Overview
Mentimeter is a cloud-based polling tool to interact with students through presentations in real-time using a mobile phone or other device connected to the internet. Mentimeter visualises the response data from participants which can be displayed live but it can also be hidden until all students have submitted a response.
For more information about the tool, please visit their website.
In this article, we will show you the available sharing options within a Mentimeter presentation.
How to share a Mentimeter presentation
Once you have created your Mentimeter presentation, you can then share it in different ways, depending on your goal, such as:
- inviting collaborators, so that other users, such as educators, could access, edit, and share it;
- sharing for participation, so that other users, such as students, can access and interact with it;
- sharing the presentation so you can use it on different websites, or
- sharing for rolling over from one account to another, so that the presentation belongs to multiple accounts.
Invite collaborators
To share your presentation for collaboration, please follow the steps below:
- Please open your Mentimeter presentation, and then select the ‘Share’ menu from the right-hand navigation bar.
- A new window will pop up from where you would need to select the first tab where it says ‘Invite collaborators’.
- In the search bar, you would need to type the e-mail addresses of the users you wish to add. Once they have been added, they will be displayed on the list that would appear under the search bar.
Participation
To share your presentation for participation, please follow the steps below:
- Please open your Mentimeter presentation, and then select the ‘Share’ menu from the right-hand navigation bar.
- A new window will pop up from where you would need to select the second tab where it says ‘Participation’.
- There are multiple available sharing options and validation which you can select from, depending on your goal:
- Voting code – with this option, the students would need to open the following page where in the search bar they would need to enter the code that has been generated by the tool in order to join your presentation. You can also set up an expiry date for the code, which can be 2, 7, or 14 days. Once the due date has passed, a new code would be generated.
- Voting URL link – with this option, the students would need to open the shared URL link in order to join your presentation.
- QR code – with this option, the students would need to use a QR code scanning application in order to join your presentation.
You can also close the presentation completely at any time if you select the option ‘No one (closed)’ from the following drop-down list. This would prevent any participant from accessing and/or interacting with your presentation.
Presentation sharing
To share your presentation on different websites, or for rolling it over to another account, please follow the steps below:
- Please open your Mentimeter presentation, and then select the ‘Share’ menu from the right-hand navigation bar.
- A new window will pop up from where you would need to select the third tab where it says ‘Presentation sharing’.
- There are two available sharing options, which you can select from, depending on your goal:
- Sharing as an URL link – with this option, the other users would need to open the shared URL link in order to access the presentation or in order to roll it over to their accounts by clicking on the ‘Copy to your account’ button. Please note that if they wish to copy it to their account we would recommend they log into their Mentimeter accounts first.
- Sharing as an embed link – with this option, the other users could embed the link into a website, so that the content would be displayed there, rather than opening a URL link which would open the presentation on a different tab of a browser.
You can also download the results or your presentation slides if you click on the ‘download center’ hyperlink which would appear at the bottom of this window.
