Mentimeter

To use Mentimeter as an Audience member, you will first need to connect to a Mentimeter presentation. To learn more, read Mentimeter’s guide on how to connect and start voting. 

You can use a smartphone, tablet or computer to interact and vote. To learn more, you can read this guide on What device to use for voting. 

For more information, you can read the following guides: 

• How to respond to Word clouds and Open ended questions 

• How to vote in Multiple Choice and ‘Who will win?’ questions 

• How to vote in Ranking, Scales, 2 by 2 Grid and 100 point questions 

• How to join and participate in non-assessed Quiz competitions 

You have two options when creating a presentation with Mentimeter. You can:  

• Create a presentation in Mentimeter using Mentimeter’s content builder and question types 

• Import PowerPoint slides into Mentimeter and embed questions 

You can also watch the video below to learn how to create your first Mentimeter Presentation.

Transcript

Today we're going to look at how to create your first mentimeter presentation perhaps you've seen mentimeter in use or even voted on a question as an audience member. Today we're taking a look at it from the presenter's point of view and I'll teach you how to create a full Mentimeter presentation from scratch so join me at the table here and let's get started with Mentimeter.

The first step is to go to Mentimeter.com and here you have the choice of either logging in if you have an account, or signing up (by the way signing up is free and you can do it in no time). i'm going to create a new account here Menti and i'm going to hit sign up. Here you can choose what you'll be using Mentimeter for. I think i'm going to do it for workshops. You can also choose which plan you would like but here i'll just show you the free version today and this is what it looks like when you log in here. I don't have any presentations saved yet but the ones that you will make will show up in this view. In order to create a presentation you simply select new presentation and this will take you to the edit view here we'll be able to see all of our slides on the left hand side as we're building them. Here in the middle we'll see a preview of our presentation and on the right hand side we have access to all the wonderful mentimeter questions and slide types.

I'm going to start by using a classic word cloud here to show you how that works. I'm going to select the word cloud. The word cloud allows you to ask any open question and have your audience submit one or multiple answers. Here i might ask how has your week been? I could choose how many entries here, i just might do one, and then i am ready to present my mentimeter presentation. In order to present you go up to the right hand side and select present. Your audience will then be able to log in with the code up top at menti.com and submit answers to your presentation. let's take a look at how to add more slides to your presentation, i'm going to go to the left here and select add slide here. I can choose another question type. This time i might do the multiple choice. Here you can ask a question again, uh, have you used mentimeter before? and give the audience options on this question, you can you do: Yes, No, I don't know, and on the multiple choice question.

You can even add images to the answers. I'm going to select this little image icon on the side and here you can either upload your own or take a picture from the image library (free to use), or maybe even add a gif if you'd like that. I'm going to do this one here. Let's take a look at how this will look when you go and present it. Once again going to press present up here and I'm using the test votes here to show you, beautiful. As we can see the answers show up in real time and the pictures are there as well now. Mentimeter offers more than these interactive questions. If we go here to the content slides we can build long and beautiful presentations and add text and images directly in Mentimeter.

Here i'm going to show you the bullet list. i can add my heading here and have my bullets come up. That is Mentimeter at live Q and A and when you go and present the bullets will show up one by one as you click. Here you can also add any image you would like by clicking on the image icon. Let's take one from unsplash here i'm gonna square it off, select save, beautiful. Finally, it is possible to rearrange the order of your slides on the left hand side. Here I might start with my word cloud I'll move up the agenda as in second place and have the mentimeter question at the end.

Mentimeter works great for not only live settings when you have an audience in your room but also for remote situations. If you're presenting in front of a live audience you want to show them the full screen of your presentation, and the same thing goes for remote presentations. The easiest thing to do is to put your mentimeter presentation in full screen and simply share your screen in your video conferencing software. The audience will then be able to see your presentation, join via Menti.com using your code and then vote on your presentation.

I encourage you who are watching this to go to Mentimeter.com create a free account and start making your own interactive beautiful presentations. It's quick it's easy and you'll be up and running in no time, and don't forget that everything you do will be saved automatically so you don't have to worry about anything disappearing while you're editing. All right folks, that is it for today's video thank you so much for watching.

If you're interested in learning more about how to use Mentimeter you can go ahead and subscribe to this youtube channel. You can also go to Mentimeter.com resources, I'll put the link here below where you can find a bunch of inspiration and templates for creating your first interactive presentation. Until then, I'll see you next time

Mentimeter offers a wide range of question types. To get you started here are a few guides and resources on the different types of questions and when they should be used: 

Multiple choice 

These question types allow your audience to choose between predefined options. 

• Learn how to create, edit and use Multiple Choice questions to poll your audience. You can even add text options and images to make it even more exciting 

• Who will win? is a question type that creates a playful voting interaction without any second-place or ‘losers’, it’s an all-round winner! 

Free Text answers 

Free text answers means that audience members can type their answers, and are not restricted in their selection. 

