edition). All data used in this book can be found here. Also, data for the exercises will be posted to our “shared-work” folder in Box.
- Copy today’s exercise folder to your lab computer.
- The exercise fodler contains:
- Edited isntructions by me
- a folder with data supplied by Menke
- a word doc with spaces for your “answers” to this lab, aka the “lab report”
“Your_last_name_Exercises_1_Week_1_2024.docx”
This “answer” sheet is the only thing you need to post to the shared “submission” folder in Box.
At the end of each lab, please copy your data folder from your lab computer to a personal Box folder. I don’t care where this Box folder is or what it looks like , but ensure that it is organzied and accessible. Doing this ensures any work you do in class is accessible by your laptop, and on other WLU computers. It also serves as a backup incase your work gets corrupted.