Mentimeter, a tool to create interactive presentations and assess students
Poll and survey creatorsQuiz/exercise makersMany To OneVocabularyGrammarTeacherStudentYou Supply
Description: Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool that helps users engage their audience through live polls, quizzes, word clouds, and other interactive features. Users create presentations on the Mentimeter platform and incorporate interactive elements such as multiple-choice questions, open-ended questions, quizzes, surveys, and brainstorming activities. Respondents access the presentation through a code and answer anonymously. Presenters can then project Mentimeter and see the results in real time. Mentimeter offers both free and premium plans. Users can access Mentimeter without signing up for an account. However, presenters have to sign up to create and manage presentations and gather audience responses. Mentimeter was developed by a team of software developers and designers based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Evaluation: Mentimeter is a valuable tool for the classroom since it allows teachers to gather information about their audience and feedback from their audience in real-time. It can serve the purpose of enhancing participation, assessing knowledge, and facilitating discussions. The fact that responses can be submitted anonymously allows teachers to, for instance, ask who has done their homework or understood the class content, while students can answer without fear of being exposed. Furthermore, the word wall option can also be useful to encourage shy students to share their opinions in brainstorming sessions, since questions can be answered at the same time publicly and anonymously. Asking for 3-word feedback from participants and displaying it instantly as a word cloud can also be a valuable feature. Finally, Mentimeter could be an interesting tool to check students’ knowledge before a test, so that teachers can identify where more input is needed and which content has been well understood. On the other hand, responder anonymity might encourage some students to pull pranks. Average IT skills required.
Cost: Free limited version.
Type Of Interaction:
Individual work,
Skills:
Vocabulary,
Grammar,
Content:
You supply,
Usability and tech notes ▼
Time efficiency 
Time needed to learn how to use a tool and its time-saving potential: High.
Interface language(s) The number of languages in which the tool is currently available/adaptable to: Over 30 languages.
Respect for privacy Privacy evaluations indicate how a tool handles personal data collection, storage, and sharing, including GDPR compliance and security measures, among others. The ICT-REV team provides them for informational purposes, reflecting our best understanding at the time of review, but assumes no legal responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these evaluations and encourages users to conduct their own assessments: Medium. Mentimeter collects user data for different purposes, among which marketing. Mentimer does not share or sell user data to third parties for commercial purposes. It acknowledges the importance of data security, and it stores data only in the EU. Mentimeter allows users to delete their surveys, results, and accounts. It also acknowledges users’ rights to access, rectify, or erase data. Mentimeter complies with the GDPR. See more here.
Saving work for future use Can work be saved for future use?: Yes, users with an account can save the results of their Mentimeters.