Eden Digital, LSE
Getting Started with Mentimeter
- Eden Digital Education Team
This guide will provide you the necessary information to access Mentimeter either as a creator or as a participant. Within the guide you will also be signposted to further resources available within the Mentimeter Help Centre.
Table of Contents
1. Logging into Mentimeter
To create/access your Mentimeter account under the LSE license, you will always need to log-in with SSO (Single Sign-On).
You can log in via SSO automatically by heading to mentimeter.com/join/lse using your LSE credentials and following the prompts.
Otherwise, you can follow this manual process:
Go to the Mentimeter homepage
Click on the ‘Log in’ button in the upper right corner of the homepage
At the bottom of the login page, click on ‘Log in with SSO’ (indicated below)
Enter ‘lse’ as the company name and click on ‘Log in’
Once you have set up your account through LSE SSO, you should be automatically signed in. If you try to log in through the Mentimeter interface, it will remind you that your account is connected to SSO and prompt you to use this process.
If you have any issues with logging in through SSO, please contact tech.support@lse.ac.uk
2. Creating presentations and polls
From the Home screen, click the ‘New Menti’ button to create a new blank Menti. You can also click on the small arrow next to that button to specifically select a new quiz or survey style.
If selecting ‘New survey’ it is important to keep in mind that this will allow for participants to move through the slides in the presentation at their own pace instead of the the presenter controlling what slide will be shown to the audience on their voting devices. To learn more take a look at the ‘How to conduct a survey with Mentimeter’ guide.
You will be taken directly to the Edit view, where you can choose to begin from scratch, use a template, or import slides from an existing presentation:
To learn more about the various types of slides (interactive and content) take a look at the Create your first presentation guide or watch the short video below.
3. Exploring the interactive question types
There are a number of interactive question types which are available for you to select from.
A few of the most commonly used interactive question types are:
Multiple Choice: participants will choose only from a few pre-defined options.
Word Clouds: participants input their thoughts and ideas to create a visual representation.
Open Ended: participants can type in free-text answers (up to 200 characters at a time).
Ranking: participants are provided with a list of items and rank them in a certain order.
Scales: participants submit numeric answers or rate statements.
However, there are a number of other question types in Mentimeter to consider how to engage your audience!
If you are using the Mentimeter Add-in for PowerPoint please note that only the core question types can be created/edited from within the Add-in.
4. Creating and changing themes
If you would prefer not to use the LSE General default theme it is possible to either create your own theme or change to another existing theme.
You can create your own theme by locating ‘Themes’ and selecting ‘Create’ to get started. There are number of things to considered when creating your own themes in Mentimeter.
If you would simply like to select another existing theme scroll down to ‘Default themes’ where you will find ready-made themes available within Mentimeter. Just click on one of the themes to activate it.
5. Participating in polls or surveys
There are three different ways for your audience to connect to your Mentimeter presentation and start participating:
Join via the join code at menti.com
Join via a QR code
Join via a join link
Join via a join code
When you create your presentation, a temporary join code used for accessing the presentation appears at the top of the presentation:
The most common way for your audience to start participating is for them to go to www.menti.com on their device (usually a mobile phone, but it can also be a computer or tablet) and enter that code in the text field:
Join via a QR code
Another way to join is by connecting to the presentation via a QR code. Simply open the camera on your device and scan the QR code to join.
The presenter can share the QR code ahead of time, or display it live during the presentation.
Join via a join link
The last way to join is by connecting to the presentation via a link. When clicking on the link your audience will get direct access to participate in the presentation.
Access the links below to see a participant’s view of responding to Mentimeter polls:
6. Sharing and Resetting Presentation Results
After a presentation, you may wish to also share the results with the participants. This can be done through the following options within your Mentimeter account:
Once you have shared the results you may wish to reset the results if you will be using this presentation again in the future. It is possible to reset the results from a session and save the data for later or permanently delete the results.
7. Mentimeter Academy
The Mentimeter Academy offers a series of free self-paced courses to learn more about Mentimeter and how to create presentations and polls. Also, when you complete a Menti Academy course you will receive a certificate of completion to track your learning.
For those new to Mentimeter, the "Getting Started with Mentimeter: Beginner’s Course" is a great option to help you get started with creating presentations and polls on Mentimeter.
There is also a “Progressing with Mentimeter: Intermediate Course” for those users who are more experienced in using Mentimeter in addition to a number of other insightful courses.
This guide is provided by Eden.Digital, LSE Eden Centre and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License