This guide will walk you through the steps to seamlessly integrate Mentimeter into your PowerPoint presentations. By following these instructions, you’ll be able to enhance your slides with interactive live polls and real-time audience engagement.
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1. Inserting the Mentimeter Add-In
To integrate Mentimeter into your PowerPoint presentation, navigate to the slide where you want to add the Mentimeter content.
Click on the ‘Home’ tab and then from‘Add-ins’ (located in the far right side of the menu) you can select the Mentimeter add-in .
The Mentimeter add-in which will then appear on your slide as an interactive image which can be moved and adjusted in size.
2. Logging into Mentimeter from the PowerPoint Add-In
To login to your Mentimeter account from within the PowerPoint Add-In, click on ‘Log in with SSO’.
This will prompt you to select ‘Log in’ and be redirected to Mentimeter in the web-browser where you will login and a verification code will be shared with you to input into the PowerPoint Add-In.
3. Adding Mentimeter content to your presentation
Create new content using the Add-In
You can create Mentimeter questions directly within PowerPoint by selecting ‘New Menti’.
Note: Only the core question types can be created / edited from with the PPT Add-in
Multiple Choice
Word Cloud
Open Ended
Scales
Ranking
Quiz (Select Answer, Type Answer and Leaderboard)
Hover over the question types to display a preview and simply click on the one you would like to use.
On the right hand side you will be able access the Content, Design and Settings options to create / edit your Mentimeter question.
Use existing Mentimeter questions
You can add existing content directly from your Mentimeter account by selecting ‘Use an existing Menti’.
Select the existing Mentimeter presentation you wish to link and then click ‘Add’ to insert the question into your PowerPoint Presentation. You will be able to edit the question once it appears within the Add-in.
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Only one existing Mentimeter presentation can be linked using the PowerPoint Add-in at once. To link an alternative presentation you will need to ‘Disconnect’ any previously linked presentations |
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Use the Disconnect to unlink an existing Mentimeter presentation and link an alternative or create new content from within the PowerPoint Add-in itself.  |
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To include existing content which is not a core question type, you can access the old version of the add-in to include it within your PowerPoint presentation. Please note that you will unable to edit this content from directly within PowerPoint though. |
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