iTunes U for web supported media types
Using iTunes U you can add a variety of materials to your courses and My Materials Library. Adding materials can help you enhance your course information by providing your students with additional reading materials, examples, homework worksheets, artwork, audio and video content, and so on. Apple hosts the content you upload on Apple servers.
Keep in mind that your content is available on iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch) and to a broad worldwide audience with varying server bandwidth and performance. To ensure a good experience, consider appropriate file size and compression when encoding your content.
iTunes U does not support DRM content you upload as a file from your computer. You must have digital rights to all content you upload.
For uploaded materials and post images, the maximum file size is 2 GB.
Note: Avoid uploading files with filenames containing UTF-8, unsafe, and reserved URL characters. See RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators (URL).
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 | Audio | A file from your computer or an iTunes Store link. | Must have appropriate file extensions (mp3, m4a). | ||||||||
 | Video | A file from your computer or an iTunes Store link. | Must have appropriate file extensions (mp4, m4v, mov). Note: When displaying a video material in your My Materials Library or a course Materials pane, iTunes U creates a thumbnail image for the video from the image displayed 11 seconds into the video file. | ||||||||
 | Books | A file from your computer or an iTunes Store link. | Must have appropriate file extensions (epub, ibooks). Electronic publication (EPUB) files must pass ePubCheck 1.0.5, include only files listed in the manifest, and use UTF-8/16 characters. Read the complete EPUB specification at http://www.idpf.org/specs.htm. | ||||||||
 | Documents | A file from your computer or an iTunes Store link. | Must have appropriate file extensions: key, pages, numbers, pdf, rtf, doc, ppt, xls, txt, docx, xlsx, pptx, note, xpl and explain (iOS only), playground and playgroundbook (iOS only). Keynote (key) files must be ’09, version 5 or later. Pages (pages) files must be ’09, version 4 or later. Numbers (numbers) files must be ’09, version 2 or later. iWork for iCloud package documents must have appropriate file extensions: pages.zip, numbers.zip, key.zip. | ||||||||
 | Apps | An iTunes Store link only. |
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 | Images | A file from your computer. | Must have appropriate file extensions (png, jpg). Note: iTunes U supports images embedded in items in PNG or JPEG format in RGB Color Model. JPEG images can include EXIF or JFIF, but not both. | ||||||||
 | Web Links | A web URL. | iTunes U supports the following link types: iTunes Store links, Web links, Feed links. See Find a Store link in iTunes U for web. If you enter an iTunes Store link that is not currently available in your country, is not a supported material type, or that iTunes U cannot access, iTunes U displays the equivalent web URL link so you can add the material as a web link instead. If your course materials are in an RSS feed or Atom feed, you can add the feed to iTunes U. When you add and subscribe to the feed, iTunes U adds all materials currently in the feed and, as new materials are added to the feed, iTunes U automatically adds the new materials to your course. | ||||||||
Store material | An iTunes Store link only. | iTunes U supports individual songs, movies, and TV shows and individual materials, items, or episodes from a course or podcast. However, iTunes U does not support the following Store materials: Mac apps, podcasts, music albums, movie series, movie rentals, TV show series, and TV show rentals. | |||||||||