Mentimeter

A smart tool that looks slick but has some frustrating limitations

Kommentare: We like Mentimeter a lot. You can be up and running with it in minutes, and it takes literally seconds to create a typical wordcloud or other slide. It looks amazing to those answering the questions. There are downsides though and I hope future updates will add functionality and improve the experience for paying users.

Vorteile:

Mentimeter allows you to easily (very easily) create and launch live, interactive polls, surveys and quizzes and create cool things like wordclouds in real time. It has a really smooth mobile integration through the use of QR codes which is a killer feature in the modern age. We have frequently had "wow moments" in meetings, workshops and training sessions using Mentimeter as people see animated quiz standing come in in real time and the like. Zero learning curve from the users point of view and almost frictionless.

Nachteile:

It has a few limitations that make it less slick from the point of view of the person using it compared to the people answering the questions. It does not integrate well with Powerpoint. There is an outdated and never updated plug in which crashes all the time and thus unusable. The other option is to import your slides into Mentimeter and do the whole thing from there. This is not always advisable because animations are not preserved and the general look of the slides suffers. Without PPT integration, if you are running a remote session using Zoom or similar you are forcing people to navigate away from your window to use Mentimeter and then relying on them coming back to see the results come in in real time. It damages the experience tremendously. You get around this by showing QR codes and having them do it on their phones, but still, not ideal. Another issue is that moving or otherwise adjusting slide shows inside Mentimeter is a huge pain. Drag and drop to change the order of slides is basically broken, so me and my team always make sure everything is in order before importing (if we even use importing, see above). Even a no-integrated session with more than a few Mentimeter slides is a huge pain to adjust. Finally, although they claim that switching between say PPT and Mentimeter on the fly is easy, it inhibits you from easily and smoothly moving to the next question. Not ideal.

Mentimeter is a great survey tool!

Kommentare: Overall, I love mentimeter. It is a great tool and has helped boost out feedback culture!

Vorteile:

I love mentimeter! It makes it so easy to create engaging surveys - the templates with survey styles - like word clouds, ranking, and pie charts - are so helpful to be able to quickly produce engaging surverys

Nachteile:

I wish there was more customization available - even on the pro package you are limited by the layouts you can choose and where images can be placed on the slides

Menti, once a great product now practically useless

Kommentare: It was great from 2020 to 2023. It is now completely useless in 2024. Company refuses to issue a refund for my remaining balance of 2024 despite being a long-term user. Avoid at all costs!

Vorteile:

Quizzes used to be great, fun, engaging, and impactful before the degradation of the program in 2024

Nachteile:

In 2024 it is now completely useless. No more leaderboards for the quizzes (all my leaderboards from 3 years of saved quizzes have disappeared with no way to bring them back). In 2024, you are now forced to use templates that quite honestly suck beyond belief - they look like some a grade schooler would put together.

Mentimeter reduces barriers in the classroom

Kommentare: Love it - it's a wonderful pedagogical tool that helps me to connect with all of my students.

Vorteile:

I love that I can collect real-time responses from my students - quantitative and qualitative data. Allows my shy students to provide their voice in a non-threatening manner.

Nachteile:

I have the free version only so I'm limited on what I can do.

Mentimeter review

Vorteile:

Mentimeter provides a wide range of functionalities for live presentations. It allows to engage participants interactively.

Nachteile:

I have not noticed any major issues with Mentimeter so far.

After many years of loyalty, we can't suggest Mentimeter to anyone now...

Vorteile:

Interactivity was fantastic when we originally migrated to Mentimeter. Loves the creativity and ingenuity of the team.

Nachteile:

Their app recently stopped working properly: Because of a change the company made, audiences can't effectively use browsers to participate and vote during presentations. Sadly, their customer service folks responded with a fix may never come. So we can't keep investing all of our presentation materials on a platform that handles issues with longtime customers like this. This also means we are in the process of canceling not only our subscriptions but dozens of our clients that we help handle their tech purchasing. We can't stand behind companies that handle things like this. We stand behind companies even more than products, so we are sad to have this happen.

Good start

Vorteile:

Mentimeter has a great on the spot survey/knowledge check feature.

