The University supports three different types of maps for classroom assignments: Virtual Tours, StoryMaps, and Interactive Images. Each type of map highlights different aspects of research building different skills. 

Virtual Tours 

A Virtual Tour guides users through a simulation of real world locations created by images, videos, and other multimedia elements. The multimedia elements promotes comparisons of a location overtime. Individual tour stops allow the creator to highlight specific locations and communicate the distance between them. 

Story Maps

Story Maps are interactive maps that highlight the spatial and narrative aspects of a topic. They do not simulate a specific location instead using them as a framing for a narrative. 

Interactive Images 

Mapping an image involves adding hotspots, clickable sections, to an image that provide information about or a close up of that section of the image. Any type of image can be mapped using this technology though it is most often used for artwork.