On the Assignment Submission page, supported file types open in the browser.
Supported File Types
You can view and annotate these document types in the browser:
Microsoft® Word (DOC, DOCX)
Microsoft® PowerPoint®(PPT, PPTX)
Microsoft® Excel®(XLS, XLSX)
OpenOffice® Documents (ODS, ODT, ODP)
Digital Images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIF, TIFF, TGA, BMP, HEIC)
Source code (Java, PY, C, CPP, etc)
Medical Images (DICOM, DICM, DCM)
PDF
PSD
RTF
TXT
WPD
Office Suite Macros, such as Visual Basic, aren't supported.
Animated gifs display only the first frame in the pdf viewer for annotation purposes. Download the submission to view the animated gif.
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