There is now a feature where you can take attendance during a Microsoft Teams Meeting. This allows you to see who joined the meeting and when they left. 

  • You must be the meeting organizer to take attendance. If you are not the meeting organizer, then you will not have the option to take attendance. 
  • You can take attendance during and after the meeting is over. This will show you how to do it both ways.


Taking Attendance After the Meeting


1. Create a Teams meeting like normal. Then you will join the meeting during the designated time that you chose. At the end of the meeting, follow the remaining steps. Remember: You must be the meeting organizer to be able to download the attendance report.


2. After the meeting is over, it may take a few minutes for the Attendance report to be generated. Go to your Calendar in Microsoft Teams and click on the meeting that you want to take the attendance from.


3. After you open the meeting, click on the chat button at the top.


4. Here you can find the attendance report. Click on the download button to download to your computer. From there, you can find the file in your downloads folder in File Explorer.


5. In "Downloads," it will have a title something similar to this:



Taking Attendance During the Meeting


1. Create a Teams meeting like normal. Then you will join the meeting during the designated time that you chose. At the end of the meeting, follow the remaining steps. Remember: You must be the meeting organizer to be able to download the attendance report.


2. Click on the "Participants" button on the taskbar.

3. Click on the "Download attendee report" button.

3. Then go into your File Explorer and click on the "Downloads" tab.

4. In "Downloads," it will have a title something similar to this:


5. Click on it, and then it will open an excel sheet that will look similar to this:


This will allow you to see who joined your meeting and when they left. You will still have to manually search to see who did and did not attend, however, this allows you to at least have record of who made the meeting and who did not.