Nachteile:

Price and limited features compare to Kahoots

Engaging and Easy to Use

Kommentare: A good user experience overall, plenty of features

Vorteile:

easy to use Flexibility Sharing with others Customisable Variety of layouts/options

Nachteile:

A bit hit and miss in integrating into ppt. Sometimes had to exit ppt and present from web browser

Excellent choice

Vorteile:

Create engaging, interactive, and collaborative presentations that drive audience participation and feedback is so easy with Mentimeter.

Nachteile:

Mentimeter requires a stable internet connection to function, which can be a problem if the connection is slow or unreliable.While Mentimeter offers a range of customization options, some users may find that the platform's design and layout limitations can be restrictive.

Great for presentations and training

Vorteile:

I like that it is easy to use, that it keeps on improving, it is essential for our training, whether we use it in person or online. I recommend it to everyone.

Nachteile:

I think it can keep innovating, and become a tool with other things, we use other tools like MIRO, MURAL or KAHOOT, and would rather have one platform for everything.

Excellent tool for presentations and feedback!

Vorteile:

I just love Mentimeter, it is so easy to use and so nice to see the results, therea are the options you have to choose for the result. I like the word cloud the best and the polls for activities I use weekly with my students.

Nachteile:

There is nothing I don't like about the app. However for the free use you have just 2 slides to use. For more than 2 slides you have to buy a plan.

I use it in teaching

Vorteile:

I use it to get response from everyone when having a lecture in front of 25-100 people. Works great.

Nachteile:

I would like to be able to remove a certain comment in real time. Sometimes students write something inappropriate or offensive and I don't want everyone to see that on the screen.

Great variety of poll questions

Vorteile:

Like the variety of poll questions it has, making so easy the creation

Nachteile:

the images in the presentation should improve

Presentation and interaction

Vorteile:

Perfect and simple tool to make presentations and interact with The audience by posing questions, charts, and more.

Nachteile:

Sometimes presentation is not always updated on the mobiles/computers and a refresh is needed.

A better software than PowerPoint

Vorteile:

Being able to interact with viewers instantly makes this software more eye-catching than competitors such as Microsoft, simply because of this innovation has allowed Mentimeter to be a clear choice when someone wants to measure how attentive their audience is and make the viewer feel that they are being heard.

Nachteile:

The fact that you have to pay for some tools makes some people not allow themselves to use this great software, it is true that it has some free tools and that you can work with them without any problem, but the fact that you are always receiving a notice to pay, ruins the experience of the software.

Great for maximising employee engagement and Q&A discussions...

Kommentare: When it works, it really works. We most recently used Mentimeter at our last internal staff training event. We had a room of about 30 employees, all who connected on their phones for the interactive part of our presentation. We hosted a 'Health and Safety' quiz, and employees loved seeing their results show up on the main presentation behind us. We were also able to export the results, and analyse the level of competence in the room - brilliant! We use Mentimeter for internal staff events every 3-4 months and it has changed the level of engagement dramatically. All staff members now interact, and are deeply immersed in the presentation itself.

Vorteile:

Mentimeter has been a great platform for engaging with our employees at our internal staff events. It has also increased audience participation overall enabling us to gain insightful feedback and opinions from all staff members, introverts and extroverts alike. My favourite feature is the 'leaderboard' for hosting live quizzes, followed by the 'Q&A' feature. The latter is especially effective when you have a more reserved audience - they can submit their questions to the main presenter at the tap of button, ensuring their voice has been heard. It is easy to use and user friendly for those who are attending a presentation. Most importantly, the tool has enabled us to canvas the opinion of our staff members and engage with those who may not have felt like participating before. You can create Mentimeter presentations to match your corporate brand too. Moreover, if you are familiar with Microsoft Powerpoint, you will have no problem getting used to this software.

Nachteile:

For those people who are not tech savvy at all, it can be a lengthy process of getting someone to "connect to WIFI", "open browser", "type in mentimeter URL", "type in presentation code". Indeed, if someone can facilitate their set up, the rest is easy - this is what we have done in the past and will continue to do so until everyone is familiar. I would love to see more ideas from Mentimenter on how to use the software to its very best, particularly from different angles - e.g. marketing teams, training providers, HR interviewers, etc...

