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.

Fortunately, adding images to the screens in your course is a straightforward process, as there are no strict guidelines regarding size or aspect ratio. In fact, we actually advise against cropping your images at all.

Instead, simply upload an image, pick one from your library, or search for one 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.