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.
To get the best out of Mentimeter and to learn more about collaboration using this tool, please read the following blog article.
For more information about the tool, please visit their website.
Benefits
Mentimeter has many great benefits, such as:
- simple and user-friendly interface, therefore, even users who have no previous experience with this kind of tool could learn to optimally use it in a quick and easy way;
- unlimited class size, therefore, you can interactively use it during your live sessions with hundreds of students;
- unlimited presentations, therefore, you can design as many presentations for your students as you would like to;
- variety of questions types, therefore, it can be used within each discipline with a variety of tasks included in the presentations; andIncreases participation by involving students in the discussion
- increases participation by involving students in the discussion and contributes to collaborative working, which then would help to build an online community during the live sessions.
Features
Mentimeter has many great features, such as:
- ‘Interactive Live Polling’ with which you can increase the student performance, as the presentation would be memorable and dynamic;Image choice (single and multiple answers)
- ‘Live Word Clouds’ with which you can pose questions and watch vibrant words appearing on the screen;
- ‘Quiz’ with which you can create a variety of question types for testing the student knowledge, for fun or as icebreakers, or for example, to help your students with their studies;
- ‘Q&A’ with which you can answer the questions that were asked by the students during live sessions;
- ‘Survey’ with which you can collect, store and visualise student data that would be based on their opinion;
- ‘Presentations’ with which you can combine all these features above and many more.
Where can I learn more about Mentimeter?
Mentimeter has created a self-directed course where you can learn the basics of the tool which then would help you create different content types for your students.
For more information, please visit their website.
