Microsoft Forms offers a good way for teachers to create online quizzes and surveys. Over the last couple of years Microsoft has steadily added more and more features to it. File collection is the latest feature to be added to Microsoft Forms.
File collection in Microsoft Forms lets you create questions that students or parents respond to by uploading a file. Microsoft Forms supports the collection of audio, video, image, PPT, Excel, PDF, and Word files. You can specify the file type that you will accept as a response. You can also specify a maximum file size that you will accept through your form. I learned about this new feature through a Tweet from Mike Tholfsen. His Tweet including the demo video that is embedded below.
NEW! Microsoft Forms now supports attaching files to your response 🎉 Choose the number of files, size limit, & file type.This has been a top educator request 👂 that is rolling out globally 🌎 over the coming weeks. #edtech #MIEExpert #edchat #MicrosoftEDU
Video 👇 pic.twitter.com/Sq9C8s5hEN
— Mike Tholfsen (@mtholfsen) November 15, 2019
File upload is a new feature and is being rolled-out to Microsoft Forms users over the next few weeks.
Applications for Education
The file upload option could be a great way to collect samples of your students’ work in one place. This could be a great way to have students turn-in things like spoken responses to questions. Have them record with a simple tool like Vocaroo then upload their audio recordings to your Microsoft Form.
