Steps to Decrease Your Course Size

Brightspace

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In order to prevent potential problems in the future, it is recommended to clean your courses from time to time. Large courses can impact Brightspace performance over time and cause issues when completing course copies. Below you will find a few recommendations to decrease the size of your course without impacting your teaching.

Duplicate Content/Multiple Imported Content Folder

Check your course’s content collection for duplicate files and folders.

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Remove any duplicate files or folders, or
Create a new folder and re-link the course content items.

Video and Audio Files

Check if you have any video or audio files stored in your Brightspace course content.

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Migrate your videos to Panopto or the Media Library.

Video Assignments

If you required video assignment submissions in your course, the student submissions can make your course size to exceed your course size limit.

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Use the Panopto Student Video Submission tool for any video assignments required in your course.
Share these instructions with your students on how to submit a Panopto video assignment.

Large Files

Check your course’s content collection for large files and determine if these could be resized. Ex.
PDF Documents, Images, PowerPoints, etc.

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Reduce the file size by compressing files or reducing dimensions.
- Microsoft Office Files - Use the tools available in Microsoft Office to reduce file size for PowerPoint and Word files. The Reduce File Size option is located in the File menu. You can also save files as PDFs before uploading, which often makes smaller, read-only versions of the files.
- PowerPoint presentations - Save presentations as PDF files to reduce the size of large presentation files. Learn how to convert a presentation to PDF format.
- Images - Use a graphics program such as Photoshop to resize images for screen viewing before uploading.
- PDF’s - It is possible to reduce the size of your PDF files, without losing much in quality, using Adobe Acrobat Pro.
- Audio/Video - Use software to resample or trim audio/video files to reduce their size such as Audacity.

Unused Content

Review your course for content that is no longer used.

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Delete unused content from content areas and the content collection.

Add Files from Cloud Storage

To save some space in your course, you may add files to your course from Cloud Storage solutions such as OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox.

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Add files from Cloud Storage, such as Google Drive or OneDrive.

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