Chrome is a powerful platform, and the Google Apps suite consists of many excellent web apps. But there’s no easy way to track attendance in Google Meet, a chat and video conferencing app. Chrome Extension for Attendance in Google Meet solves this problem. With this simple to use extension, users can now see who’s attending which meeting by just glancing at their browser tabs.

Chrome Extension For Attendance In Google Meet

Though Google Meet is a widely-used video conferencing tool, it does lack some functionalities vital for effective online meetings. Moreover, some other great features are available only with paid plans.

The good news is, there are countless chrome extensions available on the Web Store that can add these missing or paid features to your Meet sessions. Here, we discuss seven chrome extensions for Google Meet to make the most of your online meetings.

1. Google Meet Enhancement SuiteScreenshot of Google Meet Enhancement Suite
   As the name suggests, Google Meet Enhancement Suite has several features that enhance your meet experience. Some of these features are push-to-talk, quick leave, pinned bottom bar, and quick start.

You can also join, mute, enable captions, and turn off videos automatically with this extension. It also plays chime sounds to notify you of new messages or participants.

Though you can use all the above-mentioned features for free, it does offer a pro plan with premium features. These include auto-record, meet attendance, emoji reactions, meeting timer, and hotkey editing. You can also activate dark, do not disturb, and picture-in-picture mode with the paid version.

Considering this extension has over 40 features, it’s best for people who attend meetings frequently and need multiple enhancement features.

Download: Google Meet Enhancement Suite (Free, Paid)

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2. Meeting Notes for Google MeetMeeting Notes Extension Screenshot
   During online meetings, you’ve to toggle between apps to take meeting notes. But thanks to this extension, it’s pretty easy to make notes during your meetings.

Using this intuitive extension by Meetric, you can create meeting minutes and to-do lists within the meeting tab. It also allows participants to collaborate in real-time and create a shared agenda. Best of all, you can keep the history of meeting notes and go back to them whenever you need to find any information.

To boost your productivity, it offers integration with Google Calendar, Notion, and Slack. This extension has both free and paid plans, with the latter costing $5 a month. So if you’re in charge of making meeting notes, this extension is for you.

Download: Meeting Notes for Google Meet (Free, Paid)

3. Google Meet Breakout Rooms

Although Google Meet does have Breakout Rooms, it’s limited to users who have paid Workspace plans. However, if you’re on the basic Google account and want to use breakout rooms, this extension by Robert Hudek can help you.

Using the Google Meet Break Rooms extension, you can create breakout rooms in advance and during the meetings as well. It lets you view all the breakout rooms in a tile view, share video and audio with all rooms, and use a countdown timer for breakout sessions.

There are options for setting nicknames and customizing colors in Google Meet Breakout Rooms. It works well on devices with low memory and can be integrated with Google Classroom. It’s completely free to use.

Download: Google Meet Breakout Rooms (Free)

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4. Meet AttendanceMeet Attendance Screenshot
   Since Google Meet does not provide basic G-suite users the option to track attendance, you can use the Meet Attendance extension. This extension is especially useful for teachers who need to maintain a record of students’ attendance.

Using Meet Attendance, you can record the participants’ attendance and export it to Google Sheets. To take the attendance, go to the People tab and hover the cursor over the tick icon. Here, choose whether to create a new sheet or record attendance on a previous one.

Now, whenever participants will join the meeting, it will automatically take their attendance. You can also take a snapshot of attendance. Moreover, this extension notes the duration of participants’ presence along with the time they joined and left the meetings.

All these features are free for everyone to use. But it also has a pro plan that costs $2.5/month and offers more features.

Download: Meet Attendance (Free, Paid)

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5. Meet Plus for Google Meet
   Meet Plus for Google Meet is another extension with dozens of additional Google Meet features. It’s a highly popular option with over 400,000 downloads and is available in multiple languages.

The notable features of Meet Plus are breakout rooms, dark mode, emoji reactions, and attendance. Moreover, you can conduct online quizzes and polls with Meet Plus. It also has a timer, stickers, press to talk, and real-time whiteboard sharing for collaborative work.

Best of all, you can reposition the Meet Plus bar on the screen to see participants clearly. For best results, all the participants should install this plugin.