• Word Cloud question type is one of the most popular question types. See just how easy it is to create an impressive Word Cloud. 

• Open ended questions can be used in a few different way. Learn how to create and customise Open Ended questions. 

Rate or allocate  

• Ranking questions let your audience sort and prioritise different items 

• Scales questions let your audience submit numeric answers or rate statements 

•  2 by 2 Grid questions let your audience to rate items against two dimensions 

• 100 Points questions let your audience prioritise items in real time 

Create competition 

Mentimeter questions can be designed so that audience members can see their results and the answers of others in real time to create a fun environment. 

• You can create a fun quiz to encourage engagement. If you’d like more information, here is a guide on how to play the Quiz competition.  

• Audience members can also compete with others in a Multiple choice format quiz, called Select Answer Quiz, or you can challenge your audience by making them guess the correct answer in free text with the Type Answer Quiz. 

If you prefer video content to help walk you through the process of setting up these questions, you can explore the Mentimeter YouTube account and their Playlist: Mentimeter Tutorials – Create Awesome Presentations. 

Mentimeter also offers templates for interesting and exciting presentation slides. You can explore these examples of how you can use Mentimeter on the Mentimeter website. 

There are many ways to share your presentation when it comes to Mentimeter. Here are some guides created by Mentimeter that address the most common ways of sharing content: 

• If you want to provide someone access to the live results of your presentation, you can share the presentation link. 

• Learn how to connect your audience to the presentation via a link once your presentation is ready to go live. 

You can use Mentimeter in both face to face and remote scenarios. For more information, you can explore Mentimeter’s collection of resources and guides on Presenting with Mentimeter. 

A UTS Mentimeter account allows you to customise colours, layouts and images in your presentations. Here are some guides created by Mentimeter to help you get started:  

• Learn how to customise slides with layouts and colours, as well as adjusting the position of texts and images 

• You can also customise the results layout for your presentation if you are using Multiple choice, Open ended, or Scales questions.  

• You can add images and GIFs to your presentation 

• Change the theme of your presentation in just a few clicks 
   

If you would like to learn more about advanced customisation, including inserting math formulas into presentations or customising individual slides, you can explore Mentimeter’s collection of guides and resources for creating presentations and questions. 

Background

This documentation has been developed by the LX.lab in consultation with other teams at the Institute of Media and Learning (IML) and the Government Services Unit (GSU) at UTS. 

Mentimeter is an online polling technology. Creators can build interactive polls that can be used within PowerPoint slides, Canvas course content pages, and other technologies such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Polls can be used to encourage interaction with learning topics, to elevate lecture design, tutorial sessions, group presentations and workshops. Data from the polls can be used to facilitate discussions, provide quick feedback to participants and creators, and gauge the audience's understanding of key concepts. Polling results can be exported and used for further analysis.

Objectives

The UTS Mentimeter Terms of Use informs users of their rights, responsibilities and behavioural expectations in relation to their use of Mentimeter under the UTS enterprise license. It is important to make all users aware of this statement.

Support for Mentimeter

For technical help with single sign-on issues, you can contact ITSC at UTS. Call +61 2 9514 2222 or submit a Service Connect ticket.

For support with the creation of polls, you can contact Mentimeter directly through the chat feature that is available on the Mentimeter homepage while being logged into your account. This feature is best accessible from the afternoon onwards, otherwise, the chat displays the time when Mentimeter staff will be able to get back to you. Users can also contact Mentimeter through hello@mentimeter.com and support@mentimeter.com for help with technical queries.

Academic and professional staff can find support at the LX.lab for Mentimeter through LX Resources, ServiceConnect tickets, workshops, and the LX Chat. Please feel free to drop in to the LX.lab or submit a ServiceConnect ticket to request support.

Students can find support resources on the UTS public website, or by contacting the Student Enquiry Team (AskUTS), UTS Library, or the Student Learning Hub

Terms and conditions

Mentimeter user roles

The use of this tool is voluntary for both the creation of polls and the participation in polls. Please refer to the UTS Mentimeter Privacy Notice for further information.

Creators

Creators are those who set up a polling activity. Under the UTS enterprise license, this can be done by staff and students with their UTS credentials.

As a creator, it is your responsibility to frame the question sequence within your poll in a non-identifiable way on privacy grounds:

• You cannot use Mentimeter for graded assignments or academic research purposes.
• You cannot enforce the participation of your audience in the polling activity.
• You cannot collect health or demographic information that could result in the ability to identify participants.
• You should not require participants to provide their email addresses. You may allow participants to provide their email addresses voluntarily, to enable them to receive the polling results.

Participants

Participants are those who respond to a polling activity. Under the UTS enterprise license, this can be a staff member, student, or the general public.As a participant, it is your responsibility to assess the questions and only proceed to participate in the poll if you are comfortable with them:

• Questions within an activity should not be phrased in a way that they can identify you.
• You may refuse participation or discontinue participation in the poll at any point during the activity.
• Participation in a polling activity cannot be enforced.
• Mentimeter cannot be used for graded assignments or research purposes on privacy grounds.
• You do not have to provide your email address for participation in a poll. Only provide your email address if you would like to receive the polling results.

