Fauna & Flora and WILDLABS invite you to a free, asynchronous, and four-part e-learning series that will build your confidence using GIS within conservation work. The courses are beginner-friendly and will have you working from fundamental theory up to using spatial analysis and geoprocessing in real-world scenarios.
This is Course 2: Introduction to QGIS. It is suitable for someone completely new to using QGIS but with familiarity of the GIS fundamental theory. (If you don't have GIS fundamental theory, check out Course 1!) This course will also help those who have used QGIS (or another desktop GIS software) in the past but want a refresher on the basics.
Course 2 will cover:
- How to download QGIS
- Becoming familiar with the QGIS interface
- Organising your materials and folders
- Adding data
- Looking at layer properties and changing the symbology
- Creating a print layout and exporting it
PLEASE NOTE:
There is a bug in the way we have converted our courses from our internal platform to access via GitHub, that means sometime the videos in this course won't load. This is a know bug with no current work around, we will keep trying reviewing in hope that we can fix this. In the mean time, please find all the videos in the course via this YouTube playlist.
Lessons Outline
Discussion
Use this space to ask questions, discuss with fellow participants, or share your thoughts after course completion.
Participants
Below are the WILDLABS members who have enrolled in and completed this course.

Annabel Pianzin is a conservation biologist and Assistant Research Officer with the Geology Unit at the Board of Trustees of Sabah Parks. She holds a Master of Science in Ecological Processes and a Bachelor of Science in Conservation Biology from Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
Biologist from the Dominican Republic interested in aquatic ecosystems ecology and conservation
I am an enthusiastic, self-motivated, reliable, responsible and hard working person. I am a mature team worker and adaptable to all challenging situations. I am able to work well both in a team environment as well as using own initiative.

Many thanks to WILDLABS. This community aligns precisely with my professional interest in applying IT expertise to nature conservation.
Further Reading
As an open source software, QGIS has a vast array of free tutorials and guidance materials created and shared by users. Here is just a small selection of additional resources for learning QGIS:
- A gentle introduction to QGIS by QGIS
- Introduction to QGIS by Spatial Thoughts
- Advanced QGIS by Spatial Thoughts
- Beginner to Advanced YouTube tutorial
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