Course Banner - Size Recommendations

Who is this guide for?

Designers, Administrators

What does this guide help with?

This guide will cover the recommendations from Blackboard on the image size recommendations and best practices for course banners and images. 

Course Banner

Administrators can upload an image to be the course banner inside courses in Learn. The course banner also appears in the grid view of the Courses page of Learn’s base navigation. At USAHS, course banners come from the Master course and cannot be edited by instructors without first submitting a master maintenance request.

Size Recommendations and Tips

• Images with text don't scale well.
• For banners, the recommended visible width ranges from 950 to 1200 pixels. The recommended visible height ranges from 150 to 240 pixels.
• For course cards, the recommended visible height is a constant 240 pixels. The visible width ranges from 550 to 1100 pixels.
• Keep the main content within the center, at 550 x 150 pixels of a 1200 x 240 pixels banner, to guarantee its visibility. Anything outside that 550 x 150 central pixel area may be cropped out at various screen sizes for either the course card or the banner.
• Abstract images or an image with a focus at the center work better for a banner, due to cropping variability.