Image Zoom and Magnification Techniques in E-Learning #226

Zooming and Magnifying Techniques #226: Challenge | Recap

A common design challenge for course designers involves working with high resolution images in a smaller, mobile-friendly screen size. For quick-hit solutions, you can run with Storyline 360’s zoom region, markers, and zoom picture tools. All three tools will quickly give learners a close-up view of detailed images.

But when you're looking for more custom solutions, you have to get creative. And that’s what this week’s challenge is all about!

Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to share a solution to allow learners to zoom in or magnify parts of an image, graphic, document, or video.

In previous challenges, we covered some features and concepts that could work for zooming and magnifying parts of an image:

• Labeled graphics interactions
• Interactive screenshots
• Before and after comparisons
• Tooltips, callouts, and explorable explanations
• Using web objects

New Entries Only!

We hosted the first image zoom challenge three years ago. It was one of our most active challenge weeks and continues to be one of the most asked questions in our workshops and webinars.

To keep things fresh and zoomy, we’re asking that you share only new examples this week. You’re more than welcome to re-work a previous example.

Ideas and Examples

Check out the following challenges for some features and design concepts that could be used for zooming and magnifying high resolutions images:

• Labeled graphics interactions
• Interactive screenshots
• Before and after comparisons
• Tooltips, callouts, and explorable explanations
• Using web objects

Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you zoom into this week’s challenge, check out the Snakes and Ladders e-learning games your fellow challengers shared over the past week:

Snakes and Ladders E-Learning Games #225: Challenge | Recap

Wishing you a zoomtastic week, E-Learning Heroes!

New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.