Attendance Tracker

How to export a Google Meet participant list to Excel

Need your Meet attendance in a spreadsheet — names, emails, who was late, who left early, exact join and leave times? Here is the one-click way to get a CSV that opens straight in Excel, free.

Why you can't do this from Meet alone

Google Meet has no "export participants" button. The People panel disappears when the call ends, and attendance CSVs are emailed to hosts only on certain paid Education and enterprise Workspace editions. For everyone else, getting the list into Excel means tracking it yourself — which is exactly what the Attendance Tracker add-on does from the Meet side panel, using the official Google Meet REST API (no screen scraping, works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, and on Chromebooks).

Step-by-step: Meet → CSV → Excel

Step 1: Open Attendance Tracker during your meeting

1. Install the add-on once from the Google Workspace Marketplace.
2. In your meeting, open the Activities menu and pick Attendance Tracker.
3. The panel tracks everyone automatically — who's present, who joined late, who left early, and every join/leave timestamp.

Step 2: Click the CSV download

Hit the CSV download in the panel — during the meeting or right at the end. The file downloads instantly with one row per participant. (If the meeting already ended with the panel open, the report was exported automatically; you can also re-download it later from Meeting History.)

Step 3: Open it in Excel

Double-click the file. Because CSV is Excel's native interchange format, it opens as a clean worksheet with these columns:

From there it's ordinary Excel: sort by Status to see absentees together, filter Duration to flag anyone under a threshold, or pivot a term's worth of files into a summary.

Prefer a native .xlsx file? Export directly or via Google Sheets

If you want a true .xlsx workbook rather than a CSV, you can download a native Excel (.xlsx) file directly from the side panel or use the Google Sheets export (one click sends the attendance table to a Sheet in your Drive, where you can also choose File → Download → Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)). The free tier includes 2 exports per month across Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel for classes up to 25 attendees (plus 1 large-class grace export).

Grading in an LMS instead?

If the spreadsheet's final destination is a gradebook, skip Excel entirely — the add-on also produces import-ready per-session CSVs for Moodle and Canvas, with the exact column layouts those systems expect.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need Excel installed for this to work?

No. CSV is a standard format — the same file opens in Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc, Apple Numbers, or any tool that reads spreadsheets. "Opens in Excel" is simply the default double-click behavior on machines that have it.

Is the Excel export free?

Yes — the free tier includes 2 exports per month across CSV, binary Excel (.xlsx), or Google Sheets for classes up to 25 attendees (plus 1 large-class grace export). Unlimited exports and hands-free Auto-Capture come with Pro: the $14.99/year Educator Pass ($4.99–$7.99/year regional) or a one-time $29 Individual Lifetime Pass ($9.99–$19 regional).

Can I export a meeting after everyone has left?

If the panel was open during the meeting, yes — the report auto-exports at meeting end and stays available in Meeting History. Pro Auto-Capture also picks up meetings you hosted with the panel closed, within a few hours, for meetings that ended in the last 2 days. What no tool can do is recover a meeting that ended before the add-on was installed — details here.