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Dealing with results

Summary

How to display results and how to analyse them to support teaching.

Displaying results

When you display a Mentimeter presentation, the results can be shown on the screen as they come in from participants. You can also select to hide the responses to questions until students have answered.

UoY feedback

In knowledge checking MCQ questions, students prefer the answers to be hidden as they are received so they can respond without being influenced by the answers of others.

For word clouds, students like to see ideas as they emerge. See the following Mentimeter guide to learn how to show or hide responses.

Using responses to support teaching

Results can be used to guide feedback or further teaching. They can be used as a start point for discussion in groups, or for individual reflection by, for example, asking students to briefly compare their own responses with others or to identify responses from others that meet particular criteria.

During a session, you can use the 'insights' button for immediate access to options to help you explore contributions including:

  • adding an open-ended follow up questions to explore reasons for responses
  • using 'segmentation' to analyse relationships between different multiple-choice questions
  • using AI grouping of open responses to make it easier to give feedback on a wider range of responses
  • enabling voting on open responses.

After your session, you can explore results in more detail from the results page. You can also download the responses as an excel file or in accessible pdf format.

You can also use the 'AI Assistant' to engage with results from within and across presentations, for example allowing you to prompt for summaries or suggestions for further actions or follow up questions. See Using AI in Mentimeter.

Case study: Using Mentimeter to check understanding and adapt teaching approaches

Nick Wood (Department of Chemistry) describes how he uses the results available from common question types during live teaching sessions to check understanding, giving students time to consider their responses and setting out to make sure that the process contributes positively to building understanding rather than uncovering issues that cannot realistically be addressed in the time available. He advises only doing this for more complex questions in smaller teaching sessions rather than large lectures and stresses the impoprtance of having a back-up plan if questions reveal fundamental misconceptions, for example by using the VLE to provide supplementary notes or screen recordings.

Watch their presentation:

What works (for me) in Chemistry (Panopto viewer) (15 mins 15 secs, UoY log-in required)

See the full case study for more details and the transcript. You can also browse our full set of case studies.

Sharing your presentation and results

You can share a presentation link with your participants using ‘Share – Results’, change the permissions to ‘Anyone with the link can access’ and ‘copy link’.

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Further instructions on this with screenshots are available on Mentimeter’s share a presentation link page.

If you share the presentation link with participants, they will be able to use it to open the presentation and navigate independently through the slides and view any existing results.

You can also copy an embed code from ‘Share – Results’ which can be used to display the results of presentation in a document within the VLE. This can be done to share the results from a live session or from an asynchronous Menti. See the guide to the Document HTML block for details of how to do this in the VLE. Remember to include a link with the embed so that it can be viewed in full screen if needed. NB. if you use the Blackboard Mentimeter LTI tool to embed a Menti presentation in the VLE, this will allow studentst to respond asynchronously but you will still need to display the results in a subsequent session or embed them separately to share them with your students.

You can download the results in Excel or accessible pdf in order to add them to your VLE sites.

Warning

If the results form an important part of the teaching record for your module, you should always download them from Mentimeter and include them in your VLE site rather than relying solely on sharing the Mentimeter presentation itself. As with all digital resources, it is essential to consider accessibility.