Google Meet improves meeting attendee reporting

overview

Previously, Google launched attendance reporting in Google Meet for educational level meetings. Google is currently making several improvements to provide more access, control, and visibility to meeting and live streaming reports. Specifically, we are adding:

• Live stream viewership data. Reports that include live stream viewer data will now be in a separate tab. Live stream data will include total concurrent viewers and viewers throughout the live stream.
• Admin control is based on tracking attendance. Admins can choose whether the organizational unit can use the attendance tracking feature or not.
• New settings to control report generation. Meeting organizers who are not part of Education domains can choose to generate a report for the meeting through in-meeting settings or from a Calendar event before the meeting starts. Meeting organizers in Education domains will continue to automatically receive attendance reports for meetings with five or more participants.
• Number of on-call viewers for live streams. Live stream hosts and meeting attendees (not live stream viewers) will now see the total number of live stream participants through Google Meet from desktop or personal computers.
• Attendance reports for more customers. We're providing attendance reporting to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus customers. Previously, they were only available to Enterprise for Education customers.

Get started with Google Meet attendance reporting

• Admins
  • By default, attendance reports and live streams will be available by default to your users, but you can make them unavailable to your domain or specific organizational units and groups. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing attendance reporting for your organization.
  • In-call viewer count for live streams will be ON by default and cannot be turned off. Visit our Help Center to learn more about live streaming video meetings.

• End users
  • Users in the Enterprise for Education domain: Meeting organizers will continue to receive automatic reports for meetings with five or more participants.
  • Users in other domains: Attendance reports will be OFF by default, but meeting organizers can turn them ON for any meeting using the meeting settings in a call or event with Calendar before the call. Visit the Help Center to learn more how to enable or disable attendance reporting in Google Meet.
  • All users: In-call viewer count for live streams will be ON by default and cannot be turned off. Visit our Help Center to learn more about live streaming video meetings.

Example of live stream participation report

Deployment speed

Live streaming data reporting:

• Rapid and scheduled release domains: Full release (1-3 days for features to appear) starting November 24, 2020

Settings to control report generation (non-Education only):

• Rapid and scheduled release domains: Full release (1-3 days for features to appear)

Number of on-call viewers for live streams:

• Rapid and scheduled release domains: Full release (1-3 days for features to appear) starting November 24, 2020

Availability

• Available for Google Workspace Essentials, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus, as well as its customers G Suite Enterprise for Education.
• Does not apply to Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard as well as G Suite Basic, Business, Education and Nonprofits customers.

Update: Gimasys