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Mentimeter is a Swedish company based in Stockholm that develops and maintains an eponymous

app used to create presentations with real-time feedback

Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool that helps to engage students and enables


every voice in a classroom or lecture hall to be heard. You can use it to gauge student
comprehension, test knowledge retention or as a fun way to break up learning

WHAT IS MENTIMETER AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

Mentimeter is an online polling tool which 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 and prompting debate.

MCQ-Multiple Choice Questions

The most common question type is Multiple Choice, in which participants can
choose between several options that you provide. You’re probably already
quite familiar with this type of question, since it has been widely used for
surveys.
Multiple Choice is suitable when you already know what options you want the
participants to vote on, i.e. you want your audience to choose only from a few
pre-defined options.

Create a Multiple Choice question


This is how you create a Multiple Choice question with Mentimeter:
1. Create a new slide
2. Choose Multiple Choice question
3. Fill in your question
4. Enter answer options

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The Multiple Choice question type is one of our most popular due to its versatility, meaning it can be
used in many different situations. This article outlines five different tips that you will find useful
when creating your next Multiple Choice questions with Mentimeter! creating Multiple Choice
Questions with Mentimeter
1. Make sure that your question is clearly formulated

The best way to guarantee the most accurate answers on your multiple choice question is to start off
with a well-formulated question. Ensure that your question is clear and easy to understand by
keeping it short, precise, and by using simple language. Long and complicated questions may take
more time to explain to your audience and there is a greater risk that your audience may not
understand the question you’re asking.

2. Use open-ended questions to develop the answer

Sometimes, a multiple choice question might not give you all the information you need. By using an
open-ended question to follow up your multiple choice question, you can add follow up questions
that will help you to gather more in-depth data from your audience that can help spark discussion or
take action. Use questions such as “Why did you choose that answer?” or “How did you come to that
answer?” in order to prompt your audience into sharing more information.

3. Consider adding an “other” option

You might find that you can’t (or don’t want to) cover all possible options with a multiple choice
question. If that is the case, then consider adding an “other” option which the audience can vote on
if they do not see the option they want. This will capture all the "other" answers from your audience
and ensure that the data isn’t inaccurate.

4. One or several options?

Do you want your audience to select one or several answers from the list? With Mentimeter you can
decide on which setup you would prefer. If you have a question that requires one answer, such as
“Which option do you prefer?”, then you want to limit the audience’s ability to vote on more than
one option. However, if you have a question such as “Which days of the week do you go to the
gym?” you will probably want to let your audience select one or more options.

5. Use Image Choice to enhance the learning experience

Use the Image Choice question to add images and gifs to multiple choice questions when using
Mentimeter. Not only will adding images make your presentation look more interesting, but it can
also help your audience visualize the answers better and improve the learning experience.

The Multiple Choice question type is just one of many that you can use! Explore these resources
around the different question types to make your next presentation even more exciting and
engaging.

Type Answer Quiz

Challenge your audience by making them guess the correct answer in free text!
The Type Answer Quiz is perfect for when you want to test the participants’ ability to figure out the
correct answer without having options to choose from! The participants need to type the correct
answer (or versions of it, see below!) before the time to answer is up.

You can mix Type Answer slides with Select Answer slides to create a full
Quiz Competition.
How to create a Type Answer question:
1. Add a new slide
2. Choose the ‘Type Answer’ Quiz competition type
3. Enter your question
4. Enter the correct answer to display. This will show up on the
presentation screen when the time to answer has run out or everyone
has answered
5. Optionally, you can add other acceptable answers. These will not be
shown on the presentation screen but if a participant enters an
answer that match any of these it will also be marked as correct

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Simply use Mentimeter to ask a question, present it to your audience,


and let them add words with their smartphone or other device.
Answers appear in real-time to build dynamic Word Cloud. The bigger
the word or emoji, the more people have submitted it, making it easy
to quickly spot which answers are most popular.

HOW TO CREATE A WORD CLOUD IN POWER POINT?


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HOW TO ADD A TIMER

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HOW DO WE USE THE MENTIMETER WORD CLOUD

Simply use Mentimeter to ask a question, present it to your audience, and let them add
words with their smartphone or other device. Answers appear in real-time to build
dynamic Word Cloud. The bigger the word or emoji, the more people have submitted it,
making it easy to quickly spot which answers are most popular.
Scales questions
Use Scales questions to let your audience submit numeric answers
or rate statements.

Written by Maja Jakobsson


Updated over a week ago

With the Scales question type, participants can rate statements on a scale. This is good to use
if you have questions with numeric answers, want the audience to rate something, or if you
want to generate statistics that you can use for analyzing trends and tendencies.

Create a Scales question


This is how you create a Scales question in Mentimeter:
1. Create a new slide
2. Choose Scales question
3. Fill in your heading
4. Enter statements to rate
5. (Optional) Change the name of the scale’s high and low label

When moving the slider to any of the high, low or mid value labels on your
Scales question, you will see auto-suggestions appear in the voting view.
Those enable tooltips for the voters; helping them to interpret different
numerical values in a Likert scale.

Get a vote on your Scales question

When you get a vote, it will slide from left to right corresponding to the participant's answer. You
will also see the distribution of votes as a graph just above the specific lines. With more votes, the
number in the circle will show the weighted average of all the votes. You can read more about voting
on Scales questions here.
Leaderboard.
One of the elements that make a Mentimeter pub quiz more fun than a traditional style pub
quiz is the leaderboard feature. The leaderboard automatically calculates the points
after each question, and displays the top ten teams in a colorful leaderboard.

HOW DO UOY ADD LEADERBOARD TO MENTIMETER

How to create a Quiz competition


1. Select the Quiz question of your choice. There are two different types of Quiz
questions: ...
2. Select the correct answer. ...
3. Select scoring setting. ...
4. Select time to answer. ...
5. Add music to your Quiz. ...
6. Add a leaderboard.

HOW DO YOU ADD A LEADERBOEARD QUIZZ

To enable Leaderboard for your quiz:


1. Go to Pigeonhole > Agenda > Poll session> Select Quiz.
2. Click + Add Question. Type your question.
3. Select Presenter Pace. To run the quiz without timer, simply select No time
limit on the drop-down menu. ...
4. Under Advanced Settings, select Leaderboard.
5. Select Add Poll.

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How to make a word cloud

https://www.mentimeter.com/features/word-cloud

https://help.mentimeter.com/en/articles/410469-word-cloud

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Why Use Word Clouds?


When used in a live setting it immediately increases the interactivity and
engagement of the presentation with the audience. There’s a very good
reason it is one of our most popular slide types. Everyone sees ideas
expand and shrink before their own eyes. 

This is a great way to spark conversation and to get an unbiased


representation of what the audience truly thinks or feels. Add some
dynamism to a presentation by helping students focus, making sure
everyone understood key takeaways from the meeting, or finding out how
people felt about a trip.
Use Mentimeter directly in
your PowerPoint
presentation
Thanks to this plugin you can bring some interactivity and fun to your
PowerPoint presentation. Enliven your slide deck with some interactive
elements and instantly connect with your audience. The plugin is for
Windows PowerPoint 2016, and you need an Office 365 account to
download it.

https://www.mentimeter.com/features/powerpoint

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