Download: Meet Plus for Google Meet (Free, Paid)

6. Otterotter extension screenshot
   Otter is an AI-powered extension that offers live transcription, captions, audio recording, note-taking, and several other useful features.

It transcribes your meetings in real-time, shows captions during meetings, and stores the meeting’s audio recording and transcription. You can view all your calendar events and notes in the My Agenda tab.

You can replay the audio and view notes to revisit the meeting details. Otter also associates a speaker ID with transcription to identify the speaker. It lets teams share notes and recordings directly from its app.

This extension works on Meet, Zoom, and other platforms and has multiple plans, including a free one. But if you want to use basic features on Google Meet, a free plan would suffice.

Download: Otter (Free, Paid)

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7. Timer for Google MeetTimer for Google Meet Extension
   Timer for Google Meet enables you to regain control of your time and conduct effective online meetings.

The simple timer appears at the top of the Meet window, displaying the elapsed time. You can choose whether to display the timer as the countdown. Similarly, you can either hide the timer from other participants or display it.

Download: Google Meet Visual Timer (Free)

Supercharge Your Meetings With Added Features
Thanks to the above-discussed browser extensions, you can add more features to Google Meet and upgrade your experience. But installing too many extensions can hamper your browser’s performance.

So if you want more features for your online meetings, it’s better to look for other video conferencing platforms instead of installing half a dozen extensions.

how to get google meet attendance list

Google Meet doesn’t have an official feature to take attendance but thanks to a Chrome extension you can easily do that. Here’s all you need to take attendance of your class on Google Meet.

Google Meet is one of the most refined video conferencing platforms out there. Previously called Hangouts Meet, this Google product is aimed at no-nonsense organizations and institutions who value privacy and productivity above everything else.

At launch, Google Meet was only reserved for premium G Suite users. However, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, Google has decided to make it available to regular Gmail users as well.

All you need is a regular Gmail account, and you’d be able to host conferences with up to 100 members completely free of cost. Currently, the meetings are restricted to 60 minutes, which is 33% more than Zoom’s 40-minute limit.

As you’d expect, Google has wrapped its premium video calling platform in essential utility features. However, there are still a couple of areas the development team missed.

Hand raising — an invaluable tool for taking attendance — is one such overlooked feature of Google Meet. The tool, which is readily available on Zoom, might not be make-or-break for most users, but it’s still a pretty handy option to have, especially when you’re conducting large meetings.

Thankfully, there’s a pretty simple solution to this annoying inconvenience, and this piece is all about getting you acquainted with it. So, without further ado, let’s get to it.

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3 Chrome extensions you should try for taking attendance on Google Meet
While there are a bunch of options available for taking attendance on Google Meet using Chrome extensions, we recommend you stick to the ones in this list, as they’ve been tried and tested by us as well as other users.

Extension #1: Google Meet Attendance Chrome extension
Created by a teacher — for teachers — this Google Chrome extension makes the process of taking attendance as hassle-free as possible. The layout of the extension seems tailor-made for online classes. So, if you’re looking to reach out to your students and make use of an efficient attendance tool, look no further than this ingenious extension.

To top it off, it shows you exactly when the attendees enter and exit a meeting in the resulting CSV or HTML sheet.

To download the extension, either go to the Google Chrome web store or hit the link here. Now, click on ‘Add to Chrome.’ After it downloads, it would be installed automatically. The extension will only light up when it’s on a supported Google Meet screen.

How to use this
The best thing about Google Meet attendance is that it doesn’t require you to do anything after you install it. When you’re on the Google Meet welcome screen, just before starting a meeting, the extension pops up on your screen. Click on ‘Help’ to know more about its operations or ‘Settings’ to tweak the defaults.

The extension allows you to add multiple ‘Classes’ in an attempt to help you manage your attendees. So, before starting, you must spare a little time to add a new class. To do so, click on the drop-down menu at the top-right corner and hit ‘Add.’

Enter the name of the class and click on the add button.

Start the meeting and you’d see the attendance sheet, under the class name you entered, appear on the left. When someone joins with the meeting link, their name would be displayed immediately under the class name.

You can hide the extension toolbar by clicking on the ‘Tick icon.’

