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Using AI within Mentimeter

Summary

Mentimeter provides an 'AI Assistant' option for you to use AI (OpenAI) during the creation of Mentimeter presentations and questions, and in order to analyse and make use of your results.

You will see the ‘AI assistant’ tab in any existing or new presentation where you can choose from suggested actions or add your own prompts.

Using AI tools effectively

AI-generated content is a starting point for your own content development rather than a finished product. You must always carefully check that output is accurate and appropriate for your intended use and adapt as needed.

See our general guide to Artificial Intelligence tools for more details on using AI responsibly.

Creating / editing Mentimeter presentations

You can use the 'AI assistant' to build a draft presentation. This allows you to develop content and questions slides from prompts or by uploading existing presentations or related files. Once uploaded, you will be taken through a step-by-step process of prompting to clarify your preferences before the presentation is created in Mentimeter.

Analysing and using results

For presentations with results, the AI assistant provides a summary of responses and allows you to explore different aspects of the results using prompts. The results page also includes an initial AI-produced summary of 'key insights' from the results.

As well as allowing you to explore the results from within an individual presentation, the AI assistant can also be used to explore results across multiple presentations.

Example: Exploring results from multiple sessions using the AI assistant

Prompt: Can you compare the results for me from across the different sessions that I have run with staff entitled 'Getting started with Mentimeter'. Please identify any trends in the results over time and suggest recommended changes or follow ups related to the session plan.

Output The clearest trends come from September 2024, January 2025, September 2025 and February 2026. The results cover each Menti’s latest available session only, not every session it may have run.

Trends over time

  • Staff consistently value engagement and participation. In September 2024, people hoped to learn how to use Menti to engage students. In September 2025, responses named engagement and participation as benefits. In February 2026, “engagement” and “interactive” were the most repeated ideas in the Word Cloud.
  • Anonymity and active participation stand out. These ranked highest among the benefits in September 2024 and February 2026. That suggests it would be useful to make time in the session to explain how participation and anonymity work.
  • Interest in practical, technical guidance persists. Questions across sessions asked about accounts, sharing Mentis, using PowerPoint or Google Slides, Q&A, and whether responses are anonymous. In September 2025, one participant specifically asked for more on integrating Menti into presentations; another asked for a post-session task.
  • The sessions appear useful, but the evidence is uneven. In September 2025, all five people who answered the feedback scales gave the highest score to each statement, including usefulness and whether the session was a good use of 30 minutes. In February 2026, ratings were also high: “Overall, it was useful” and “I learned something new” both averaged 5/5, based on four responses each. These are encouraging results, but the response counts are small.
  • Interest in question types varies. Multiple Choice scored well in the September 2025 and February 2026 ratings. In February 2026, Pin on Image also rated well, while Word Cloud, Open Ended and segmented Multiple Choice had lower averages. With small groups and different session versions, I’d use these as signals to explore rather than as a firm ranking.

Recommended changes and follow-ups

  • Keep the hands-on demonstrations, especially Multiple Choice and ways to encourage broad participation.
  • Add a focused practical segment on common setup questions: joining and accounts, sharing or reusing a Menti, response visibility and anonymity, Q&A, and presentation integrations.
  • End with a short practice task – for example, invite each participant to create one question for an upcoming class and try presenting it.
  • Keep a clear route for questions during the session, and group unanswered questions into a brief follow-up resource or message.
  • Improve the feedback check by asking separately whether participants feel ready to use Menti, what they still need help with, and which feature they plan to try. That would make the next session easier to tailor than a broad “useful” rating alone.

The strongest improvement opportunity is to connect the engaging demonstrations with a little more concrete setup guidance and a simple action participants can take after the session.

At the time of writing, the AI assistant is only available on the home screen to create new presentations. However, you can also access it from any existing presentation, so a recommended option if you would like to use it to explore results across multiple presentations is to keep a blank 'AI Assistant' presentation in your account that you can use for this purpose.

NB. The AI assistant can only access results from the last time the presentation was run. If you would like to be able to use it with all your results, you should [duplicate your presentations] to create a 'clean copy' rather than resetting results.

Open response grouping and summarising

Open responses can provide you with rich qualitative data, but it can be challenging to make sense of open responses in live sessions, especially in larger group teaching. The AI-powered open response grouping tool offers a useful start point for doing this in order to give feedback on a greater range of responses during teaching.

The AI Assistant was introduced at the start of the 2026-27 academic year and further information on this will be provided here.