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What file types can students submit?

Documents, slides, spreadsheets, notebooks, images and typed text. Viva reads the content, not just the filename.

790 reads

PDF, including scanned and image-only PDFs, which are read with OCR.
Word and plain text.
PowerPoint and slide decks.
Excel and CSV, with formulas read as well as values.
Jupyter notebooks, where code cells and their outputs are both read.
Audio and video recordings, transcribed automatically — see audio and video submissions.
Code files: Python, JavaScript, Java, C, SQL, R and about twenty more, read as source.
Apple iWork — Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Converted to PDF on our side, so the report highlights evidence on the document itself.
HWP (한글), saved as .hwpx.
Images of handwritten or drawn work.
Text typed straight into the submission box, with no file at all.

The older binary .doc, .ppt and .hwp cannot be read. Students should save as .docx, .pptx or .hwpx (or export to PDF) before uploading. The submission page rejects these with that instruction, so a student is never left guessing.

Viva builds questions from what it can actually read. A blurry photo of a whiteboard produces vaguer questions than a legible one.