After you’re done, click on the save icon or the HTML save icon to save the attendance sheet as a CSV or an HTML file, respectively.

Additionally, you can go to settings and turn on autosave, which would make sure none of your meetings go undocumented.

Extension #2: Meet Attendance Chrome extension
Google Meet Attendance Chrome extension

Meet Attendance makes use of Google Spreadsheet to store information about the people attending the meeting — including the time they joined. Here’s how to configure the extension:

Go to the Chrome Web Store and search for “Meet Attendance.” Alternatively, you could also click on this link to jump ahead. After locating the extension, hit ‘Add to Chrome.’ Let it install. After successfully installing, the extension would light up when you’re on a supported page — Meet’s official portal.

How to use this
First, open Google Meet in your browser and log in with the required credentials. Start a meeting. Now, when a Google Meet session/meeting is underway, you’ll notice an extra tab — checkbox — right beside the ‘People’ tab.

Click on the tab to go to you the Google Sheet where attendance details are being stored. Hover the tab and you’ll find a couple of options. Click on the ‘+’ Spreadsheet icon to create a separate spreadsheet for longer meetings. The first unnamed horizontal toggle, on the other hand, is used to automatically log the participants.

Toggle off and on to capture the current attendees, and then click on the checkbox tab to access the spreadsheet.

Name of attendees, alongside meeting URL and joining time would be displayed on the sheet.

Extension #3: Google Meet Attendance
Installed by over 30K users, the Google Meet Attendance extension from Jake Crowley has recently generated quite a few positive reviews. The tool saves the timestamp when the attendees are joining and exiting the meeting session with a single click.

As is explained on one of the reviews, this extension doesn’t ask for access to a user’s Google Sheets or any other third-party app. All you need to do is right click on attendees icon and your data will get saved. The extension accurately records the name of the attendees, time they entered the meeting and the time they left.

To download the extension, either go to the Google Chrome web store or hit the link here. Now, click on ‘Add to Chrome.’ After it downloads, it would be installed automatically. The extension icon will light up only when it’s on the Google Meet screen.

How to use it
Before you start using the extension, open Google Meet in Google Chrome and start a meeting. After a Google Meet session/meeting is underway, go to the Participant’s icon on the top right corner and then select the ‘People’ tab.

Right-click anywhere inside this section of the meeting screen and click on the ‘Save Attendance’ option from the menu. A full list of attendance will be downloaded in ‘.CSV’ format in your default downloads folder.

Open the CSV file and you will be able to see the list of people who attended the meeting, the time they joined at and when they left the session, all listed in a table format like in the screenshot below.

Can you take attendance when using Meet on Mozilla Firebox?

Yes. The Google Meet Attendance Chrome extension developed by Allan Caughey is also available as an extension for those of you using Mozilla Firefox as your default web browser. When you start a meeting, you will be able to enter a list of expected invitees and once that is done, the extension will be able to automatically detect the said attendees and how long they stayed in the meeting.

How to use it
You can download the extension by clicking here and then install it by clicking on the ‘Add to Firefox’ button marked on the extension page.

Confirm the installation by clicking on the ‘Add’ button the prompted for and you will be notified when the extension is installed.

You can follow the instructions given in the “Extension #1: Google Meet Attendance Chrome extension” section above to get started with it on Firefox.

Can you take attendance in Meet on Android and iPhone?
As you may have guessed already, there’s no official way to take attendance in Google Meet. Fortunately, if you’re a PC user, you have the option of loading up a good extension and get the job done. However, if you’re stuck with Android or iOS, you’re out of luck. Google Chrome mobile doesn’t support extensions, which means there’s no way for you to take attendance during a meeting.

Has Google promised an official solution for taking attendance?
Despite being pestered on a regular basis, Google is yet to roll out or even promise a solution to the problem. We’re not sure why Google is taking the role of a spectator at this time, but it’s definitely pushing many potential customers away.

Do Zoom and Teams offer attendance?
Microsoft Teams and Zoom are the two biggest competitors of Google Meet. So, it’s natural for Google to try to beat them in their own game. However, when it comes to recording attendance, both Teams and Zoom have the upper hand. Both video conferencing tools come with easy-to-use attendance tracking and can be mastered in a matter of minutes.

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