Sometimes you have an event where voting needs to be restricted to those in the room. Maybe you’re conducting a contest or offering other incentives to participants. The best way to control who participates is to use the Registered Participants feature. Here’s an easy way to quickly register participants the day of the event.

IMPORTANT: Make sure to restrict your polls to only allow response from registered participants. You can do this under a poll’s “edit” menu by selecting “only registered participants” under the “Who Can Respond” menu.

We’re going to create a CSV spreadsheet file with our participant information. So, we can use the import tool to quickly register participants en masse. (More info here)

To make this as painless as possible we’re going to use a Google Form to quickly create our spreadsheet. Here is a sample Google Form we’ve created to demonstrate this:

Voting/Evaluation Check In

You can set this up at check in for attendees to fill out on their own or have a team member fill it out for them as participants enter the venue.

Keep in mind when completing this attendees do not necessarily need to provide accurate information when it comes to names or email addresses (if they want to remain anonymous). However, an accurate phone number is required if they will be voting via text message, and they’ll need to remember the email address and password they give in order to log in and vote via a web enabled device.

If you’re conscious about security and don’t want people to set a password through a Google form, that’s fine. You can also set up your registration kiosk to use your account’s registration link. Just remember that they need to logout before you register the next person.