Mentimeter: Live Polling at the LSE

Use Mentimeter to create live polls, quizzes, word clouds and more. It can be used in teaching, meetings, and events to support engagement, feedback and interaction, whether live or asynchronous

Audience

This guide is for LSE teaching staff and professional services colleagues using Mentimeter to support learning, communication or evaluation.

What is Mentimeter?

Mentimeter is a web-based tool that allows you to ask questions and receive responses in real time. Participants use their own devices (phone, tablet or laptop) to vote or reply.

Use cases include:

• Large lectures: encourage broad participation

• Seminars: gather views or check understanding

• Meetings: quick input or decision-making

• Events: anonymous Q&A, feedback, or brainstorming

Why use it?

• Interactive: invites participation from all attendees

• Inclusive: anonymous mode reduces performance anxiety

• Agile: responses allow live adaptation of teaching or discussion

• Feedback-rich: collect thoughts or reflections in structured form

• Flexible: used across teaching, events, and internal meetings

Key Features

Training and Support

• Introductory workshops offered by the Digital Education team

• 1:1 support available via eden.digital@lse.ac.uk

• Departmental onboarding available for teams previously using PointSolutions

Resources

• Mentimeter Academy: https://www.mentimeter.com/academy

• External Help articles: https://help.mentimeter.com/

• LSE Mentimeter Resource course on Moodle.