Every semester, her 120 students would create beautiful, complex GIS projects—analyzing flood zones, mapping food deserts, tracking wildfire spread. But when a student accidentally saved over a shapefile, or when a group of four tried to collaborate on a single ArcGIS Pro project, chaos ensued. Emails with attachments named final_map_v3_REAL_FINAL.aprx flooded her inbox.
And that’s where GitHub became indispensable. Dr. Vasquez created a GitHub Classroom for Geography 76. Every student received a private repository template containing: geography 76 github
“There has to be a better way,” she muttered, sipping cold coffee. Every semester, her 120 students would create beautiful,