Mentimeter - A great tool to collaborate with your audience!

Kommentare: Overall I think Mentimeter is a fun engaging tool and can be relied upon to engage with your audience. If you are looking to get a real-time feedback from your audience and the result to be shared with them instantly, then Mentimeter is the tool to use. Internally, it's a great way to gather feedback from employees, while staying anonymous.

Vorteile:

Mentimeter provides an easy way to engage with your audience in minutes. The polls can be customized in minutes and they are both desktop and mobile friendly.

Nachteile:

What we like the least is the number of customizations. Mentimeter needs to allow more customizations, especially on the theming side and the slide templates. Often times audience also complaints about being unable to vote or reach the slides, so I hope this is improved soon.

Mentimeter makes presentations engagning

Kommentare: Love Mentimeter! It's a great way to get your audience to participate and even guide your presentation where it needs to go based on their needs. I get the best results when I ask the audience what they want to learn and since it can be annoymous I get loads of participation and engagement.

Vorteile:

I LOVE that you can integrate this into MS Powerpoint because I have seen so many presentations go from boring to engaging with Mentimeter. It helps that you can introduce a new topic and pull audiences back in with the use of this. Plus, you don't need any additional hardware since is web based.

Nachteile:

If you have a whole lot of text or long questions and answer choices, it does affect the clean look of it. So if you write a whole lot or like to ask detailed questions, this may not look as nice.

Easy to engage with viewers

Kommentare: It makes it easy for presenters to involve their audience in their presentation.

Vorteile:

I like how Mentimeter can make it easy for viewers of your presentation to become participants. No need to download anything, as they can just go to the website and fill in the provided code.

Nachteile:

People do need to have a smart device or laptop, connected to internet, to participate in presentations. And having the audience grab a device, can also cause them to become distracted.

Your virtual bonds with the audience

Kommentare: Mentimeter makes my teaching more effective. I also use it as I lead my students to generate mind maps about any topic. They love seeing their voices heard in the presentation the moment they interact.

Vorteile:

The templates are easy to use. The animations are engaging. My audience love being a part of the presentation.

Nachteile:

Nothing so far as it meets all my expectations. It may be a bit time consuming to enter the code so using QR codes may be a better option.

Perfect voting/interaction tool for presentation!

Kommentare: Perfect tool that goes with the online meeting/presentation

Vorteile:

Voters/Attendees of an online meeting can access the website easily via laptop/smartphone without any VPN (you just need a key from the organizer) All votes are anonymous so opinions can be expressed more freely Users can also raise questions using the same tool All kinds of data visualization for text/statistics

Nachteile:

Nothing to complain as an users. I'm not sure if the poll/questionnaire is ease to organize as a host.

Great tool for recognizing colleagues

Vorteile:

Mentimeter allows people to add “kudos” or general comments for a much larger group to view during a meeting. I like how the feedback constantly scrolls for the viewer; it keeps your interest. I also like that you can save and email the entire file at a later time.

Nachteile:

There’s nothing I don’t like about this tool. It’s very helpful in large group settings!

Great for audience participation

Vorteile:

Even after covid Zoom meetings, Mentimeter is still a great tool for engaging an audience during a presentation. Great way to hear from many voices without passing around a microphone.

Nachteile:

It's not totally necessary but some more adjustable visual features would be cool. ie colors, fonts

Educators Love Mentimeter

Kommentare: I am impressed to the features offer in free version. I am also thankful that they have free version rather than free trial. Amazing app for us educators.

Vorteile:

I am an educator and tried using this in my presentation to other teachers. I love it in a way that we can interact. You can create Multiple Choice Questions, open ended questions and Q & A. You can even edit per slide for the layout. We can add images or videos as well in your slide. This is cool that it has free version, then you can save your presentations.

Nachteile:

Of course, if you wanted more features they will ask you subscribe. Also, because only few knows this great interactive platform, it takes time to explain how it works. We wish that through this, more educators will explore this great platform for our students.

A good software to keep interest of the participant in a lecture

Vorteile:

the quiz is really useful to keep the participant alive in the lecture.

Nachteile:

difficult to embed in PowerPoint. sometimes it is stuck when run as an embedded item in a PowerPoint slide.