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What is The Best Screen Size for e-Learning today?
Of course, The Best Screen Size is always based on “Your Audience First”
(What devices are your Audience viewing your e-Learning from?)
But what if the e-Learning is to be accessed by the m...
Hi Alvin, to the topic of resolution, I’m building my 1st interactive Storyline project for our field technicians that predominantly use tablets. The project will also be used for desktop training. It’s a completely custom design & I won’t use the player so I have all the screen real estate available. So I’m going with a 4:3 ratio. There are a lot of instructional diagrams & videos so image quality is a high priority. I’m thinking 1440x1080 given the high resolution tablet screens now & I can keep video resolution to 1280x720. Is this too big ie will it be too slow to load?
Hi Andy and welcome to the community! I just wanted to chime in and share these Storyline 360 best practices for high-quality images and videos. You mentioned that your audience will mostly be using tablets to access the training. Have you considered using Rise 360? As Nicole stated earlier, Rise 360 is fully responsive so you don't need to worry about slide size and it will look great on any device, of any size, which is great for those using tablets or desktops.
Hi Sarah
Thanks for welcoming me and the tips link. Really helpful!
Unfortunately, this project won't work in Rise for a bunch of reasons but thanks for the suggestion.
I will be doing an intensive 3 day course later this month but I'm hoping someone will be able to respond soon with some resolution suggestions as I'm currently making all the graphic elements to size (1:1 - 1440 x 1080) in Illustrator and Photoshop.
Thanks again.
Hi Andy! Great that it has been identified that
- Storyline project will be on tablets (and also desktop)
- Video/Image quality is high priority
- Concern is whether the file size of the video will cause loading difficulty
With these criteria, I will:
TRIAL
- Definitely do a trial test and preview for a couple of slides on the TABLET only, this will clear all my doubts for sure in terms of the display/clarity of the videos/images.
- However, just trialing for these couple of slides (with video), you won't be able to determine if the video size will affect the loading ability because it ain't the full Storyline project size and internet connection is also another factor on user's end.
VIDEO STREAMING PLATFORM
- For sure, if there are multiple of high quality video/images in this Storyline project, it is safer to say that it might cause a loading ability. Hence, I will consider to house the video in a reliable streaming platform and then embed the link within the Storyline project. This had to depend on the video content confidentiality and your comfort to stream from an external source.
DOWNSIZING
- Considering its mainly for TABLET users, I think it is fine with 4:3 ratio
- As we all know, high resolutions equates large file size. Considering this, I will consider to downsize the video to a resolution of either 800x600 or 960x720 to reduce the video file size. I believe either these two resolutions, the quality will not be compromised much.
4:3 aspect ratio resolutions: 640×480, 800×600, 960×720, 1024×768, 1280×960, 1400×1050, 1440×1080, 1600×1200, 1856×1392, 1920×1440, and 2048×1536.
OTHER CONSIDERATION
Maybe just another two-cents worth for your consideration on "hover" buttons (if you have):
- Hover button feature is not quite user-friendly for tablet users (as compared to desktop users). I will consider to have "click & show" buttons on both tablet/desktop Storyline project.
Hi Alvin
Thanks for your feedback. It's really helpful.
Re the 'click and show' button idea. Can you please explain that?
Hi Andy,
"Click and Show" means you click a "button" on the "base layer" and "show" a "layer" of information.
Once users finish reading the information on the "layer", there is a "close" button for them to return back to the "BASE" layer.
