If you’ve ever been working with a file and it was too large to share with your students in your course, within limits you can increase the upload max to allow larger files. This quick video by Nick Shay demonstrates where to find the setting in your course administration: (direct video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLa0eJUV6Ic)
If you’re an administrator this can also be set at the site level by default (and increased by default). Here are Moodle docs that describe the setting on your site admin and at the server level
- Site admin file size settings https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Site_policies#Maximum_uploaded_file_size
- Server settings https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/File_upload_size#Physical_access_to_Server
