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

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

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The file upload pick is now bachelor 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 estate agent who requires important information on a client such equally the ID card, yous are all looking for the option to include a file upload button in your Google Class , so that your respondents can easily add together documents to their form 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 button into your Google Form !

Note: This file upload selection is only available for Yard Suite customers with a Google Form shared within their organization. EDIT : Since 7/ten/2017, all users with a Google business relationship (G Suite and Gmail) can at present upload files to a Course, and not only people from the same G Suite domain.

What does this new feature expect similar?

Like any other type of question (short answer, multiple choice, engagement etc.) that is already available in Google Forms, y'all volition see a new entry chosen ' File upload '. As the form creator, all yous demand to practice is to add a new question, and select this option in the list:

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

Once the push button is added, your respondents will be able to upload their file to the form submission from the Docs picker. They tin can either upload a file from their computer or pick i bachelor in their Drive :

Note: For the moment, respondents are not allowed to upload a whole binder. They tin can only upload a unique file for each 'File upload' item in your form (but you tin have more than 1 'File upload' item in your grade).

For example, people can upload one resume and 1 cover letter of the alphabet (= ii 'File upload' questions) for a job awarding on the aforementioned Google Grade:

Uploaded files storage and ownership transfer to Google Form creator

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

Yous tin can remember this binder past going to the 'RESPONSES' tab of your Google Form, and clicking ' VIEW FOLDER ':

A link to each file is also visible in this form responses tab, aslope the responses spreadsheet if you have linked a Google Canvass to your course:

If a respondent decides to upload a file directly from his Bulldoze, a copy volition be made and the course owner will go owner of the copy . You will be able to track this whole process in the contempo 'Activeness' sidebar of your Google Drive.

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

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

    2. The buying of this copy is then automatically transferred to the form possessor

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

Form Publisher + file upload

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

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

    • If the file is an image (png, jpg, gif) yous can choose to insert information technology direct as an paradigm in your document as explained in our article near epitome insertion .

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