Have you completed the pre-course survey and joined our community forum? If not, please return to the 'Preparation' module above

Introduction

Welcome to Module 1 of ‘Introducing GIS for conservation’. We’re so pleased to have you here!

In this module, you’ll take your first steps in using QGIS, including adding your own data to a new project, and managing how layers are displayed. You will also decide a specific learning goal that you want to achieve by the end of the course

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• Describe how you want to use GIS to support your own conservation work
• Distinguish between GIS projects, layers and spatial data
• Create a GIS project
• Add data layers to your project and manage their display order
• View a layer’s properties
• View a layer’s attributes table
• Use the Identify tool to view a feature’s attributes

Before we open QGIS, let’s get to know each other Go to the next page to introduce yourself to the other conservationists on this course

---