Relevant, informative and visually stunning imagery helps to ensure your course content is engaging, polished and professional. Images also play a pivotal role in ensuring your online training appeals to different types of learners, especially visual learners.

Using branded images is a simple way to make your training materials look more professional and reflect your organization's identity. If you have any branded illustrations, icons, or photos, you can easily use them to spruce up your Workspace, Catalogs, and Courses with banners and other visuals.

Fortunately, adding images to your course content is a straightforward process, as there are typically no strict guidelines regarding size or aspect ratio. We advise against cropping your images at all. Instead, you can effortlessly upload an image or choose from the image browser, and let Coassemble handle the rest.

Once you’ve added an image to Coassemble, there are several options you can choose to change the way it is displayed.

You can see some of these options in action in the Flashcards example below.

The ‘Fill’ option is set as the default, because Coassemble is a responsive web platform that resizes images dynamically to fit different screen sizes or resolutions.

The ‘Fill’ option automatically scales images to fit within the designated area or frame, while maintaining the image aspect ratio.

If your image is set to ‘Fill’, you have the ability to reposition the image within the image container. This option was included to address any clipping that might obscure an image because the images you add won’t always match the ratio of the image container.

The ‘Fit’ option is recommended when it is crucial that every part of the image you have added is visible. When an image is set to "Fit," it will be automatically scaled down or up to fit within the specified dimensions while maintaining its aspect ratio.

When an image is set as a ‘Background image’, it will behave exactly like the ‘Fit’ option, with the ability for you to reposition it. The key difference between an image that is used as a background image, is that the text will be positioned on top of the image. For this reason, background images will sometimes have a gentle overlay on top of them to make the text more legible.

There are a small number of places in Coassemble that require a specific ratio. If you upload an image that is not in the correct ratio, don't worry, the Coassemble image uploader will automatically suggest a crop size that you can adjust to suit your needs.

The images that need to be cropped to a specific ratio are listed below, along with the required ratio:

Unless your image is purely for decorative purposes, e.g. course or dashboard banners, Coassemble allows you to add alternative text.

Alt text is an important component of web accessibility, as it allows unsighted users to understand the content and context of visual elements on the screen.

To add alt text, click the edit image button, and select the ‘Alt’ option to reveal a text input.

Alt text should be concise, accurate, and convey the same information as the image. It should also be descriptive enough to convey the purpose and content of the image, without being too long or overly detailed.

There are four places you can add banners in Coassemble, and in each of these, the purpose of the image is to provide a decorative background that a title and text can sit on top of. These places include:

Background images in banners will scale up and down depending on the screen size of your users, and it is for this reason that we recommend you do not use text within your banners.