{"id":848,"date":"2020-07-16T17:19:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T16:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=848"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:57:44","slug":"what-is-mentimeter","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/article\/what-is-mentimeter\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mentimeter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get the best out of Mentimeter and learn more about collaboration using this tool, please read the following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/collaboration-with-mentimeter\/\">blog article<\/a>. For comparison between H5P, Mentimeter and Microsoft PowerPoint, including case studies, please read the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/mentimeter-h5p-microsoft-powerpoint-which-technology-should-i-use\/\">following blog article<\/a>. We also compared Mentimeter with Slido which you can read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/mentimeter-vs-slido-which-technology-should-i-use\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about the tool, please visit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mentimeter.com\/features\" target=\"_blank\">their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mentimeter has many great benefits, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>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;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>unlimited class size, therefore, you can interactively use it during your live sessions or asynchronously with hundreds of students;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>unlimited presentations, therefore, you can design as many presentations for your students as you would like to;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mentimeter has many great features, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Interactive live polling (e.g. \u2018Multiple Choice\u2019) with which you can increase student performance as the presentation would be memorable and dynamic;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Live \u2018Word Clouds\u2019 with which you can pose questions and watch vibrant words appearing on the screen;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quizzes using a variety of question types for testing the student knowledge, to make it more engaging, use them as icebreakers, or to help your students with their studies;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2018Q&amp;A\u2019 with which you can answer questions asked by students during live sessions;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2018Quick Form\u2019 with which you can collect, store and visualise student data that would be based on their opinion;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2018Presentations\u2019 with which you can combine all these features above and many more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where can I learn more about Mentimeter?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/help.mentimeter.com\/en\/articles\/5598454-mentimeter-academy\">their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mentimeter is a cloud-based polling tool to interact with students in real-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[91],"ht-kb-tag":[318],"class_list":["post-848","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-mentimeter","ht_kb_tag-review"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8397,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/848\/revisions\/8397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}