How do I set up the Google Meet attendance tracker?

Install Attendance Tracker from the official Google Workspace Marketplace in 30 seconds. Join any Google Meet call, click the Activities icon (bottom-right shapes icon), select Attendance Tracker, and click Start. It automatically logs participant join times, leave times, late arrivals, and total duration in real time.

Is Attendance Tracker for Google Meet free, and what does Pro cost?

Yes. The Free Forever tier includes real-time side-panel attendance tracking and 2 free exports per month across Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel (.xlsx) for classes up to 25 attendees (plus 1 large-class grace export). Optional paid plans are $4.99–$14.99/year for the Educator Pass, $29/year for Pro Annual, $9.99–$29 one-time for Individual Lifetime (nothing to cancel), $59/year for a Department domain, and $149/year for a whole-school Institution domain.

Does it work with my Google account (personal Gmail, Education Fundamentals, or Workspace)?

Yes. Unlike Google's built-in attendance report (which requires paid Google Workspace Education Plus or Teaching & Learning Upgrade licenses), Attendance Tracker works on every Google account tier: 100% free personal @gmail.com accounts, Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Business Starter/Standard/Plus, Enterprise, and managed school Chromebooks.

What permissions does Attendance Tracker request, and is it FERPA/COPPA safe?

Attendance Tracker uses narrow, Google-verified OAuth scopes: drive.file (which only accesses attendance spreadsheets created by the app itself, never your other Google Drive files), meetings.space.readonly (to read participant join/leave events), calendar.readonly (to match scheduled start times and invitees), and optional classroom.rosters.readonly. It never accesses audio, video, chat messages, or browsing history, and encrypts tokens at rest with AES-256-GCM.

How accurate is Attendance Tracker when students disconnect and rejoin?

Because Attendance Tracker reads Google's official Meet REST API rather than scraping browser HTML, it accurately merges multiple join and leave intervals when a student's Wi-Fi drops and reconnects into a single cumulative duration. It also offers Attendee Self-Check-In ('I'm here') so students on mobile devices or generic display names like 'iPhone' verify their real Google identity.

What export formats are supported (Google Sheets, Excel, CSV, Canvas, Moodle)?

You can export in one click to formatted, multi-tab Google Sheets in your Google Drive (with automatic attendance percentages and semester summary tabs), download CSV or native binary Excel (.xlsx) files, export import-ready Canvas LMS and Moodle (mod_attendance) gradebook CSVs, sync grades directly to Google Classroom and Canvas, or generate verifiable PDF attendance certificates.

Attendance Tracker for Google Meet — Free Add-on, Export to Sheets

Take attendance in Google Meet automatically.

A live roster in your Meet side panel: who joined, who's late, who left, and for how long. One click sends a clean report to Google Sheets or CSV.

✓ Free to start ✓ $9.99 once for unlimited ✓ Nothing to cancel

Everything else you'd want

Late arrivals and no-shows

Matched to your Google Calendar invite. Mark excused absences in one tap.

Google Classroom import

Your class list in one click.

Moodle and Canvas gradebooks

Import-ready CSVs per session or for the whole semester.

Semester and sprint trends

Attendance % and streaks across every recurring session.

Meeting history

Every tracked meeting saved. Open, share or export from any device.

Verifiable certificates

Each carries a public code anyone can check at /verify.

Slack, Chat, Discord and Gmail digests

A summary card after every meeting.

60 languages

Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Arabic and more.

One tool, four kinds of roll-call

Education

Teachers & trainers

Stop scanning the participant list by hand. Import your Google Classroom roster and get automatic roll-call for every class.

Events

Webinar hosts

Know exactly who attended and how long they stayed. Export to Sheets for certificates and follow-up.

Teams

Team leads

Track standup and meeting participation across recurring calls, with digests to Slack, Google Chat or Discord.

Tutoring

Tutors & coaches

Minute-by-minute session logs that back up billable hours, even for one-on-one calls.

What real educators & hosts say

Every review below is published verbatim from authenticated users on the official Google Workspace Marketplace—highlighting the exact attendance problem solved. Teachers use Attendance Tracker to record Google Meet attendance, reduce manual roll calls, and export organized attendance records to Google Sheets.

Outcome: Attendance accuracy & 1-click Google Sheets export

★★★★★

“Wow! This app is exactly what I was looking for (and more). It was obviously very well thought out. It works amazingly well by letting me know who actually shows up to our Google Meet sessions, and how long they stay. I no longer need to be distracted by having to monitor who comes and goes. The Attendance Tracker app handles that right out of the box. The one-click save to Google Sheets makes attendance record keeping a breeze. 5 stars for sure.”

Outcome: Google Sheets & Google Classroom workflow integration

★★★★★

“Google Attendance Tracker is a reliable and straightforward tool that makes monitoring daily check-ins effortless for educators and team leaders. Because of its seamless integration with Google Workspace, it connects smoothly with tools like Google Sheets and Google Classroom, which significantly cuts down on manual data entry errors and saves valuable time. Its cloud-based setup also allows you to access and check attendance records from anywhere. While it lacks advanced features like automated alerts for chronic absenteeism or deep analytical reporting, it remains a practical, no-fuss solution for anyone already using the Google ecosystem. Overall, it is an efficient and user-friendly choice for everyday attendance management.”

Outcome: Time saved in online classes & meetings

★★★★★

“Excellent extension! Attendance Tracker makes taking attendance in Google Meet so much easier and more convenient. It saves time, reduces manual work, and helps keep attendance records organized. The automatic attendance tracking is especially useful for online classes and meetings. Highly recommended!”

Outcome: Ease of use & Present, Absent, or Late visibility

★★★★★

“This attendance tracker for Google Meet makes it much easier to keep attendance records organized in one single place. Adding and updating attendance is straightforward, and the layout makes it easy to quickly see who was present, absent, or late.”

