Brightspace Support File Types

Summary

Accepted supported Files types, size and name format to use in Brightspace.

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The system recognizes several file types by default. These files open directly in the browser or an associated application.

PREFERRED BROWSERS: 

Updated version of Google Chrome, Firefox

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


FILE NAME:

Brightspace allows the use of all characters in file names.
However, a user's operating system and the browser may limit the types of characters accepted. 

File names should not include any special characters (ex. ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) + = | \ / ? “ ' : ; ~ `. )


FILE SIZE LIMITATIONS:

The maximum size permitted for uploading an individual file to Brightspace is 2GB.


RECOGNIZED ATTACHMENT FILE TYPES: 

TEXT:

NOTE: MAC users should not submit Pages document, this is not universal and does not open on a PC. Files should be exported to Word or PDF format.

DOC/DOCX (MS Word)

PDF

RTF

TXT

PPT

PPS

PPXT

XML

WPD

MEDIA (Video/Audio):

SWF

MPG

MPEG

RM

MP3

MP4

M4V

AVI

WAV

RAM

ASF

MOV

RA

 

GRAPHICS/IMAGES:

JPG/JPEG

GIF

PNG

BMP

TIFF, TIF

COMPRESSED PACKAGE:

ZIP

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Article ID: 118893
Created
Wed 10/21/20 2:03 PM
Modified
Mon 1/30/23 3:07 PM