Blackboard Assignment file types for annotation

Owned by Erin Warner
Last updated: Jul 06, 2023
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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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