Course format 4:3 or 16:9?

Feb 26, 2019

I know it can sound weird, but wich screen format is better for course player, 4:3 or 16:9?

Our courses are mainly played from Desktop but sometimes from mobiles and tablets.

We're looking even informations if is better to upgrade the scorm version to 2004 (2nd 3rd or 4th?) from 1.2; we're using Forma as LMS.

Thanks

2 Replies
Alyssa Gomez

Hi Matteo!

If you're using Storyline 360 or Storyline 3, you'll see the responsive player on mobile devices and tablets. It fluidly responds to the screen size and orientation of any mobile device for the best viewing experience, hiding sidebar menus, eliminating browser chrome, and delivering mobile-friendly playback controls. No extra work required. Just publish your course and let the player do all the work for you.

What's more, Storyline 360 also has the Modern Player for desktop viewing. It scales smoothly to fill learners’ browsers on every screen, large and small. 

As far as which slide size to choose (16:9 or 4:3), that's a matter of personal preference! I'll leave it to the community to share their recommendations with you. 

Matteo Vaccarella

Thank you Ashley!

Actually we're still using older settings as the Calssic Player and flash/html5 scorm, as we need to be sure scorms are working on the lms, as we have courses made of many many hours of lessons and we need to be sure everything will work fine.

My question was a kind of survey to try to improve lessons and I'll make some tests of course.

Thank you

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