File: What kinds of documents can I upload to my course?
ANSWER:
Uploading just means putting your document up onto the course server or any Internet server. You can upload just about any file type; however, the type of document that you upload affects how your students can view it. If you upload documents that were created and saved in specific software programs (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.), your students will have to have that particular software installed on their computer to view the documents.
For example, if you upload a PowerPoint document (as a .ppt or .pps), your students will have to download the file and then open it in PowerPoint or the PowerPoint viewer. However, if you save your files as HTML and then upload them, the students can view the documents directly on screen from within the course.
WebCampus only supports the following MIME types:
| File Type | File Extension | MIME Type |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe® Portable Document Format | application/pdf | |
| Adobe Postscript® | ps | application/postscript |
| AOL Art Image | art | image/x-art |
| Apple® QuickTime® movie | movie | video/x-sgi-movie |
| Apple QuickTime video clip | mov, qt | video/quicktime |
| Audio Interchange File | aif, aifc, aiff | audio/x-aiff |
| Audio Video Interleave | avi | video/x-msvideo |
| Backup file | bak | application/octet-stream |
| Basic Audio | au | audio/basic |
| Bitmap Graphics | bmp | image/bmp |
| Calendar file | ics | text/calendar |
| Cascading Style Sheet | css | text/css |
| Comma-Separated Variables | csv | text/csv |
| Corel® Presentations™ | shw | applications/presentations |
| Encapsulated Postscript | eps | application/postscript |
| Executable | exe | application/octet-stream |
| Extensible Markup Language | xml | text/xml |
| Extensible Style Sheets | xsl | text/sxl |
| Graphic Interchange Format | gif | image/gif |
| Hypertext Markup Language | htm, html | text/html |
| HyperText Template | htt | text/html |
| Java | java | text/plain |
| Java Class | class | application/octet-stream |
| JavaScript™ | js | application/x-javascript |
| Java Server Pages | jsp | text/html |
| Joint Photographic Experts Group | jpg, jpe, jpeg | image/jpeg |
| Log File | log | text/plain |
| Macromedia® Director® | dir, dcr, dxr | application/x-director |
| Macromedia Flash® | fla | application/x-shockwave-flash |
| Macromedia Shockwave® Flash | swf | application/x-shockwave-flash |
| Microsoft® Access | mdb | application/x-msaccess |
| Microsoft Excel | xls, xlt | application/vnd.ms-excel |
| Microsoft HTML | mht | text/mht |
| Microsoft Outlook® | eml | message/rfc822 |
| Microsoft PowerPoint® | ppt, pot | application/vnd.ms-powerpoint |
| Microsoft Project | mpp, mpt, mpx | application/vnd.ms-project |
| Microsoft Word | doc, dot | application/msword |
| Microsoft Works | msw | application/x-msworks-wp |
| Moving Pictures Experts Group | mpg, mpe, mpeg | video/mpg |
| Moving Pictures Experts Group Audio | mpga, mp2, mp3 | audio/mpeg |
| Musical Instrumental Digital Interface | mid, midi | audio/midi |
| PC Paintbrush Bitmap Graphic | pcx | appliation/x-pc-paintbrush |
| Portable (Public) Network Graphic | png | image/png |
| Properties (Java) | properties | text/plain |
| RealAudio® | ra, ram, rm | audio/x-realaudio |
| RealPlayer® Plug-In | rpm | audio/pn-realaudio-plugin |
| RealVideo® | rv | audio/x-realvideo |
| Rich Text Document | rtx | text/richtext |
| Rich Text Format | rtf | application/rtf |
| Shell (Unix) | sh | text/plain |
| Sound | snd, au, ulaw | audio/basic |
| Standard Generalized Markup Language | sgml, sgm | text/sgml |
| Tab-Separated Values | tsv | text/tab-separated-values |
| Tagged Image Format File | tif, tiff | image/tiff |
| Text | txt, asc | text/plain |
| Uniform Resource Locator | url | text/plain |
| Unknown Binary | bin | application/octet-stream |
| Virtual Reality Modeling Language | vrml, wrl | x-world/x-vrml |
| Waveform Audio | wav | audio/x-wave |
| WebCT e-Pack | epk | application/octet-stream |
| WebCT file | wct | application/octet-stream |
| Windows Advanced Systems Format | asf, asx | video/x-ms-video |
| WordPerfect® | wpg, wpd | application/wordperfect5.1 |
| StuffIt™ Compressed Archive | sit | application/x-stuffit |
| Zip Compressed Archive | zip | application/x-zip-compressed |
If you have any further questions, please contact us for support. Thank you.
- WebCampus Support