Answers · Submitting work

What file types can I submit?

Documents, slides, spreadsheets, notebooks, images, or text typed straight in.

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  • PDF, including scans and photos of handwritten work.
  • Word documents and plain text.
  • PowerPoint and slide decks.
  • Excel and CSV files.
  • Jupyter notebooks.
  • Code files: Python, JavaScript, Java, C, SQL, R and about twenty more.
  • Apple iWork: Pages, Numbers and Keynote files.
  • HWP (한글) files saved as .hwpx.
  • Images.
  • Audio and video recordings (.mp3, .mp4, .m4a, .mov, .webm, .wav), for example a narrated screen recording of your project. Viva transcribes the audio and the interview asks about what you said.

Older .doc, .ppt and .hwp files cannot be read. Save them as .docx, .pptx or .hwpx (or export to PDF) and upload that instead.

Up to 10 files per submission. Documents up to 100 MB each, images up to 20 MB, and recordings up to 500 MB. If a document is bigger, a PDF export is usually the easiest way under the limit.

Attaching more than one file

Viva reads everything you attach as one piece of work and the conversation asks about each file, so attach the essay and the spreadsheet behind it, but leave out anything that is not part of the work. There is no main file to pick.

  • Or nothing at all, just type your work into the box.

Make sure your file is readable. If you photograph handwritten work, a clear, well-lit photo gets you better questions than a dark, angled one.

This is one page of the documentation inside Viva.

Instructors get the rest: the walkthroughs, the screenshots, and Ask Viva, which finds the right page from a typed question.