File types supported in course modules: overview

File types supported in course modules: overview


Intended Audience:  Administrators, Instructors


Summary

Use existing content in familiar file formats to build modules for your courses. This article is a quick reference for the file types and sizes you can upload for your courses.

Exams and surveys use question pools that you write within Safety Made Simple, using the rich text editor, and the question formats available. 

The library stores the content you create and upload, so you can reuse it in multiple courses. 

Text and image modules

You can upload the following file formats to text and image modules:

  • within a text and image module: JPEG and PNG files, less than 1MB
  • as document segments: Word, PowerPoint or PDF files, up to 100MB
  • as video segments: 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AVI, F4A, F4B, F4V, M4A, M4B, M4R, M4V, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGG, OGA, OGV, OGX, QT, VTT (video caption files), WMV. Files can be up to 1.5 GB (gigabytes), at a resolution of 1080p
  • as audio segments: 3GP, AAC, AC3, EC3, M4F, MJ2, MKV, MP3, MP4, MXF, OGG, TS, WEBM, WMV, WAV, up to 1.5 GB
Note: For PowerPoint files as a document module, the upload process strips out any slide transitions or animation effects. To keep the effects, you can convert the PowerPoint into a SCORM or Tin Can format, to upload as a SCORM or Tin Can module. Another option is to first save your PowerPoint as an MP4 video.

Assignments and Resources

For assignments and resources, you can upload any of the following formats:

  • audio: M4A, MP3, WAV
  • video: 3GP, 3GP2, 3G2, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AVI, F4A, F4V, FLV, M4A, M4B, M4R, M4V, MOV, MP4, MPEG,QT, WMA, WMV,  VTT (video caption files)
  • text: DOC, DOCX, PDF, RTF, TXT, DOT, DOTX, PAGES
  • spreadsheet: XLS, XLSX, ODF, XLT, XLTX, CSV, NUMBERS
  • image: GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, VSD
  • presentation: PPT, PPTX, POT, ODP, ODS, ODT, PPS, PPA, POTX, PUB, KEY

Maximum file size for assignments and resources is 500  MB per file.

For any file type not listed, you can compress (zip) the file to upload it to Safety Made Simple.

Compressed formats

Typically, you upload SCORM and Tin Can modules as ZIP files. You can upload the following compressed formats, up to 1.5Gb in size.

  • 7Z, RAR, TAR.GZ, TAR, ZIP, ZIPX 

 


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