Mentimeter
Mentimeter helps make your presentations and teaching more interactive, with live polls, quizzes and feedback. You can also use Mentimeter as an asynchronous survey tool, allowing participants to respond in their own time.
Key features
- Presentation mode: Create polls ahead of time and share them during presentations, lectures and seminars.
- Survey mode: let participants respond in their own time. Suitable for online learning and independent study between live sessions.
- Suitable for online, hybrid and in-person sessions.
- Use flexible question types, including multiple-choice, ranking, scales, word clouds and open-ended questions.
- Participants respond via their device’s web browser. In a live session, they can scan a QR code or enter the session code at menti.com to connect to your presentation. For surveys, you can provide a link for them to follow.
- Responses are completely anonymous.
- See results as they come in and share them after the session
- Quickly analyse responses with automatic grouping and summaries, powered by AI.
Access instructions
- Log in with your University username and password. Duo two-factor authentication is required.
- For help, see our guide to logging in to Mentimeter.
Available to staff and students
You can use this service on University-managed and personal devices.
Web-based
This service works in your web browser.
Funded by the University
There isn’t a cost to you for standard use.
Access instructions
- Log in with your University username and password. Duo two-factor authentication is required.
- For help, see our guide to logging in to Mentimeter.
Related tools
Guides and help
How-to guides and set up
- Using Mentimeter
- Requirements for running Mentimeter (mentimeter.com)
Training and best practice
- Present with accessibility and inclusion in mind (mentimeter.com) - how you can implement Mentimeter effectively.
- Case studies: explore how staff at York use Mentimeter to support active and inclusive learning.
Accessibility
- Mentimeter's accessibility statement (mentimeter.com)
Contact for support
If you’re experiencing technical issues and need advice, please contact the Digital Education Team.
Service commitments
- Mentimeter has robust data protection measures in place but it should never be used to process internal, confidential or special categories of personal data, nor any other personal data that is particularly worthy of protection.
- You will only use the platform in connection with the role you have at the University, which may involve teaching, studying or research, administration or management.
- You will not use the platform for any private or commercial purposes.
Availability
- This is a live service, available 24/7.
Support
- This service is managed by a third party.
- They are responsible for monitoring, identifying and fixing faults. The Digital Education Team (aka VLE Support) provides advice and support for local issues during their opening hours.
Standards
- The Digital Education Team’s service performance and standards have been produced in consultation with customers, and monitor the quality, timeliness and access to facilities and services.
- The standard service level agreement for this service is three working days.
We appreciate feedback as it helps us review and continually improve this service. To submit feedback, please email the Digital Education Team.
Page last reviewed: 15 January 2025