University members using Mentimeter

While using Mentimeter, both staff and students are bound by the Acceptable Use of Information Technology Facilities and the Equity, Inclusion and Respect Policy. Students are able to refer to the Student Rights and Responsibilities Policy for further information. The use of this tool is voluntary for both staff and students.

This license is extended to all UTS staff and students. Both as a staff member or a student, you are welcome to use Mentimeter's full functionality under the UTS enterprise license.

Staff

Mentimeter is a polling technology to encourage audience engagement, and to convey formative feedback to and from the audience. Mentimeter is not suitable for summative assessment or academic research purposes as it does not meet secure Australian data storage requirements. For academic research, please contact the Research Systems Team to discuss the use of Qualtrics or contact your faculty to discuss other options. The choice to engage with Mentimeter activities is up to the participant and they may discontinue participating in the poll at any point during the activity. As a staff member, your participation in Mentimeter polls is not mandatory.

Students

Student use of the tool falls under the same guidelines as for staff (see above). Mentimeter cannot be used for academic research, nor can staff use the data from polls to feed into student assessment marks. As a student, your participation in Mentimeter polls is not mandatory. 

Privacy

Any personal information collected when using the polling tool will be stored with Mentimeter. Personal information collected by Mentimeter may be stored outside of NSW or Australia. Mentimeter may pass on personal information to third parties as part of them providing their services to Mentimeter. Please refer to the UTS Mentimeter Privacy Notice for further information.

Cookies

Mentimeter may partner with third-party ad networks to either display advertisements on their website or to manage their advertising on other websites. The ad network partners use cookies and web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about user's activities on the Mentimeter website and other websites to show users targeted advertisements based on their interests. Some cookies are deleted automatically once you close your browser, while others will remain for a period of time. Mentimeter may also partner with third-party data providers to match IP addresses with company names and contact names. Their data partners may use cookies and web beacons for the purpose of matching IP addresses.

More information about the cookies and processors in use can be found in the Mentimeter Cookie Policy. Anyone concerned about how their data is used may want to disable the cookies in their browser.

Mentimeter is an online polling technology used by UTS under contract with Mentimeter (Contractor). This privacy notice explains how personal information is managed when using this tool.

Polls can be set up and run by UTS staff or students (collectively referred to as Creators) and will be conducted anonymously with students, staff or the general public (collectively referred to as Participants) as part of academic teaching and learning, administrative, community engagement, and related activities.

The use of this tool, for both the creation of and response to polls, is voluntary and all users should refer to this privacy notice, the UTS Mentimeter Terms of Use, and related links.

What personal information is collected and for what purpose?

When using the online polling tool, the following information may be collected by UTS and the Contractor:

• If you are a Creator:
  • Your name, UTS email address, IP address, and if applicable student ID. This information is required to allow you to create your polls and manage your account.
• If you are a Participant, your participation is voluntary, and you have the option to discontinue completing a poll at any time. If you do continue with a poll:
  • Responses will be anonymous, however, note that when completing a poll your IP address is captured and retained for14-days.
  • You can choose to provide your email address when completing a poll for the purpose of receiving the results of the poll, where this option is provided. This is entirely voluntary. Where you provide an email address when completing a poll, it is deleted after 12-months, unless you subsequently use that email address to create a Mentimeter account.

Use of cookies

The Contractor uses cookies on their website for the purposes of authentication, performance analysis, and marketing. Some cookies are deleted automatically once you close your browser, while others will remain for a period of time. You can find more information in the Mentimeter Cookie Policy (which includes advice on how to de-activate cookies) and in the Specifications for Facebook pixel standard events. The Contractor may also use Custom Facebook events for this service.

Where will personal information be stored?

Any personal information collected when using the polling tool will be stored with the Contractor under contract with UTS. Personal information collected may be stored outside of NSW or Australia by the Contractor. This may include Creator contact details, and Participant email addresses, if volunteered, as outlined in the Mentimeter Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of personal information

The Contractor may pass information to third parties as part of providing their services. You can find out more information in the Mentimeter Processors document.

Personal information collected as part of using the polling tool will not otherwise be disclosed unless required or permitted by law.

Accessing and correcting your information

To access, correct, or request the deletion of any personal information held about you

• as a Creator, contact UTS throughServiceConnect.
• as a Participant, contact Mentimeter through hello@mentimeter.com.

Any action taken will depend on whether there is a legal requirement to retain information. These actions may not be possible in cases where information was received anonymously

More information

For more information about the use of Mentimeter at UTS see the UTS Mentimeter Terms of Use or contact UTS.

Further information about how UTS manages personal information can be found at Privacy at UTS.