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, 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?



— Teaching Tip by , 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.