⚡ Hands-Free Tracking

Automatic Attendance in Google Meet

"Automatic" should mean you do nothing: no roll call, no chat check-ins, no copying names after the meeting — and no forgetting to save the report. Here is how to make Google Meet take attendance entirely by itself, from the first join to the finished spreadsheet in your Drive.

Why Google Meet Doesn't Do This Out of the Box

Google Meet only produces attendance reports on premium Workspace tiers (Education Plus and certain Enterprise plans), and even then the report is a bare CSV emailed to the host — with no late flags, no roster matching, and no cumulative view across sessions.

Attendance Tracker is a certified Google Workspace Marketplace add-on that runs in the Meet side panel and works on every account type, including free school domains and personal Gmail. It's an official Meet Add-ons SDK app — not a Chrome extension scraping participant names off the screen, which breaks whenever Google updates Meet's layout and only works on the one computer it's installed on.

The Fully Automatic Setup

📋 Auto Roll Call

Every participant is logged the moment they join — name, email, join time — with zero action from you.

⚡ Auto-Export on Meeting End

Turn it on once in Settings. When your meeting ends, the attendance sheet saves itself to Google Drive and lands in your inbox.

⏰ Automatic Late Flags

Joins 5+ minutes after the start are flagged automatically (e.g. +12m late) — no clock-watching required.

🙋 Automatic Absent Detection

Save your roster once, and every report lists who missed the session — not just who attended.

🔁 Automatic Series Roll-Up

Recurring meetings accumulate into a per-person attendance percentage across the whole series, updated on every session.

📱 Works From Any Device Afterwards

Your meeting history and reports are available on the web dashboard and installable mobile app — not locked to one browser.

Turn On Automatic Attendance (One-Time Setup)

Install: Open the Attendance Tracker Marketplace page and click Install.
In your next meeting, open the side panel via the Activities / Add-ons icon and choose Attendance Tracker.
Open Settings in the panel and switch on Auto-export.
That's it. From now on, joining your meeting and opening the panel is all it takes — the report generates and saves itself when the call ends.

Why not a Chrome extension? Extensions guess attendance by reading the on-screen participant list, so they miss people in large meetings, break on Meet UI updates, and can't run if you join from another device. A native add-on logs attendance through Google's own APIs — reliable at any meeting size.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to keep the side panel open the whole meeting?

Open the panel once near the start so tracking begins, then use Meet normally. With auto-export enabled, the report is captured and saved even if you forget about it entirely.

Does automatic tracking work for participants on phones?

Yes. Participants joining from the Meet mobile app or dialing in are logged the same way — the tracking happens through Meet's APIs, not their device.

Can attendance really be exported without clicking anything?

Yes — that's the auto-export feature: when the meeting ends, the spreadsheet is created in your Google Drive and emailed to you automatically. Manual one-click export is always available too.

What does it cost?

Real-time tracking is free with 2 exports per month across Google Sheets, CSV, or binary Excel (for classes up to 25 attendees, plus 1 large-class grace export). Hands-free auto-export is part of Pro: the Educator Pass at $14.99/year ($4.99–$7.99/year regional), or a one-time Lifetime Pass for $29 ($9.99–$19 regional).

Set it up once, never take attendance again

Free install on Google Workspace Marketplace — automatic from your very next meeting.

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