Cursus Sup: The Most Common File Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

Cursus Sup is the shared application portal for a huge number of Moroccan higher-education programs, which means it also handles an enormous volume of uploads — and its file requirements trip people up constantly, usually for reasons that have nothing to do with the content of the dossier itself.

Mistake 1: Uploading the photo at full camera resolution

Your ID photo for Cursus Sup needs to be small — well under the portal's stated limit, not "a nice clear photo." A modern phone camera photo is routinely 3–5 MB; the portal wants a small fraction of that. Compress it to the right size instead of uploading straight from your camera roll.

Mistake 2: One giant PDF instead of separate documents

Cursus Sup, like most portals of this kind, expects each document type (diploma, transcript, ID) as its own file in its own upload slot — not merged into a single mega-PDF. If you scanned everything into one file "to save time," split it back into individual pieces before uploading.

Mistake 3: Scanned diploma that's way over the size limit

Diploma and transcript PDFs from a phone scanning app frequently land at 8–15 MB for a document that should be under 2 MB. Compress the PDF to the portal's stated cap — this is almost always a size problem, not a quality problem, and a proper compressor keeps the text perfectly legible while cutting the file down.

Mistake 4: Re-using an old photo that no longer matches your CIN

This isn't a file-format issue, but it's the second most common rejection reason after file size — an outdated or informal photo. Worth a fresh, recent photo against a plain background before you spend time perfecting the file size.

Before you submit, check:

• [ ] Is each document its own file, not merged with others?
• [ ] Is every file under the size limit the portal states (not just "seems small")?
• [ ] Is the photo recent and against a plain background?
• [ ] Did you open every file after processing it, to confirm it still looks right?

All of the compression and file prep above works entirely in your browser, so you can go from "camera roll" to "ready to upload" in under a minute without sending anything to a third-party server.