Group feedback (Mentimeter)

Account holders can:

• create an infinite number of presentations
• share the content to live audiences
• allow the audience to participate online in the activities presented.

As a Charles Sturt staff member, you can access a Mentimeter enterprise licence. This means you can use the full suite of presentation and engagement tools available.

Why use Mentimeter?

• It's intuitive. The Mentimeter interface makes it easy to build and launch activities and share these with a live audience.
• Online audience engagement is a critical attribute for many educators, particularly as more students study online. Mentimeter is a great way to quickly involve your live audience in your teaching, with activities including:
  • ice breakers
  • brainstorming
  • changing perspectives over time
  • game-based learning.
• It can be launched live from within Zoom via the Mentimeter marketplace app (zoom marketplace). This means you can retrieve and launch Mentimeter activities from within any Zoom Meeting you attend.
• It allows you to transition live online teaching away from purely didactic, to a more collaborative delivery medium.
• Mentimeter activities remain live until you stop them. You can use a html embed code to situate your live activity within other online platforms (e.g. inside your Interact 2 subject sites). This means your activity can become asynchronous. Users can click on a voting portal link to provide their own responses and see the impact of these choices via embedded results.

Access

CSU staff have access to a full enterprise licence for Mentimeter. Follow these steps to create/access your account and start building:

• Go to https://mentimeter.com
• Click on either 'Log in' or 'Sign up'
• Look for the 'Log in via SSO' (single sign on) or 'Sign up with SSO' links
• Provide the name of the institution - 'Charles Sturt University', then 'Authenticate'
• This will trigger the CSU login screen. You may need to log in with your staff credentials, or it will pass you through automatically (if you have already signed in on your device for other services).
• The Mentimeter 'builder' interface will open – you can now begin creating presentations and activities.

Exemplars and how-to guides

For a full run down on the available types of Mentimeter activities, please refer to:

• An Introduction to Mentimeter - Quick Guide PDF
• DLT Workshop: Online Audience Engagement Tools 
• Using the Mentimeter Zoom marketplace app - Quick Guide PDF
• Education Templates (Mentimeter.com)