Outcome: Classroom attendance control & student statistics

★★★★★

“Me ha encantado, excelente herramienta para control de asistencia y en general la estadistica de mis alumnos en clase!” (English translation: “I loved it, an excellent tool for attendance control and overall statistics for my students in class!”)

Outcome: Reducing manual work & high-value reliability

★★★★★

“Super good. I really like this to reduce the manual work of taking attendance.” — Mario Delgado (Oct 19, 2026)

“This is an excellent software and is a complete game changer for attendence tracking. I'd certainly highly recommend this over any other software for someone looking to use an attendence tracker” — Rafael martinez (Oct 16, 2026)

Good to know

Yes. Personal @gmail.com, Workspace Starter through Enterprise, and every Education tier.

No. Google's built-in report needs an eligible paid edition. Attendance Tracker works on all of them, including free Gmail and Education Fundamentals.

The host tracks out of the box. For a TA or co-host, a Workspace admin turns on a one-time delegation (2 minutes at attendancetracker.dev/setup).

Lifetime is one payment. Annual plans renew only once a year, and you can cancel any time.

The panel runs in desktop browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox). View and share reports from any phone at attendancetracker.dev.

★★★★★ 5.0 / 5 Average · 27 Marketplace Ratings · 14 Written Reviews

Read all 14 verified reviews by outcome → Verify on Google Workspace Marketplace ↗

Customer Case Studies: Real Workflows & Outcomes

How verified educators and hosts replaced manual roll-call and brittle browser extensions with official Google Meet API tracking.

Case Study 01 · Live Session Hosting

Mike Haynes: Eliminating mid-call roll-call distractions with 1-click Google Sheets sync

The Challenge: Manually watching the Google Meet participant list to catch late arrivals and early drop-offs pulled focus away from leading the session.

The Workflow: Installed Attendance Tracker from the Google Workspace Marketplace to record join timestamps and net duration automatically inside the Meet side panel, followed by one-click export to Google Sheets.

Outcome: Zero host distraction during live sessions and permanent attendance records stored in Google Sheets (Verified 5★ review, Aug 11, 2026).

Case Study 02 · Classroom & Team Check-Ins

Gift otindo: Cutting manual data entry errors across Google Classroom & Google Sheets

The Challenge: Cross-referencing expected class rosters against live Google Meet attendees by hand created transcription errors and hid multi-week tardiness trends.

The Workflow: Connected Google Classroom rosters directly to Attendance Tracker so expected students are matched automatically against official Meet API join/leave events and exported to Sheets.

Outcome: Eliminated manual data entry errors and surfaced tardiness/absence trends without complex menus (Verified 5★ review, Oct 15, 2026).

Case Study 03 · Public Education (KPM Malaysia & LATAM)

LIM GUAN YOU (KPM-Murid) & Mirna Iveth Bustos: Multilingual classroom attendance

The Challenge: Teachers and education institutions across Malaysia (KPM) and Latin America needed an attendance tracker that works on standard school accounts in their native language without per-month subscriptions.

The Workflow: Used Attendance Tracker's localized 60-language interface inside Google Meet to capture Present, Late, and Absent statuses and student statistics automatically.

Outcome: Saved 5–10 minutes of instructional time per class with organized, multi-session student statistics (Verified 5★ reviews, Oct 2026).

Take attendance in Google Meet automatically.

Google Meet Attendance Tracking Built for Teachers

Free option for classes up to 25 students

Educator and lifetime pricing options

Attendance history and semester reporting

Exports for supported learning management systems

Ninety seconds, start to Sheet

From "who's here?" to a clean Sheet

A spreadsheet you'd actually keep

Students check themselves in.

Everything else you'd want

Why an add-on beats an extension

One tool, four kinds of roll-call

What real educators & hosts say

Customer Case Studies: Real Workflows & Outcomes

Mike Haynes: Eliminating mid-call roll-call distractions with 1-click Google Sheets sync

Gift otindo: Cutting manual data entry errors across Google Classroom & Google Sheets

LIM GUAN YOU (KPM-Murid) & Mirna Iveth Bustos: Multilingual classroom attendance

Pay once. Nothing to cancel.

The 6 questions every Google Meet attendance buyer asks

1. Pricing & Free Tier

2. Setup (30 Seconds)

3. Permissions & Privacy

4. Accuracy & Rejoins

5. Exports & LMS Formats

6. Google Account Compatibility

Good to know

Take attendance by hand one last time.

Take attendance in Google Meet automatically.

Google Meet Attendance Tracking Built for Teachers

Free option for classes up to 25 students

Educator and lifetime pricing options

Attendance history and semester reporting

Exports for supported learning management systems

Ninety seconds, start to Sheet

From "who's here?" to a clean Sheet

A spreadsheet you'd actually keep

Students check themselves in.

Everything else you'd want

Why an add-on beats an extension

One tool, four kinds of roll-call

What real educators & hosts say

Customer Case Studies: Real Workflows & Outcomes

Mike Haynes: Eliminating mid-call roll-call distractions with 1-click Google Sheets sync

Gift otindo: Cutting manual data entry errors across Google Classroom & Google Sheets

LIM GUAN YOU (KPM-Murid) & Mirna Iveth Bustos: Multilingual classroom attendance

Pay once. Nothing to cancel.

The 6 questions every Google Meet attendance buyer asks

1. Pricing & Free Tier

2. Setup (30 Seconds)

3. Permissions & Privacy

4. Accuracy & Rejoins

5. Exports & LMS Formats

6. Google Account Compatibility

Good to know

Take attendance by hand one last time.

Upgrade to Pro

Request School / Department License

Note for student

Copy absent students:

Create Class Roster