How to Send a Certificate of Attendance from Google Forms (2026)

To send a certificate of attendance from Google Forms, connect your sign-in or feedback form to the CertifyAll add-on and set the passing score to 0 — so everyone who submits gets certified. Each attendee then automatically receives a personalized certificate of attendance by email, with a copy saved to your Drive. It's the same workflow as a quiz certificate, minus the grade: perfect for webinars, workshops, conferences, and training sessions where presence — not a test score — is what you're recognizing.

Attendance vs completion certificates — one setting apart

An attendance (or participation) certificate recognizes that someone was there; a completion or achievement certificate recognizes that they passed something. In CertifyAll the only difference is the passing score:

So the same tool that runs quiz certificates issues attendance certificates — you just don't gate on a score.

The 4-step setup

1. Make the form attendees fill in. This can be a check-in form at the start, a post-event feedback survey, or a simple "confirm your attendance" form. Enable Collect email addresses so certificates can be delivered, and ask for the attendee's name.
2. Design the attendance certificate. In Google Slides, create a "Certificate of Attendance" with placeholders: {{name}}, the event name (or {{form_title}}), and {{date}}. Our Slides template guide covers the design, and our wording examples include attendance phrasing.
3. Connect CertifyAll with no score gate. Install CertifyAll, paste the Slides URL, map the placeholders, and leave the passing score at 0 — everyone who submits is certified.
4. Let attendees self-serve. Each submission triggers a personalized certificate of attendance by email, and a copy lands in your Drive as your record of who attended.

Making sure only real attendees get a certificate

Because there's no quiz gate, you control who qualifies by controlling who can complete the form. A few reliable approaches:

• Event passphrase. Announce a code during the session and make it a required form question. Only people who were present can answer it.
• Private link. Share the form link only with registrants — in the closing slide, the chat, or a follow-up email to the attendee list.
• Verified email collection. Restrict the form to your organization or registrant domain so submissions tie to known addresses.
• Feedback as the gate. Requiring a short feedback survey doubles as proof of engagement and gets you useful event data at the same time.

Webinars, workshops & conferences

• Webinars: drop the form link on the final slide and in the chat; attendees fill it in before leaving and get their certificate within minutes — while the session is still fresh.
• Workshops & training days: a check-in form at the door captures attendance; the certificate doubles as a professional-development record participants can keep.
• Conferences & CPD events: include a session code so the certificate reflects genuine attendance, useful where continuing-education credits require proof.

For graded sessions instead of attendance-only, see the quiz certificate guide; for the full range of methods, the pillar guide.

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