Free ZIMS Training Courses

Elevate Your Skills in Animal Care and Conservation

Whether you are a zookeeper, aquarist, or conservation professional, our online courses will help you leverage the power of ZIMS to improve animal care, welfare, and conservation efforts.

ZIMS for Keepers and Aquarists Course

Our popular ZIMS for Aquarists and Keepers course is available to all registered ZIMS users. The free course is aimed at animal care staff and has been developed to provide the skills needed to enter daily aquarist and keeper information into ZIMS.

The course includes the following modules which
you can complete at your own pace:

Animal Care

Learn how to navigate ZIMS, complete animal searches, and enter basic information in the Animals Module.

Tools and Reports

Learn how to use tools and reports within ZIMS to view, visualize and extract data.

Enclosure Care

Learn how to navigate the Enclosure module, enter basic information in the Enclosure Module and how to use tools within ZIMS to visualize Enclosure related measurements.

Species360 Insights Course

Our Insights course provides a great overview of the global resources available in ZIMS. This course is freely available to all Species360 Members, Insights subscribers and Educational License holders.

Topics in this course include:

Husbandry Data

Species Event History, Animal Age Distribution, Weight Comparison Report, Taxon Advisory Group Export, Population Overview, Global Holdings by Animal Type.

Medical Data

Anesthesia Summaries, Drug Usage by Type, Expected Blood Test Results.

Population Data

Global Studbook Search Tool

The enrollment key is available through the Help menu in ZIMS.

Global information
serving conservation.

Species360 facilitates international collaboration in the collection and sharing of data to serve global plant and animal management and conservation goals.