MDSC 30056 — Digital Empires: Making StoryMaps (Cai)

Log in (OIT knowledgebase article)

• https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories
• Click the Sign In button

• Click Your ArcGIS organization's URL (if the button already says, "University of Notre Dame ArcGIS Online," you can simply click that button and the Okta process will start)

• Type "notredame" into the text box (no spaces or extra characters!) > Click Continue

• Click the University of Notre Dame ArcGIS Online button

• Okta in as usual 

Create a Story

• Data for the tutorial (opens in new window) // example tutorial StoryMap (opens in new window)

• Click the green New Story button > Start from scratch

• Click in the "Title your story" text box to enter a title 

Design Menu

• Change the Cover look
• Choose to display or hide the Navigation and Credits sections
  • Turn on Navigation
  • Leave on Credits
• Change the font and color scheme Theme

Note the Other Menu Options

• Preview (note: this will undo your history)
• Publish
• Miscellaneous options
  • Add to Favorites
  • Story Settings
    • Consider changing the date on cover from the default to "date of last update." You can type the date the project was created/published (which doesn't change) somewhere else. This setting tweak saves you work by having the system change your revision date. 

• Duplicate
• Delete

Add a Cover Image

• You can Upload or Link to images in general, but are only able to UPLOAD a cover image

• Click the Gear icon button for Image Options
  • Display: type or paste citation information into the Attribution field > Save
  • Properties: type or paste alt text into the Alternative Text field > Save

Add Text (Paragraph / Headings)

• Click the Tell your story... text to start entering text 

• Type "Context"
  • After typing Context, select/highlight the word to bring up a menu of options you can change: Headings, lists, quotes, bold, italics, hyperlink, color options, and left/right justifications 
  • Select Heading 1

Adding a Map Tour

• Add > Map Tour > Start from Scratch > for this demo, we will use the Guided Map-Focused layout > Save

• If you need to change to a different layout later, you can click the Options button at the lower-left of the Map Tour module.

Adding Map Tour Content

• By default, the map tour module will load a blank first slide for you. For each map tour slide, you can include an image or video, a title, a description, and a location point on the map.

• At the bottom of the slide's text box where you entered a description, click the Add Location button
• In the upper-right corner, type or paste in a location to search—you can type in a place's name or latitude/longitude

• The map will zoom into a location matching your coordinates and then display a pop-up box > on that pop-up box, click the Add to map button > Save
• To add a second slide and location, click the green plus sign button in the lower right-hand corner of the Map Tour module

Customizing the Map Tour Map

• Click the Edit button in the top center of the map

• Using the "Options" menu on the left-hand side, you can tweak the location point colors, show progress lines from location to location and choose a different basemap.

• If you would like to use the background basemap shown below, click Browse more maps > My Organization > search for or click to select "Environment Basemap with no Labels" > Save

Adding an ExpressMap

• Click the green plus sign button > Map

• Click the New express map button

• Enter a location into the search box in the upper-right corner of the window > Enter > Add to map

PUBLISHING YOUR STORYMAP

• You can change your sharing settings as many times as you wish
   
• Private (only you and Notre Dame account administrators can see the content)
   
• Organization (people who login with Notre Dame accounts)
   
• Public (anyone on the web)
   

PRESERVING YOUR STORYMAP

• Print Preview > Print will export a PDF of your StoryMap for your records (consider screenshots of various views of any interactive elements to preserve interesting perspectives)
   
• If you used a document to outline and draft your content before adding to the platform, that will also preserve your content if you need to reconstruct it in the future