Google Forms: All you should know virtually the new file upload feature

Post date: Oct 19, 2016 9:15:56 AM

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The file upload pick is now available in Google Forms!

Whether you are a teacher who wants to collect students' homework assignments, a recruiter who needs to get all applicants' resumes, or a real manor agent who requires of import information on a client such equally the ID carte, yous are all looking for the option to include a file upload button in your Google Form , so that your respondents tin easily add together documents to their grade submission.

You might recall those darks days when you had to discover complicated workarounds to recoup for this missing characteristic (e.yard. using Google Apps Script and adding some HTML lawmaking). This now belongs in the past!

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

Note: This file upload option is only available for K Suite customers with a Google Class shared within their organization. EDIT : Since 7/10/2017, all users with a Google account (G Suite and Gmail) can at present upload files to a Form, and not merely people from the same G Suite domain.

What does this new characteristic look like?

Like whatsoever other type of question (curt answer, multiple choice, date etc.) that is already available in Google Forms, you will run into a new entry called ' File upload '. Equally the grade creator, all you need to do is to add a new question, and select this pick in the list:

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

Once the push button is added, your respondents volition exist able to upload their file to the course submission from the Docs picker. They can either upload a file from their computer or option one available in their Drive :

Note: For the moment, respondents are non immune to upload a whole folder. They can only upload a unique file for each 'File upload' item in your grade (simply you tin have more than than one 'File upload' item in your form).

For instance, people tin upload one resume and ane embrace alphabetic character (= ii 'File upload' questions) for a chore application on the aforementioned Google Form:

Uploaded files storage and ownership transfer to Google Grade creator

For each 'File upload' particular inserted in your course, a Drive binder is automatically created . By default, it reuses your form question as the binder title :

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

A link to each file is likewise visible in this grade responses tab, aslope the responses spreadsheet if you take linked a Google Sheet to your class:

If a respondent decides to upload a file directly from his Drive, a copy will exist made and the form owner will become owner of the copy . Yous will be able to track this whole process in the contempo 'Activity' sidebar of your Google Drive.

The procedure of the uploaded file ownership transfer works every bit follows :

    1. A re-create of the file is uploaded to the Google Class by a respondent

    2. The ownership of this copy is then automatically transferred to the form owner

    3. The copy is finally automatically added to the form possessor's appropriate folder

Class Publisher + file upload

Form Publisher lets yous cull betwixt ii options for your file upload questions:

    • You tin can choose to insert the link to the uploaded file in your document, run into the commodity about link insertion on our documentation.

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

Further updates will come up shortly, so stay tuned and keep an middle on our blog !