PLEASE NOTE: Google education has this feature automatically set up for meetings of 5 and over, including meets created through classrooms.
Inside a meeting
- From the bottom, click Menu .
- Click Settings Host controls .
- Turn Attendance tracking on or off .
On Google Calendar
Go to calendar.google.com and choose one:
- Create a new event click Add Google Meet video conferencing.
- At the right, click Change conference settings .
- Tick the box next to 'Attendance tracking' click Save.
- Finish setting up your event.
- Click an existing meeting click Edit event .
- Under event details, click Change conference settings .
- Tick the box next to 'Attendance tracking' click Save.
Get your attendance report
After the meeting, the organiser will receive an email with an attached Google Sheets attendance report with the following info:
- Participant’s name
- If someone calls in from their mobile device, instead of their name, some of their phone number digits will be listed.
- If someone calls in from a Google Meet meeting room, instead of their name, the meeting room’s name will be listed.
- Participant’s email
- Length of time that the participant was on a call, including timestamps of when they first joined and when they left the call.
- If someone gets ejected from a call, that timestamp will be recorded as the time that they left the call.
- If someone joins and leaves the call more than once, multiple timestamps won’t be listed, but their overall call duration will be included.