Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool that allows users to interact in real-time. Users can create quizzes, polls, and word clouds. This tool can be used via a web browser, making it simple to access from nearly any device. Participants can use their laptop or mobile device to access Mentimeter to show their knowledge of a topic, their personal opinion, how they rate something, or to spark discussion in live sessions.
Mentimeter is an online polling and survey tool that can enhance learning and communication. This tool can add an interactive element to a lecture, presentation or recorded session. Question types include multiple choice, ranking, scales, word cloud and open ended, among others. It can be used for icebreakers, checking knowledge, gauging opinion, or prompting debate. With Mentimeter users can build interactive presentations with an easy-to-use online editor and to add questions, polls, quizzes, slides, images, GIFs, and more to the classroom content to make it more engaging and fun.
Participants can use their smartphones or laptops to connect to the presentations where they can answer questions, give feedback, and much more. The responses are visualized in real-time, creating a unique and interactive experience. Once the Mentimeter presentation is over, presenters can share and export the results for further analysis. Mentimeter is completely anonymous; it is not designed for assessing the knowledge and engagement of individual students. It is however very helpful to get an overview if a group is struggling with a specific topic, or can help disclose common misconceptions.
Mentimeter includes many features. Teachers can create word clouds, which are visual representations of words that give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. This type of visualization can help presenters quickly collect data from their audience, highlight the most common answers and present the data in a way that everyone can understand. With Mentimeter teachers can design interactive polls. This feature allows responses from the audience to appear in real-time as dynamic visualization.
Mentimeter is a free-to-use interactive presentation platform for hosting live sessions, polling and much more. It can be used to host engaging sessions and enable participants to ask questions to the presenter using their phone. Teachers can reuse and modify their presentations several times, export the results as an image or pdf or, on a paid plan, to Excel. This is a way to track students’ comprehension when using Mentimeter for formative assessment. Teachers can use the Mentimeter integration feature for Microsoft Teams or Zoom to present directly while using these platforms.
Currently, Mentimeter only partially supports accessibility features. Mentimeter complies with The Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT), an industry standard template for recording how a product or service conforms to Section 508 of the United States Rehabilitation Act. To know more click the Mentimeter Accessibility Statement and the Accessibility in Mentimeter
Mentimeter collects data depending on how the tool is used. For users, Mentimenter collects data like contacts, interaction information, device information, third party information, and cookie information. For the audience, collected data includes device information, contacts, and cookie information. To know more about how Mentimeter collects and uses data please refer to their Privacy Policy.