Attendee
Identify who is registering.
Collect enough work identity to communicate and understand the audience.
- Name and work email.
- Department, team, role, or office.
- Manager or cost center only when needed.
Describe your talks, dates, rooms, and menu. Makeform turns the brief into a sign-up form for employee details, session choices, dietary needs, accessibility requests, and reminders.
Route registrations to Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a starting point, edit its details, and send the prompt to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Employees choosing among recurring sessions
Format
Session picker with meal preferences
Prompt size
334 chars
Example form structure
Session picker with meal preferences
Name, work email, and department
Which session will you attend?
In person or remote?
Dietary restrictions or allergies
Question for the speaker
Suggested routing tags
Registered
Waitlist
Meal follow-up
Ask employees to choose a session before showing meal questions; that keeps the form short and makes headcounts useful.
Step 1
Publish
share the topic, speaker, time, and venue
Step 2
Register
capture session, meal, and access needs
Step 3
Prepare
send headcounts and questions to organizers
Step 4
Attend
remind guests and record the final roster
A cleaner sign-up
One form keeps the caterer's count, room capacity, and remote-attendance details together.
Collect identity, attendance mode, and session choices in consistent fields instead of email replies.
Show meal questions to in-person guests and remote-access questions to online guests, keeping each registration concise.
Notify the coordinator when someone registers, route dietary notes carefully, and keep the working roster available to the event team.
Built for workplace learning
Use one form for a guest talk or let employees select dates in a recurring program.
Collect team and role details so the organizer can understand who is coming and tailor examples to the audience.
Ask about experience, devices, software access, and learning goals before a practical training session.
Invite advance questions, including an anonymous option, and give the speaker themes to prepare for.
Route attendees by location and mode so room, catering, time-zone, and meeting-link details stay accurate.
Registration workflow
Start with capacity, food, and delivery decisions, then publish one link for employees.
Provide topics, speakers, dates, attendance modes, room limits, meal options, and the employee details your coordinator needs.
Edit choices, require essential fields, and show each attendee only relevant questions.
Share the public form link in email, Slack, an intranet post, or the initial calendar notice so replies land in one place.
Send the roster to Google Sheets, notify the organizer, group meal needs, and use session choices to plan rooms and materials.
Form vs email vs spreadsheet
Keep attendance, food, access, and cancellations aligned as employees respond.
Field guide
Collect details only when they affect the session. These six groups create an organizer-ready plan.
Attendee
Collect enough work identity to communicate and understand the audience.
Session
List topic, speaker, date, time zone, and location together. Use choices instead of free text.
Capacity
Ask for one response per attendee, explain cancellations, and offer a waitlist when space is tight.
Food
Show defined meal choices to in-person guests, plus a field for needs the menu does not cover.
Participation
Optional learning goals and advance questions reveal audience priorities without blocking registration.
Access and reminders
Collect accommodation requests respectfully, then offer calendar and reminder messages.
Related tools
Pair registration with event planning, feedback, training, and RSVP forms.
Create a broader attendee sign-up for internal or public events.
Open toolCollect participant details and workshop selections for practical sessions.
Open toolAsk attendees what was useful and what the next session should improve.
Open toolGather stakeholder requirements before dates, rooms, and formats are set.
Open toolCapture training participation and employee learning details.
Open toolFAQ
Answers for teams coordinating workplace sessions.
It is an online sign-up for a workplace learning session. Responses can include employee contact information, session choice, attendance mode, meal needs, accommodations, and speaker questions.
Start with name, work email, department, session, and attendance mode. Add meal, accessibility, experience, or speaker-question fields when they affect planning. Show the topic, speaker, time zone, venue, and duration before registration.
Yes. Present each session with its topic, speaker, date, and location. Allow one choice, multiple choices, or ranked choices, then show questions relevant to the selected session or office.
State the seat limit, offer a waitlist or alternate date, and explain how to cancel. If automatic capacity enforcement matters, verify it in the published workflow before relying on it.
Ask in-person guests about meals, separating preferences from allergies. Provide a private field for accessibility accommodations, restrict internal access, and contact the attendee if clarification is needed.
Yes. Ask for attendance mode first. Show room and lunch questions to in-person employees, and time-zone and meeting-access details to remote employees.
Responses arrive in Makeform and can route to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier. Use the roster for rooms, catering, materials, and reminders. Exclude sensitive notes from broad notifications.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses. You can generate, edit, publish, and reuse the registration form on the unlimited free plan; the paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Plan the talk and the lunch from one roster.