choose the right combination of participant identity settings for your session — whether you want to record participant names and match them to their responses, verify participants' identity through login while keeping their responses anonymous, or show everyone who answered what.

Mentimeter is anonymous by default, identified by choice. Choose the settings that match your needs, and always make sure participants know whether their answers will remain anonymous.

Each use case below combines these three settings (see How to use Verified Participants for where to find them):

In a business context, you can have secure participation via SSO login, ensure accountability and safe sharing with participant names, and tailor actions during and after your session based on individual responses.

This setup ensures fully anonymous and secure participation while maintaining verified participation. Participants are required to log in with their work email, but names are kept hidden — even the presenter cannot see who answered what. It prevents double-voting and meets compliance requirements while ensuring participant privacy and anonymity. It's exactly like the Menti experience you know, just more secure and private.

Ideal for sensitive internal meetings, employee feedback surveys, and mandatory compliance checks where anonymity and high participation are crucial.

This setup ensures controlled anonymity while maintaining accountability. Participants log in with their work email, but names are not shown in the presentation - only presenters and editors can access them in the results. Viewers and commenters cannot see the Results page, and participants remain anonymous to each other.

Ideal for tracking employee performance and well-being, allowing action without revealing identities. It also suits mandatory training and compliance sessions, where participation and completion rates need to be recorded.

This setup ensures full transparency by displaying verified names in the live presentation as well as on the Results page. Participants log in with their work email, and names are always visible, allowing everyone to see who responded what.

Ideal for town halls, official votes, and accountability-driven polls and Q&As, as well as collaborative meetings like project check-ins and brainstorming.

In higher education, you can create a safe learning space with anonymous responses and track performance and participation with SSO-verified identities.

This setup enables fully anonymous and secure participation in educational settings. Students log in through the university's SSO, verifying that they belong to the group, but their names are never shown — so answers remain anonymous in the classroom, allowing students to feel safe making mistakes in front of their peers.

It enables anonymous yet verified real-time feedback and group-level formative assessments. Educators can check in on the group's knowledge, progress toward learning outcomes, and overall needs, without focusing on individual responses.

This setup balances anonymity and accountability in an educational context. Students log in with their university credentials but remain anonymous to each other, allowing them to participate freely, while presenters and editors can see their names in the results.

Perfect for tracking attendance, participation, and performance at both group and individual levels. Educators can conduct formative assessments, monitor engagement, and ensure accountability by identifying misuse in the results.

Participant names are required: ON

Show names to participants: ON

Participants are required to log in: ON

This setup ensures full transparency and secure participation in educational settings. Participants log in with their university credentials, enabling secure access and attendance tracking. Names are visible in the live presentation and on the Results page, allowing students to see their own and others' responses.

Ideal for smaller classes, lectures, and quizzes — as well as collaborative meetings, project check-ins, and staff meetings — where students feel comfortable seeing each other's answers.

Pro tip: Turn off participant names when discussing sensitive topics, giving students a safe space to share their opinions.