Attendance Tracker

How to see who attended a Google Meet after it ended

The meeting is over, everyone has left, and now you need the participant list. Here is the honest answer to why Google Meet doesn't show you one — and three reliable ways to make sure you always have it.

Why can't I see who joined my Google Meet?

Once a Google Meet ends, the People panel is gone and there is no built-in "past participants" screen. Attendance reports by email exist only on certain paid Workspace editions (Education Plus, Teaching & Learning add-on, and some enterprise tiers), and even there the host has to have the feature enabled before the meeting. On a free Gmail account or a standard Workspace plan, the participant list simply isn't stored anywhere you can reach.

That is a problem the moment you need evidence: a student disputes an absence, HR asks who sat the compliance training, or a client claims they were on the kickoff call. The fix is to have something recording attendance while (or, with Pro, whenever) you meet.

Three ways to get the participant list with Attendance Tracker

1. Panel open during the meeting → report auto-exports at the end

1. In Google Meet, open Attendance Tracker from the Activities menu (it's an official add-on in the side panel — not a Chrome extension, and it works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, and on Chromebooks).
2. The panel shows a live roster — Present, Late, Absent, and Guests — while the meeting runs.
3. When the meeting ends, the attendance report exports automatically. You can also download a CSV (opens straight in Excel) or a PDF report at any point.

2. Forgot to open the panel? Pro Auto-Capture has you covered

With Pro, Auto-Capture runs server-side: finished meetings you hosted are exported automatically every few hours, even if you never opened the panel — as long as the meeting ended within the last 2 days. It uses the official Google Meet REST API, so there is nothing to keep open, no tab to babysit, and nothing that breaks when Meet's interface changes.

3. Browse everything in Meeting History

Every tracked meeting — whether captured live or by Auto-Capture — lands in Meeting History at attendancetracker.dev. Open a recent meeting to see the full participant list with join and leave times, re-download the CSV or PDF, or send the roster to Google Sheets.

What the after-meeting report contains

For every participant, the exported report includes:

That is enough detail to settle "I was there the whole time" disputes with timestamps rather than memory.

Three ways this beats Google's own attendance report

• Rejoins are merged, not lost. Google's built-in report doesn't itemize someone who drops and rejoins — a flaky connection can look like an early exit. Attendance Tracker merges reconnections into one accurate record and counts the rejoins separately.
• External emails aren't masked. Google's report hides participants from outside your domain behind asterisks (li***@s***.com). Your export shows the full address for every signed-in participant.
• No two-participant minimum. Google's report only generates with 2+ attendees, which silently excludes 1-on-1 tutoring, office hours, and IEP sessions. Attendance Tracker records a 1-on-1 exactly like a lecture of 200.

Frequently asked questions

Doesn't Google Workspace Education Plus already do this?

Education Plus (and the Teaching & Learning add-on) can email the host an attendance CSV after meetings above a size threshold. If your school pays for it, use it. Attendance Tracker covers everyone else — free Gmail, Business Starter/Standard, nonprofit and standard Education plans — and adds a live roster, Class Roster matching, gradebook exports, and a browsable Meeting History rather than one email per meeting.

Does it work on a personal Gmail account?

Yes. On personal Gmail meetings the host tracks attendance. In Workspace organizations, TAs and co-hosts can also track once a Workspace admin enables a one-time delegation at attendancetracker.dev/setup.

Can I get the participant list for a meeting that already happened?

No — and be wary of any tool claiming otherwise. If nothing was recording attendance while the meeting ran (or, for Pro Auto-Capture, if the add-on wasn't enabled when you hosted it), that list is gone. Going forward is a different story: install once, and every future meeting is captured.