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

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

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The file upload choice is now available in Google Forms!

Whether yous are a teacher who wants to collect students' homework assignments, a recruiter who needs to become all applicants' resumes, or a real estate agent who requires important information on a customer such as the ID carte du jour, you are all looking for the option to include a file upload button in your Google Form , then that your respondents can easily add documents to their class submission.

You might recall those darks days when you had to detect complicated workarounds to compensate for this missing feature (e.g. using Google Apps Script and adding some HTML code). 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' push into your Google Form !

Note: This file upload option is only bachelor for G Suite customers with a Google Class shared within their organization. EDIT : Since vii/x/2017, all users with a Google account (G Suite and Gmail) can now upload files to a Grade, and not only people from the same Thou Suite domain.

What does this new feature await similar?

Like any other type of question (brusk reply, multiple selection, date etc.) that is already bachelor in Google Forms, you will see a new entry chosen ' File upload '. As the class creator, all y'all demand to do is to add a new question, and select this selection in the listing:

In the 'File upload' parameters, you 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 computer or pick i available in their Drive :

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

For example, people can upload i resume and one cover alphabetic character (= 2 'File upload' questions) for a chore application on the same Google Grade:

Uploaded files storage and ownership transfer to Google Grade creator

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

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

A link to each file is also visible in this course responses tab, alongside the responses spreadsheet if you lot accept linked a Google Sail to your form:

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

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

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

    2. The ownership of this re-create is so automatically transferred to the class possessor

    3. The re-create is finally automatically added to the class owner's appropriate folder

Class Publisher + file upload

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

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

    • If the file is an image (png, jpg, gif) you can choose to insert information technology directly as an prototype in your document as explained in our article most image insertion .

Further updates volition come presently, and so stay tuned and go along an heart on our blog !