Case study: Using Mentimeter Q&A slides for anonymous questions

Department of Psychology
Sally Quinn

Sally Quinn describes how she uses Q&A slides to elicit and deal with questions anonymously from students during teaching sessions.

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So I've used the Q&A slides before; these are quite useful because it's slightly better than the open-ended response options, because it brings up one question at a time and you can kind of tag it as answered and then it disappears. We use these quite often with our cohort meetings where we have a meeting either online or in person with a whole cohort, and they can ask us questions about their degree course. So this is really useful because you can kind of deal with them one at a time as they come in. You can actually set it to moderate it as well so that you see them before the students see them, so you can get rid of any perhaps inappropriate questions. I've never really experienced any inappropriate questions using this. But it might be something that you can use if you are a bit kind of nervous about the potential questions that can come up. Because with this Q&A slide, you don't actually see the questions until you've kind of ticked one as being answered and then the next one pops up so you don't really see them unless you kind of ask to moderate them beforehand. But they are really useful for kind of basic student questions. Some people I know use them at the end of the lecture so that students, if they've got any questions they can use Menti just to ask some questions about the content they've just covered. So that's another way in which that could be used.