Google Forms: All y'all should know about the new file upload feature

Post date: Oct 19, 2016 nine:15:56 AM

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The file upload option is now available in Google Forms!

Whether you are a instructor who wants to collect students' homework assignments, a recruiter who needs to go all applicants' resumes, or a real manor amanuensis who requires of import information on a client such equally the ID card, you are all looking for the option to include a file upload button in your Google Class , and so that your respondents can hands add together documents to their grade submission.

Y'all might recall those darks days when you had to find complicated workarounds to compensate for this missing feature (e.thou. using Google Apps Script and adding some HTML code). This at present belongs in the past!

To address this growing demand, Google has released a bunch of new features , which include the highly anticipated 'file upload' button into your Google Course !

Notation: This file upload option is simply bachelor for Grand Suite customers with a Google Class shared inside their organisation. EDIT : Since 7/10/2017, all users with a Google account (Chiliad Suite and Gmail) can at present upload files to a Course, and non only people from the same G Suite domain.

What does this new feature look like?

Like whatever other blazon of question (brusque answer, multiple choice, appointment etc.) that is already bachelor in Google Forms, you will meet a new entry called ' File upload '. As the course creator, all you demand to practise is to add together a new question, and select this option in the listing:

In the 'File upload' parameters, yous can indicate the maximum file size (from 1 MB to 10 GB) and select which file types are allowed:

In one case the button is added, your respondents volition be able to upload their file to the form submission from the Docs picker. They can either upload a file from their reckoner or option ane available in their Drive :

Notation: For the moment, respondents are not allowed to upload a whole binder. They can only upload a unique file for each 'File upload' particular in your form (but you lot tin have more than than one 'File upload' item in your form).

For case, people can upload one resume and ane cover letter (= 2 'File upload' questions) for a job awarding on the aforementioned Google Form:

Uploaded files storage and ownership transfer to Google Class creator

For each 'File upload' item inserted in your course, a Drive binder is automatically created . By default, it reuses your class question every bit the binder title :

You can retrieve this folder past going to the 'RESPONSES' tab of your Google Form, and clicking ' VIEW FOLDER ':

A link to each file is besides visible in this form responses tab, alongside the responses spreadsheet if yous accept linked a Google Canvas to your form:

If a respondent decides to upload a file directly from his Drive, a re-create will be made and the form owner will get owner of the re-create . You will be able to rails this whole process in the contempo 'Activity' sidebar of your Google Drive.

The process of the uploaded file ownership transfer works as follows :

    1. A copy of the file is uploaded to the Google Form by a respondent

    2. The ownership of this copy is so automatically transferred to the form possessor

    3. The copy is finally automatically added to the form owner'southward appropriate folder

Form Publisher + file upload

Grade Publisher lets yous choose between two options for your file upload questions:

    • You can choose to insert the link to the uploaded file in your document, see the article about link insertion on our documentation.

    • If the file is an epitome (png, jpg, gif) you can cull to insert it directly as an image in your document as explained in our commodity about image insertion .

Farther updates volition come presently, so stay tuned and go along an eye on our weblog !