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Hi Mila,

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Thank you for your suggestion to use Google Forms. We are looking to create a registration form, on which people indicate their personal data including their email address. To be able to complete a Google Form with a question relating to people’s e-mail address, they have to log into Google first. Apparently this is an anti-phishing measure. Now…

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Asking people to log in to Google is a major obstacle for our target group in Central Africa. This week we asked participants to do group exercises on Google Sheets, and only half of them managed to sign in to these sheets. Fortunately we had already built that in to the exercise, by suggesting that one of the group members who did manage to open the Google Sheet share their screen.

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One reason why people may not manage to sign in to Google is that they do not have a Gmail account (yes there are also other reasons). In principle, we could of course ask people to create a Gmail account before the event. However, given that participants are not aware of the importance of the event before it happens (the awareness building happens during the event), this additional requirement might keep them from participating altogether.

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This is the reason why I wrote in my original question: use of Google Forms is out of the question.

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Let me rephrase my central question:

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How to make sure that only registered people participate? Zoom’s registration function is designed in such a way that our target group will not find the link to the workshop that is buried in the very long and confusing automatic confirmation e-mail.

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Thank you!

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Pete