Learn the Basics of QGIS

If you’re brand new to GIS, this is the workshop for you! By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

  • Understand the capabilities of GIS
  • Open geospatial data in QGIS
  • Identify the coordinate system of the data
  • Visualize the data in different ways

Watch the workshop

Click the links below to watch a recording of this workshop on YouTube:

Full workshop – October 21, 2025


Workshop outline

This workshop is designed to take about two hours as a live demonstration. If you are working through the materials on your own time, it may take a bit longer.

Time Topic
0:00 Introduction
0:05 GIS basics
0:35 The QGIS interface
0:50 Break
1:00 Coordinate systems
1:30 Visualizing data
1:45 Practice / Q&A
1:55 Wrap-up

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