Presenting with Mentimeter

Summary

How to present with Mentimeter, give students joing instructions, control your presentation using a mobile device, and use keyboard shortcuts.

Presenting is done by logging on at mentimeter.com and opening your menti presentation in 'present mode'. Participation is done by navigating to menti.com and using a joining code or QR code.

To present, log onto the console computer, open a browser window, and log into your Mentimeter account (remember your phone as Duo authentication is needed to log into Mentimeter). Open your Mentimeter presentation and select ‘Present’ to open it in presentation mode in full screen. Consider Mentimeter's suggested steps to get ready to present before you begin, alomg with the option to preview your presentation to try it from the participant perspective and see test votes coming in.

Integrating Mentimeter with other presentation platforms

See our guide to Integrating Mentimeter with other presentation tools for advice on using Mentimeter with PowerPoint or Google Slides.

Giving joining instructions

Your participants will need to join your Mentimeter presentation to be able to respond (either by using a QR code or by inserting the joining code at menti.com). You can use the following options to make this a smooth process:

For any content or question slide in Mentimeter, you can bring up joining instructions at any time using the 'Show joining instructions' button on the presenting toolbar (or pressing the 'i' shortcut key). This allows you to bring up instructions on an introductory content slide or on a question slide.

Content slides will show you the number of participants who have connected in the bottom-right and, if your content slide includes reactions, you can ask your students to use a reaction when they have joined to show you that they are connected.

Question slides will show you the number of participants who are connected along with the number who have responded to the question which also helps you to get a handle on how many students have connected successfully and how long to leave the question up for responses before moving on. It can be useful to include a quick 'warmer' question to give students the chance to join Menti on their device and check that they can respond successfully (this can be a fun, socially-oriented question or something connected to the subject matter).

If you would like to make the joining instructions more prominent, you can include a specific instructions slide. This can be particularly useful for participants who are using Mentimeter for the first time.

Once your participants have joined the presentation, they should not need to re-join to respond to your subsequent questions so long as these are in a single Mentimeter presentation. Should a participant become disconnected for any reason, you can display the joining instructions again on any slide by pressing the ‘i’ shortcut key.

Controlling your presentation with 'Mentimote'

If you would like to use your phone as a remote control device to control your presentation, you can use Mentimote. Open a browser window on your phone and log in. Find the same Mentimeter presentation you are presenting on the console PC and select 'Open Mentimote' instead of the 'present' option. This allows you to move forward and back through your slides and it also allows you to manage various functions including:

• Opening and closing voting
• Showing or hiding responses
• Showing the voting instructions and QR code
• Blanking the screen
• Switching Q&A on or off
• Bringing questions up on the screen and marking them as answered
• Moderating responses

Using the 'insights' button

The insights button gathers together - in one place - all the different options that are available to you to explore the contributions you've received on questions. It can be found between the 'next' and 'previous' buttons bottom-left.

• For all question types, you can also add an 'open-ended follow up' allowing you to instantly add a new open-response question immediately after any question slide.
• For open responses, you can use the insights button to access the options to activate the AI-powered grouping and summarising tools or to switch on the option for participants to vote on open responses.
• For presentations including more than one multiple-choice question, you can access the segmentation option, allowing you to instantly see a breakdown of the responses to MCQ question 2 based on responses to question 1, allowing you and your students to explore patterns in the data.

Using keyboard shortcuts

When presenting in Mentimeter, you can use keyboard shortcuts to manage presentation navigation and options. Shortcuts include:

H: Hide or show results – you can hide results until all students have responded to prevent bias and then show them when you are ready

I: Show voting instructions and QR code – useful for pauses in a presentation or for a minimally-disruptive reminder of how to connect to a Menti session.

T: Show test votes – You can use this before a session to try out a question and its options by viewing automated responses.

K: The meta-shortcut – brings up a list of all available keyboard shortcuts.

Open for full list of shortcut keys

Presenting

• →: Go to next slide
  
• ←: Go to previous slide
  
• P: Enter/Exit presentation
  
• ESC: Exit presentation
  
• F: Toggle fullscreen
  
• B: Show or hide blank screen
  

Participation

• C: Turn off responses
  
• H: Hide or show responses
  
• D: Hide or show trends
  
• E: Enable or disable commenting
  
• L: Show joining code
  
• I: Show joining instructions and QR code
  
• T: Show example responses
  

Q&A

• Q: Show questions
  
• ENTER: Mark question as answered
  
• ↓: Go to next question
  
• ↑: Go to previous question
  

Countdown (you can press multiple buttons to add to the countdown total)

• 1: 1 minute countdown
  
• 2: 2 minute countdown
  
• 3: 3 minute countdown
  
• 4: 4 minute countdown
  
• 5: 5 minute countdown
  
• 8: 30 seconds countdown
  
• 9: 10 seconds countdown
  
• 0: Cancel countdown
  

Survey mode

By default, Mentimeter presentations run in 'presentation mode'. The only slide visible to participants on their devices is the one shown on the presentation screen and the movement between slides is controlled by the presenter.

However, you can also switch to 'survey mode' if you would like participants to be able to work through questions in their own time. This can be used to allow groups and individuals to respond at their own pace during teaching sessions, or to gather responses in advance of sessions for feedback, follow up, or to seed activities and discussion in the session itself. Survey mode makes all the question types and features in Mentimeter available for asynchronous access to support online learning and independent study between live sessions. The recommended way of incorporating Mentimeter presentations within Blackboard Ultra VLE sites is to use the Mentimeter LTI.

For more information about survey mode and the Blackboard LTI, see the Asynchronous use of Mentimeter page.