Mentimeter pilot 25/26
Designed to support real-time feedback for teaching and learning, UAL has purchased a Mentimeter license for all staff and students for 25-26, as a pilot project. Read the Canvas story here.
What is Mentimeter?
Mentimeter is an interactive tool which can be used to enhance student participation and engagement in both face-to-face and online classes. Using slides, Mentimeter has a variety of question types and prompts. It can also be used asynchronously, gathering contributions outside the classroom.
There are lots of different question types in Menti. For example:
- Multiple Choice: great for quizzes or quick knowledge checks.
- Word Cloud: perfect for brainstorming or gauging opinions.
- Open-Ended: useful for deeper reflections or feedback. Also good for starting a class (Entry Ticket) and at the end of a class to see what information has stuck with the students (Exit Ticket).
- Scales: rate agreement or confidence (e.g. How confident are you about today’s topic?).
- Ranking: prioritise topics, ideas, or preferences.
Why use it?
Online tools such as Mentimeter can help broaden participation, making it easier for all students to offer their thoughts and ideas, and create more opportunities for learning and engagement, particularly in large classes.
- Confidence: anonymity and seeing others’ ideas can help with finding the confidence to contribute and ask questions.
- Opportunity: sometimes it’s hard for quieter students to find a way to be heard. Mentimeter can create more opportunities to contribute in different ways.
- Feedback loop: Mentimeter makes it easier for teaching staff to ask for and receive a broad range of feedback on what has been taught and how students are feeling. This in turn allows teachers to focus on what is really needed.
- Engagement: Mentimeter, and other online platforms, support active learning, increasing cognitive engagement and, potentially, acquisition and retention.
How do I access it?
Go to menti.arts.ac.uk and choose the Log in with SSO option in the bottom right.
You can add your UAL email address or artslondon, then Continue, and it will take you to your menti account!
Where can I get training?
The CSM Digital learning team will be offering regular training sessions throughout the year. The next sessions will be:
More training materials will be available on the UAL Digital Education blog.
You can find out more on the Mentimeter website, including Case studies, or visit the Mentimeter YouTube channel,
Already have an account?
If you already have an account using your UAL email address, your account will be automatically added to the UAL workspace on Mentimeter. If you are using a different email and would like to be added to the UAL workspace, you can change it in your Profile settings and you will be automatically added.