Attendance Tracker

How to export Google Meet attendance to Moodle

Teach on Google Meet but grade in Moodle? Here is how to turn your live Meet attendance into a Moodle-ready gradebook CSV — matched to students by email — without retyping a single name.

Why grade attendance through Moodle?

• Participation marks: Many schools and universities weight attendance or participation as a grade item — Moodle's gradebook is where it has to land.
• One source of truth: Students (and parents) already check Moodle. Attendance recorded in Meet should show up there, not in a separate spreadsheet.
• Audit trail: Join/leave times and per-session percentages back up every mark if a student disputes it.

Step-by-step setup

Step 1: Create your Class Roster

1. Join your Google Meet class and open Attendance Tracker from the Activities panel.
2. Open the Class Roster tab and click + New Class.
3. Paste your student list — one per line as Name <email> — or click Import from Google Classroom to pull the roster in one click (how that works).

Use the same email addresses your students have in Moodle. Moodle's grade import matches rows by email, so matching addresses means a zero-effort import.

Step 2: Track the class

Press Start when class begins. The roster view live-sorts students into Present, Late, and Absent, records join/leave times, and computes each student's attendance percentage for the session.

Step 3: Download the Moodle gradebook CSV

1. In the Class Roster tab, find Export gradebook CSV: and click Moodle.
2. A CSV downloads with one row per enrolled student:

• Students who attended get their attendance percentage (time in class ÷ class length).
• Unexcused absences get 0.
• Students you marked Excused get a blank cell — so an excused absence never imports as a zero. You decide how to grade it.

Step 4: Import into Moodle

1. In your Moodle course, go to Grades → Import → CSV file.
2. Upload the downloaded file and set Map from to Email address and Map to to useremail.
3. Map the attendance column to a new or existing grade item and click Upload grades.

Whole-semester attendance in one file

For recurring classes on a Google Calendar invite, Attendance Tracker rolls every session into a series automatically. Open Meeting History → Series, expand your class, and click Moodle under Download gradebook CSV. You get one row per student with their cumulative attendance percentage across the entire semester — sessions attended, sessions missed, and total minutes. That single file is your end-of-term participation grade, ready to import.

Frequently asked questions

Does the export need any Moodle plugin?

No. It uses Moodle's built-in CSV grade import — no attendance plugin, no LTI setup, no admin help required.

What if a student joins from a different email?

Attendance Tracker matches roster students by email first, then by display name, so a student who joins with their name still gets counted. The exported row always carries the roster email so the Moodle match stays intact.

Is this free?

Per-session gradebook exports are free. Whole-semester cumulative exports are part of Pro — a $14.99/year Educator Pass ($4.99–$7.99/year regional) or a one-time $29 Lifetime Pass ($9.99–$19 regional).