Syllabus upload error

In CourseSchedule2, when uploading your class syllabus you receive the error:
/apps/CourseSchedule2/default.aspx?Term=W26&Title=&Page=1&pSort=CourseName&dSort=Ascending&Teacher=firstname+lastname&Departments=&Credits=&MeetingDays=&MeetingStart=&GeneralEd=&Writing=&ServiceLearning=&CourseSubLevel=&Location=&HideFull=&TopicCode=&XList=false&c=1
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
HttpException
Maximum request length exceeded. at System.Web.HttpRequest.GetEntireRawContent() at System.Web.HttpRequest.GetMultipartContent() at System.Web.HttpRequest.FillInFormCollection() at System.Web.HttpRequest.EnsureForm() at System.Web.HttpRequest.get_Form() at System.Web.HttpRequest.get_HasForm() at System.Web.UI.Page.GetCollectionBasedOnMethod(Boolean dontReturnNull) at System.Web.UI.Page.DeterminePostBackMode() at System.Web.UI.Page.

The real error message is bold and underlined above.

The syllabus file size is larger than 4mb (4096kb).  You may have hi-resolution images in your syllabus which should have their density and/or their resolution reduced, thus making the file smaller.

You can use an Adobe online service to compress your PDF.


Creation date: 1/12/2026 9:27 AM (rsmiller@southern.edu)      Updated: 1/12/2026 9:27 AM
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