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A joint entry from Cordelia and me, who use Mentimeter to run a fairly large quiz at the beginning of every term! This is our Student Orientation quiz, which challenges students to use handbooks, the website and their own brains to find answers to commonly-asked questions.

Using Menti means we can proceed through the quiz as a group (as opposed to, for example, Google Forms or Canvas quizzes), drawing attention to good resources for the trickier questions. When the quiz is done, we can scrub the responses and run it again in the next seminar! You can see the whole quiz in the attached PDF.

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Contemporary Themes Week 1 Workshop - Student Handbook Quiz

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I have found mentimeter useful when teaching for helping to assess the class 'mood' at the both beginning and ending of a session using word cloud. It is also useful during session for Q&A's as it can allow students to post anonymously which often encourages submission. It is also useful to use as an interactive quiz during sessions. I have encourages all the law staff to use mentimeter as much as possible

Joe Stevens

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For my Introduction to Law module on the Foundation Year this term I asked some of our staff from the Law Department to give guest lectures. The primary purpose of this was to expose the students to a variety of types of teaching. However, one drawback which arises from guest lectures for the primary instructor is a break in directing the learning process.

To bridge that space I have been using Mentimeter. Students were able to post questions and comments during the guest lecture as well as afterwards.

The synchronous and asynchronous use of Mentimeter allowed both students who attended the lecture as well as those who listened to the recording at home to note their questions and comments. This created a record for me to review. In this manner, I was able to identify and remedy any gaps in understanding while reinforcing salient points made in the guest lecture.

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I often use questions like this to gauge students' emotional reactions to the task we're about to give them. In this case I was asking them about their attitude towards salary negotiation because this is something they have to do in their AS2 for professional skills. This led to an interesting discussion on why they felt this way and the students who had expressed confidence were encouraged to speak up. I like doing this because it is an anonymous task and students who do have concerns are able to be more honest than they might be if they were simply asked to contribute their opinion.

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In this lecture we were discussing the impact of social media platforms on our professional online presence. At the beginning I posted this as a word cloud question to highlight he fact that students of different ages had different experiences of using social media and the impact that this had on the way the interact online and the way they might be perceived by employers. This got the students personally interested in the content of the lecture and how it related to them.

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Rebecca Collins
For University Mental Health Day, the Disability & Wellbeing team set up a mentimeter vote, asking staff and students how they look after their mental health. Engagement with mental health posts  is typically low across the sector so this was used to enable participants to  interact  anonymously in the hope it would increase engagement. It worked and we had 8 times more responses than for previous posts. As usual, the survey was posted on the Wellbeing Teams group, by email and as an announcement on Canvas. Once results were collected, these were shared on the various platforms along with a reminder of where staff/students can access support when the going gets tough.

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Mentimeter is an easy-to-use, interactive presentation software used live in lectures, seminars or any face to face or online teaching session. It also works well as a tool to be used asynchronously to, for example, 'temperature check' a current issue; act as a diagnostic of prior knowledge or check understanding after a taught session.

Mentimeter enables you to create polls, open and closed questions or even competitive quizzes, as well as providing a mechanism for students to pose questions or feed back to academic staff.

Encouraging participation in online lectures and assessment

In this video, Dr Martin Compton (Arena Centre) interviews Dr Ellie Pearce (Research Fellow in Division of Psychiatry) about how Mentimeter was used alongside Zoom breakout rooms to encourage participation and offer a shared focal point in live, online sessions as part of the response to campus closures in 2020-21.

A student on the MSc Clinical Mental Health Sciences, Fiona Lin, then goes on to describe how she and her peers responded to the Mentimeter use and how they then began using it as part of an assessment activity called 'Journal Club'.

Dr. Pearce concludes by explaining how, in turn, the teaching team were inspired by the students' use of Mentimeter, to use the software in a similar way.

Also of note are Fiona's responses to questions about gamified elements and the possibility of Mentimeter 'saturation':

I don't think there's any shame in having fun and enjoying learning in whatever capacity. I think the main thing is if it helps you to remember something or it helps you learn something, then it's doing its job and you had an enjoyable time so it's a win, win. - Fiona Lin, MSc Clinical Mental Health Sciences student.

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Mentimeter is an easy-to-use, interactive presentation software used live in lectures, seminars or any face to face or online teaching session. It also works well as a tool to be used asynchronously to, for example, 'temperature check' a current issue; act as a diagnostic of prior knowledge or check understanding after a taught session.