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How to Use GIFs as Cover Photos in Rise 360 (with Free GIFs!)

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LauraHawk-46cb4
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7 years ago

Adding a cover photo to a Rise 360 course is an easy way to make your course look beautiful, inviting, and customized. And you’re not limited to still photos! You can add GIF files to your Rise projects to make them really come to life.

That’s why we’re giving away a bundle of six GIFs for you to use in your Rise 360 courses. Grab the download, then check out this simple tutorial to see how easy it is to update your cover photo with one of these gorgeous GIFs: 

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  • MichaelDiFonzo's avatar
    MichaelDiFonzo
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Nice feature to draw the user in. Love the comment about debating the pronunciation of it being GIF or gif. Made me laugh.
  • KeithShull's avatar
    KeithShull
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    I probably know the answer to this, but does Storyline 3 support the use of gifs (pronounced w/ a hard "g," since it's short for Graphics Interchange Format)?
    :~)
    • MichaelDiFonzo's avatar
      MichaelDiFonzo
      Community Member
      7 years ago
      I just inserted one of these gifs as a picture in SL3 and it worked fine. It did take a long time to preview though.

      I heard the creators pronounce it with a soft g but it can be pronounced either way (I'm on the soft g side).
  • CindyvonHagel's avatar
    CindyvonHagel
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    I used a lightening gif over another picture and put it at 95% transparency. It looked great.
  • JohnToh-9a95b93's avatar
    JohnToh-9a95b93
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    This is great!! it works for my course in google chrome, but not IE 11. Anyone else having this issue?
    • MichaelDiFonzo's avatar
      MichaelDiFonzo
      Community Member
      7 years ago
      Plays on my IE 11. Check to see if there's something blocked on the address bar that you might have to click to allow it. Can't remember what it may be.
  • MarcoBaldan's avatar
    MarcoBaldan
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    It is a useful feed, this one.
    Still, It would be very useful to know what you do advice for reasonable sizes for GIFs, even if the fine tuning is up to each user.
    • LauraHawk-46cb4's avatar
      LauraHawk-46cb4
      Staff
      7 years ago
      Well I will say this, the height matters a little less than the width.

      I'd say for a banner image to look decent on a 1920x1080 desktop monitor I wouldn't go much smaller than 1280x720. But that aspect ratio is very flexible. It's the 1280 (width) number to watch. Once you're forcing something to go twice its size it's going to be kinda blurry.

      In a perfect world you could have it be actually 1920x1080 buuuut at that resolution gifs tend to get really heavy in their file size like 20 mb. That makes them take too long to load and sometimes won't upload at all as the Cover Image for a course. The width res on these downloads is 1750p. So kind of meeting in the middle.

      Hope this helps!
  • KirendeepJagdev's avatar
    KirendeepJagdev
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Didn't realise you could put a GIF as the cover photo in RISE, looking forward to trying some out.
  • NgLiShan's avatar
    NgLiShan
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    I am unable to put a GIF in Rise though I followed the steps, is there any reasons? Thanks!
    • LauraHawk-46cb4's avatar
      LauraHawk-46cb4
      Staff
      7 years ago
      Hi Ng Li Shan,

      Sometimes if it takes too long to upload on your internet connection it times out. Are you using the Gifs we've provided in the download? If the Gif is too large a file it can time it out as well. I tested them all and they upload but if my internet was being slow sometimes it caused an issue. You could try the same one again or try one that is a smaller file size.

      Let me know how it goes,
      Laura
      • NgLiShan's avatar
        NgLiShan
        Community Member
        7 years ago
        Dear Laura,
        Thank you for the prompt reply. Yes, I used the Gifs provided in the download. I've tried with my workplace LAN network, however it still display the error: Please verify the file type is an image and try again.
        I've unzip the file too.
        Thank you!