Teaching Tip: Animate your course banner

November 20, 2018

Marissa Carl

The GIF format is ideal for creating animated images and they are commonly used to propagate memes, grab attention, succinctly explain a step-by-step process and otherwise communicate visual information quickly. We see them in news articles, our social media feeds and even in instruction. Is a GIF an element you would consider incorporating into the banner image of your online course?

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— Teaching Tip by Christen Bouffard, an instructional designer, adjunct faculty and Google for Education certified trainer with 14 years of design experience in academics and higher education

A sample course banner for The Secret Life of Mycelium with a firework exploding.