Need candidates to submit a portfolio, a short video, or some code? File upload questions make it easy to collect exactly what you need—right within your assessment. In this guide, you’ll learn how to add file upload questions, define accepted file types, and review submitted files. Let’s dive in!
Adding a file upload question
To add a file upload question to your assessment, simply hit ‘Add file upload question‘ in the assessment builder.
Next you can set a question text, incl. all markdown features we support.
You can define allowed type files using the four quick select options (Documents, Images, Videos, Audio, Code) and/or specify the file types you want to allow yourself. Note that all file types will be allowed if you provide no option/input.
Additionally, you can allow multiple file submission per question.
As all other custom question types, file upload questions can be made required.
Submitting files [candidates]
Candidates submit the files you allowed in their assessment.
Reviewing upload question results
To review files submitted by candidates, simply navigate to the candidate's assessment results and download the respective files.
Supported file types
Documents and Text
PDF
RTF
Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)
TXT (plain text)
CSV or TSV (spreadsheet formats)
HTML, XML (structured text)
Videos
MP4
MOV
WebM
AVI
MKV
FLV
WMV
Images
JPG, JPEG
PNG
GIF
BMP
WebP
SVG
TIFF
ICO
Audio
MP3
WAV
OGG
FLAC
AAC
M4A
WMA
File size limits
Images over 20 MiB
Videos over 2 GiB
Audio files over 500 MiB
Documents over 50 MiB