Unfortunately, Blackboard is not a streaming server and media files will degrade system performance. Media files include:
Audio (mp3, mp4, wav, aiff, flac)
Video (wmv, avi, mp4, m4v, mov, mpv, mkv, mpg, mpeg, camrec, vob)
Interactive (swf, flv)
Further, an audit of our current Blackboard site revealed other files are using outdated formats or are simply too large for dissemination to students. The cloud infrastructure will not support file uploads larger than 500 MB.
Affected file types may include audio, video, and interactive listed above as well as:
Image (tif/tiff, bmp, jpg, xif, heif, psd, svg, eps)
Narrated or media-rich PowerPoint (ppt, pptx, pps, ppm, ppsx, key)
Documents (pdf, doc, docx, rtf, ibooks, xls, xlsx, csv)
Computer executables (iso, exe)
Compressed files (zip, rar, tar.gz, bz2)
Classroom tools (mat, prs, pcapng)
Moving Your Media Content
- First, download your media files from the Bb Content Collection and delete them from your course
- Next, migrate your multimedia (videos & audio) to Panopto upload your large files to Box where you have unlimited content
- Finally, restore the content to your Blackboard course by adding
- a link to an individual file from Box or Panopto
- a link to a folder of files from Box or folder of videos in Panopto