What is it?
Mentimeter is an interactive presentation and polling tool widely used in academia to boost student engagement during lectures, seminars, and workshops. Mentimeter Live lets instructors ask questions in real time, with students responding on their own devices and the results appear instantly on screen. It's commonly used for knowledge checks and brainstorming ideas and encouraging active participation in large classes.
How to access
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Log into Mentimeter using SSO to access your full account: https://www.mentimeter.com/auth/saml
- Students join the session through menti.com or a shared QR code.
Top tips!
- When creating a Mentimeter, try the preview button so you can get a real-time student/teacher experience.
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Use the responses from word clouds and open-ended questions as springboards for discussion.
- Currently there is no 'undo' button in Mentimeter, so it is a good idea to duplicate a slide before making edits. That way, you can return to the original version if needed.
Key features
- Live polls and quizzes (multiple choice, scales, ranking, open text)
- Word clouds to surface themes or misconceptions quickly
- AI summary of open-ended questions to draw out themes
- Anonymous responses to encourage participation from all students
- Real-time visualisation of results for instant feedback
- Integration with slides (PowerPoint, Google Slides, etc.)
- Asynchronous mode for pre-class or post-class activities
- Exportable results for review, reflection, or assessment support
- Q&A feature to allow students to ask questions anonymously, allowing free-flowing discussion
- Collect feedback through asynchronous surverys with Mentimeter Forms
- Gather ongoing feedback through recurring check-ins with Mentimeter Pulse
FAQs
Please let us know if you have any questions to add to this list and we'll be happy to address them. Contact cadi-digital@port.ac.uk.
- From Mentimeter: Create your PowerPoint slides and embed these in Mentimeter. You can then add question slides before or after your deck of PowerPoint slides. You may find you need to allow third-party cookies in Mentimeter in order to see your slides. Embed a PowerPoint presentation into Mentimeter | Mentimeter Help Center
- From PowerPoint: Import individual Mentimeter slides into a PowerPoint presentation using the desktop app. How to use the PowerPoint Add-in | Mentimeter Help Center
We've signed a three-year contract with Mentimeter, which means we can rely on having access to the tool until at least 2029. While no software arrangement can be guaranteed permanent, this contract gives us stability for planning and using Mentimeter with confidence.
Students can access the results to a Mentimeter presentation on their devices immediately after the session has ended. However, if you'd like them to be able to view the presentation slides and results in days or weeks afterwards, you'll need to share the presentation link after the session.
To turn on the 'Profanity Filter' in Mentimeter:
- Open your presentation and click the Settings icon (top left).
- Select Language Preferences.
- Choose language(s) you want filtered.
- The profanity filter is then applied to free-text responses such as Word Clouds and Open Ended questions. Inappropriate words are masked or removed from the presentation view.
Tip: If you want this enabled for all future Mentis, turn on "Always use the selected filters" at the bottom of the languages list. New presentations will then have the filter enabled automatically.
To share a presentation to work collaboratively with colleagues, open the presentation, and in the top right corner select the plus icon next to your initials to 'Invite user to collaborate'. You can then type in the name or email address of those within the University's workspace to share the the presentation with edit, comment or view access as required.
First, contact cadi-digital@port.ac.uk to request a Group is set up in Mentimeter confirming the name of the group and members required. You can then share a presentation as a template by clicking the dropdown menu next to the presentation title and choosing 'Share as template'. You can then choose the Group to share the presentation with as a template and Save. Others in the group will then be able to save their own copy of the template to use their own presentation.
Use the same Menti for each group of learners, clearing results before reusing the presentation with another group as follows:
- click 'clear results' in the top right corner above the slides.
- Access the Results page by clicking 'View results' in the top right corner above the slides. Click 'Download' in the bottom corner and select download the results to Excel. Each session is separated by session number so results from different sessions/groups of students undertaking the presentation can be compared.