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Clean-up after the presentation is more than just good practice – read about the importance of sharing and resetting results, ending voting access and viewing historical data.
Export results
Mentimeter’s export results feature allows you to access and share results outside of the Mentimeter platform. This is useful for observing trends, anonymously assessing performance across multiple tutorial groups in large classes and providing feedback. Exporting results can also be helpful if you are planning to work offline or just want to share the results without sharing the presentation slides.
Share the presentation and results
Sharing your Mentimeter presentation allows you to give your audience ongoing access to the presentation and outcomes. The different sharing options allow you to specify individuals that you would like to share it with or to allow audience members to download the results themselves after the session.
Why share results?
Sharing the results of your poll with your audience allow you to:
- reference the information outside the class
- share the information with students and staff who did not attend the live session
- use Mentimeter presentations in asynchronous activities
There are three different ways to share results with others:
- Share a link to the presentation screen – this feature allows you to share the presentation slides along with the results with specific people before, during and after the presentation; this is not the same link as the link needed for voting but rather allows collaboration with other Mentimeter users that can add the presentation.
- Let audience download results after presentation – this default option lets anyone participating in the poll opt in to receive an email at the end of the presentation to access and download the result; they can also copy the presentation to their own Mentimeter account and reuse them as their own (If you do not want this, you can disable it in the ‘Share’ menu)
- Excel/pdf file export – this enables collaboration with anyone as exported excel and pdf file for the presentation can be easily shared with others
For more information about the above three methods of sharing results you can go to Mentimeter’s Share your results after the presentation guide.
You can also embed your Mentimeter presentation on a Canvas page to enable your students to participate in the activity asynchronously – see the ‘Use Mentimeter with Canvas’ section of our Using Mentimeter with other platforms resource page.
Reset the results
If you want to reuse the same poll or presentation without seeing previous results, you can do this by resetting the results of the previous session. Don’t worry – even when you reset results for a presentation, the previous data is stored and available to access.
Why reset the results?
You may want to reset the results of a presentation when you wish to reuse them with a different group of students. When you reuse the same presentation across multiple tutorials, it helps to maintain consistency in the design and presentation. Also, reusing the same presentation will save you time.
Another instance may be where you are using Mentimeter polls as a knowledge check tool and want to see how students’ perspectives have changed over time. You can reset the results each time and at the end of a session, return to this data to compare.
Results can be reset at two levels. You can choose to reset the results of a particular slide or the entire presentation. To learn how to reset the results, read the official help page of Mentimeter.
End voting access
If you have setup an asynchronous Mentimeter activity or if you keep voting open after a presentation, you may need to end voting after sometime.
Why end voting?
Turning off voting access will stop audience from submitting responses after the designated time or after the asynchronous activity is over. This can be important if later votes have the potential to skew the earlier results due to lack of context. Voting can be turned off for individual slides as well.
See historical data with sessions and trends
Mentimeter offers a feature where you can compare answers across different groups that have completed the same presentation. You can compare different audiences, or compare answers provided by the same audience at different times. This historical data allows you to identify trends or gather insights to inform the teaching team, and improve engagement and learning.
Why see historical data?
- To see the trends for data collection – this can help in different ways for informed decision making which is backed by real data and not assumption e.g. if participation falls as session progresses, if students constantly find something easy/challenging to workout/understand etc.
- To review – makes a positive impact and is innovative, performance review based on real student data
- To compare and contrast results – if the same presentation/polls used in multiple sessions/tutorials, determine what is working and what needs to be improved, check if there is any requirement for specific students