AttensaHow attendance is calculated and shown
How Attensa turns Google’s join and leave events into minutes present, an attendance percentage, and the timelines you see.
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Google Meet reports each time a participant joins and leaves. Attensa uses those events directly, and the same calculation backs the meeting page, the participant profile, exports, and certificate eligibility.
Time present
- Each join and leave is one join/leave session.
- Sessions are clipped to the meeting: time outside the meeting’s start and end is ignored.
- Overlapping sessions are merged, so someone joined on two devices at once is not counted twice.
- If a meeting is still running, the current time is used as its end.
Attendance percentage
The percentage is time present divided by the meeting’s duration, capped at 100%. A person present for 45 minutes of a 60-minute meeting shows 75%.
What the screens show
| Where | What you see |
|---|---|
| Meeting page, per person | A circular timeline showing the share of the meeting present, plus First joined, Last left, and the number of join/leave sessions. |
| People page | Each person’s meetings, total time present, and attendance history. On Basic these totals cover only the recent window your plan shows. |
| Overview | Meetings captured, known participants, time observed, repeat engagement, and a few charts. “Frequent”, “Returning”, and “New” mean 3 or more meetings, 2 meetings, and 1 meeting. |
| Percentage rings on a person’s profile | Green at 80% and above, orange from 50%, red below 50%. |
Good to know
- Attensa shows what Google reported. It cannot tell whether someone was actually listening while connected.
- A person who joins as a guest, or with a different Google account, is reported by Google as a separate participant.
- Certificates keep the percentage as it was on the day they were issued; later re-syncs never change an issued certificate.
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